Definitions for yards
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1. yards(Noun)

   The totality of the sailing rig.

   Her yards were bare and cockabill.

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1. Yards

   Yards is an unincorporated community straddling the border between Tazewell County, Virginia and Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. Yards is located on the Bluestone River, 4 miles northwest of Bluefield, Virginia. Yards had a post office on the Virginia side of the border from 1888 until May 28, 1994. The community was named for its railroad yards.

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1. yards

   See DOCKYARDS.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'yards' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2810

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'yards' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2868

Anagrams for yards »

1. drays, Dryas, dryas

How to pronounce yards?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of yards in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of yards in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of yards in a Sentence

1. Dennis Koenig:

   Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards.

2. Randy Dawson:

   I saw ... the fire start down the road from us about 200 yards and race up the hill and right by our house.

3. Notre Dame:

   This is not pro I, lets run it up inside and play great defense, theyre still playing fundamentally sound defense, but with the offenses as they are today, you know, its very difficult not to give up some yards.

4. Michael Haas:

   My house was the only light they could see, they tried to make it to our house and made it within 100 yards.

5. Michael Kimmelman:

   Hudson Yards glorifies a kind of surface spectacle — as if the peak ambitions of city life were consuming luxury goods and enjoying a smooth, seductive, mindless materialism.

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