yard

[ US /ˈjɑɹd/ ]
[ UK /jˈɑːd/ ]
NOUN
  1. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
  2. the enclosed land around a house or other building
    it was a small house with almost no yard
  3. a tract of land where logs are accumulated
  4. an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
  5. a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
  6. an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
  7. 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
  8. a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
  9. a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
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How To Use yard In A Sentence

  • Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
  • Not bad for someone who failed to shine at school and feared he would end up in a coalyard. The Sun
  • But Sexton found Nicks for an easy 31-yard score on fourth down with 4: 11 left to seal it, and Nicks set the receiving record with a 22-yard catch a little later from T.J. Yates, making his first appearance in relief from a broken ankle suffered in September against Virginia Tech. Newspaper Home Delivery - Subscribe Today USATODAY.com
  • I turned up at the school yard with my hippie backpack slung over one shoulder feeling pretty cool. Times, Sunday Times
  • A couple of weeks ago, while glassing four female Meneliks bushbuck two hundred yards away feeding in a tiny clearing during a pouring rain, a nice male stepped into view. Very Little Drops Dead
  • It's unhandy at 300 yards, but then there's not a lot of shooting at 300 yards over there. The .375 H&H: Fraud or Scam?
  • The layout of the enclosures, paddocks, and yards suggests an emphasis on stock-raising.
  • Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01
  • All of a sudden St. Philip's ten bells start tanging - one o’clock already - and at once the workshops and factories around the yard begin disgorging throngs of workers on their way to lunch
  • It took yards of line off a hard-set drag, and it all but pulled me off my ledge.
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