yard
IPA: jˈɑrd
noun
- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
- An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
- (Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.
- Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
- (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
- (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
- (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
- (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
- (obsolete, medicine) A penis.
- (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
- (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
- (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.
- (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.
- (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
- Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard
- (Jamaica) Jamaica
- (figurative, metonymically) The Metropolitan Police Service
- A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
- (informal) Ellipsis of square yard.. a unit of area (common with textiles)
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic yard.. a unit of volume (common in mining and earthmoving)
verb
- (transitive) To confine to a yard.
- (intransitive, humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.
Examples of "yard" in Sentences
- He was interred at the yard.
- Greenery was planted in the yards.
- They trained the horse in the yard.
- A yard is to the east of the station.
- It was delightful to laze in the yard.
- The residue is stored in the back yard.
- Dizzy is portrayed as the youngest in the yard.
- The grave yard is called the Evergreen Cemetery.
- An extraordinary shot to the deepest part of the yard
- Demand for these vessels outstripped the capabilities of the yard.