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US
/ˈjɑɹd/
]
[ UK /jˈɑːd/ ]
[ UK /jˈɑːd/ ]
NOUN
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
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the enclosed land around a house or other building
it was a small house with almost no yard - a tract of land where logs are accumulated
- an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
- a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
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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 - a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
- a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
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
- I turned up at the school yard with my hippie backpack slung over one shoulder feeling pretty cool. Times, Sunday Times
- 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
- 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?
- Once upon a time there was an old sow of impeccable reputation who lived a quiet life inside a busy farmyard. Times, Sunday Times
- The layout of the enclosures, paddocks, and yards suggests an emphasis on stock-raising.
- Going into the large yard, he cut two oaken wedges, took a new wheel, and drove a wedge firmly into one end of its axle-box. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
- 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
