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yard

  • EN [ jɑːd]
  • US [ jɑːrd]
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English definition

    Noun

  • 1. a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

  • 2. the enclosed land around a house or other building;

    • "it was a small house with almost no yard"
  • 3. 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"
  • 4. an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

  • 5. an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

  • 6. a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

  • 7. a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

  • 8. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Example sentences

  • He piled up fallen leaves in a corner of the yard.

  • Deer yard in that area.

  • Vines straggled over the yard.

  • In spring the yard has a freshening aspect.

  • Her mother had mentioned how colorful the yard was, now that spring had arrived.

  • Our yard is spacious enough for a swimming pool.

  • There is a mass of sand in the yard.

  • All the soldiers were marshaled together in the yard, ready to march away.

  • You can play outside, but you must not leave the yard.

  • There is a mass of stones in the yard.

  • Pile the leaves in the corner of the yard.

  • The wind drifted the leaves across our yard.

  • The man rolled the barrel into the yard.

  • The lightning zigzagged through the church yard.

  • Her mother had mentioned how colourful the yard was, now that spring had arrived.

  • You can still buy cloth by the yard in this country.

  • They keep chickens in the back yard.

  • Pigs were grunting and squealing in the yard.

  • The yard was overgrown with weeds.

  • The children were playing in the yard at the front of the school.

  • At the very back of the yard, several feet from Lenny, was a wooden shack.

  • I stumbled through mud to a yard strewn with straw.

  • I saw him standing in the yard.

  • If you're sitting in the front yard, you can't hear yourself think because the traffic is getting very, very bad.

  • The grass in the yard was waist high.

  • Yesterday they continued the search, digging up the back yard of a police station.

  • Scotland Yard had assured him he was not under suspicion.

Phrase collocation

  • by the yard

    in large numbers or quantities

    • golf continues to inspire books by the yard.

  • the Yard

    (Brit.). informal term for Scotland Yard

Slang

  • yard

    • She told him she didn't like to yard on her man.

    • The guy wanted a yard just to fix a little dent in the fender.

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