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- Dictionaryyard/jɑːd/
noun
- 1. a piece of uncultivated ground adjoining a building, typically one enclosed by walls or other buildings: British "tiny houses with the lavatory in the yard"
- 2. an area of land used for a particular purpose or business: "a builder's yard" Similar
verb
- 1. store or transport (wood) in or to a timber yard: North American "he is the last logger to be using a sled for yarding logs"
- 2. put (farm animals) into an enclosure: "sheep should be yarded even in the spring"
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an area of land next to a building that usually has a hard surface and that is used for a special purpose : The house has a small yard at the back. The children played in the school yard. a prison yard. See also. backyard. barnyard. farmyard. More examples.
The meaning of YARD is a small usually walled and often paved area open to the sky and adjacent to a building : court. How to use yard in a sentence.
Yard definition: a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.. See examples of YARD used in a sentence.
yard. noun. /jɑːd/ /jɑːrd/ Idioms. (North American English) ( British English garden) a piece of land next to or around your house where you can grow flowers, fruit, vegetables, etc., usually with a lawn (= an area of grass) They have a gorgeous old oak tree in their front yard. My next-door neighbor was watering her yard. see also backyard (1)
The grassy area right outside a house is a yard. A yard is often surrounded by a fence or marked by shrubs or other plants. As a unit of measurement, a yard is equal to three feet. Most suburban houses have both a front yard and a back yard — sometimes side yards too.
1. A tract of ground next to, surrounding, or surrounded by a building or buildings. 2. a. A tract of ground, often enclosed, used for a specific business or activity. b. A baseball park. 3. An area where railroad trains are made up and cars are switched, stored, and serviced on tracks and sidings. 4. a.
A yard is a flat area of concrete or stone that is next to a building and often has a wall around it. I saw him standing in the yard. Synonyms: courtyard, court, garden, backyard More Synonyms of yard. 3. countable noun. You can refer to a large open area where a particular type of work is done as a yard. ...a railway yard. ...a ship repair yard.
a unit for measuring length, equal to 0.9144 metres or 3 feet: There's a bus stop a few hundred yards up the road. Fewer examples. The garden's about fifty yards wide. The pitch is 120 yards long and 52 yards wide. The animals were about 65 yards away.
Yard definition: A fundamental unit of length in both the US Customary System and the British Imperial System, equal to 3 feet, or 36 inches (0.9144 meter).
yard / jɑːd / n. a unit of length equal to 3 feet and defined in 1963 as exactly 0.9144 metre; a cylindrical wooden or hollow metal spar, tapered at the ends, slung from a mast of a square-rigged or lateen-rigged vessel and used for suspending a sail; the whole nine yards ⇒ informal everything that is required; the whole thing
