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Definition of 'Yard'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) yard
a unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches (0.9144 meter).

2.  yard
a cubic yard:
a yard of topsoil.

3.  yard
a long spar, supported more or less at its center, to which the head of a square sail, lateen sail, or lugsail is bent.

4.  yard
Informal. a large quantity or extent.

5.  yard
Slang. one hundred or, usu., one thousand dollars.

6.  yard
Informal.

7.  yard
in every respect; without limits.

8. (n.) yard
the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, etc.

9.  yard
a courtyard.

10.  yard
an outdoor enclosure for exercise, as by students or inmates.

11.  yard
an outdoor space surrounded by a group of buildings, as on a college campus.

12.  yard
an enclosure for livestock.

13.  yard
an enclosure within which any work or business is carried on (often used in combination):
a lumberyard.

14.  yard
an outside area used for storage, assembly, etc.

15.  yard
a system of parallel tracks, crossovers, switches, etc., where rail cars are made up into trains and where rolling stock is kept when not in use or when awaiting repairs.

16.  yard
the winter pasture or browsing ground of moose and deer.

17. (v.t.) yard
to put into, enclose, or store in a yard.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME yerd, OE geard enclosure, c. OS gard, OHG gart, ON garthr, Go gards; akin to L hortus garden, OIr gort sowed field; cf. garden)

Definition of 'Yard'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) yard, pace
a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

2. (noun) yard, grounds, curtilage
the enclosed land around a house or other building
"it was a small house with almost no yard"

3. (noun) yard
a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
"they opened a repair yard on the edge of town"

4. (noun) thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

5. (noun) cubic yard, yard
a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

6. (noun) yard
a tract of land where logs are accumulated

7. (noun) yard, railway yard, railyard
an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

8. (noun) yard
a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

9. (noun) yard
an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

Definition of 'Yard'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) yard
a grassy area outside a house
We had a barbecue in the yard.

2.  yard
a unit of measurement equal to 3 feet or 91cm
a car about a hundred yards away

3.  yard
an area outside a building for outdoor activities
a school yard

4.  yard
a small enclosed paved area at the back of a house
***a rubbish bin in the yard

Definition of 'Yard'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Yard
an inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard

2. (noun) Yard
an inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard

3. (verb) Yard
a rod; a stick; a staff

4. (verb) Yard
a branch; a twig

5. (verb) Yard
a long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc

6. (verb) Yard
a measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure

7. (verb) Yard
the penis

8. (verb) Yard
a long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship

9. (verb) Yard
to confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows

Translation of 'Yard'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (often abbreviated toyd) an old unit of length equal to 0.9144 metres.
Afrikaans: jaart	Arabic: ياردَه	Bulgarian: ярд
Brazilian: jarda	Czech: yard	German: 9144 metres=das Yard
Danish: yard	Greek: γιάρδα	Spanish: yarda
Estonian: jard	Farsi: یارد	Finnish: jaardi
French: verge	Hebrew: יְחִידַת מֵרחָק הַשָׁווָה	Hindi: गज
Croatian: jard, lakat	Hungarian: yard	Indonesian: yard
Icelandic: yard	Italian: iarda	Japanese: ヤード
Korean: 야드(길이의 단위)	Lithuanian: jardas	Latvian: jards
Malay: ela	Dutch: yard	Norwegian: yard
Polish: jard	Persian: یارد	Pashto: يارډ (وار) يا (لمبر)، (3ف
Portuguese: jarda.	Romanian: yard	Russian: ярд
Slovak: yard	Slovenian: jard	Serbian: jard
Swedish: yard	Thai: หลา (ยาวเท่ากับ 3 ฟุต หรื	Turkish: yarda
Taiwanese: 碼	Ukrainian: ярд	Urdu: گز ؛ ایک پرانا لمبائی ناپ
Vietnamese: thước Anh (0,914 mét)	Chinese: 码
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