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English

Pronunciation

  • (UK): IPA: /jɑːd/,
  • (US): , IPA: /jɑːrd/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-yard.ogg


Etymology 1

geard|ġeard, from Germanic *garda-, from Indo-European *gher- ‘enclosure’. Cognate with Dutch gaard, German Garten, Swedish gård. The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin hortus, ‘garden’, Russian город, ‘town’. Compare garden.

Noun

  1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
  2. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
  3. (Jamaican) One’s house or home.


Translations
  • Arabic: (hadíeqa)
  • Chinese: 院子 (yuànzi)
  • Dutch:
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|cour|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Hof|m}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|cortile|m}}
  • Japanese: 庭 (にわ, niwa)
  • Korean: 뜰 (tteur, tteul), 마당 (madang)
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|quintal|m}}, {{t+|pt|cercado|m}}, {{t+|pt|pátio|m}}
  • Romanian: {{t-|ro|yard|m}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|двор|m|tr=dvor|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|patio|m}}
  • Swedish: , ,
  • Irish: {{t-|ga|clós|m|xs=Irish}}
  • Korean: 울안 (urAn)
Derived terms

See also Yard

Etymology 2

gerd|ġerd, from West Germanic. Cognate with Dutch gard ‘twig’, German Gerte.

Noun

  1. 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.
  2. Any spar carried aloft.
  3. A staff, rod or stick.
  4. A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK).
  5. In the Context of One-hundred dollars.


Derived terms
Translations
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|verge|f}}
  • Polish: jard
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|yarda|f}}
  • Telugu: {{t|te|గజం|sc=Telu}}

Category:Units of measure

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French

Noun

  1. yard#English|yard (unit of length)


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Italian

Noun

yard (plural yard)

  1. yard#English|yard (unit of length)


Synonyms


Category:it:Units of measure

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Yard \Yard\, n. [OE. yard, yerd, AS. geard; akin to OFries.
garda garden, OS. gardo garden, gard yard, D. gaard garden,
G. garten, OHG. garto garden, gari inclosure, Icel. gar[eth]r
yard, house, Sw. g[*a]rd, Dan. gaard, Goth. gards a house,
garda sheepfold, L. hortus garden, Gr. cho`rtos an inclosure.
Cf. Court, Garden, Garth, Horticulture, Orchard.]
[1913 Webster]
1. An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of,
or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a
barnyard.
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A yard . . . inclosed all about with sticks
In which she had a cock, hight chanticleer.
--Chaucer.
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2. An inclosure within which any work or business is carried
on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
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Liberty of the yard, a liberty, granted to persons
imprisoned for debt, of walking in the yard, or within any
other limits prescribed by law, on their giving bond not
to go beyond those limits.

Prison yard, an inclosure about a prison, or attached to
it.

Yard grass (Bot.), a low-growing grass (Eleusine Indica)
having digitate spikes. It is common in dooryards, and
like places, especially in the Southern United States.
Called also crab grass.

Yard of land. See Yardland.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Yard \Yard\, n. [OE. yerd, AS. gierd, gyrd, a rod, stick, a
measure, a yard; akin to OFries. ierde, OS. gerda, D. garde,
G. gerte, OHG. gartia, gerta, gart, Icel. gaddr a goad,
sting, Goth. gazds, and probably to L. hasta a spear. Cf.
Gad, n., Gird, n., Gride, v. i., Hastate.]
1. A rod; a stick; a staff. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
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If men smote it with a yerde. --Chaucer.
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2. A branch; a twig. [Obs.]
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The bitter frosts with the sleet and rain
Destroyed hath the green in every yerd. --Chaucer.
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3. A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc. [Obs.]
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4. A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six
inches, being the standard of English and American
measure.
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5. The penis.
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6. (Naut.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical,
tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and
extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center
to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.
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7. (Zool.) A place where moose or deer herd together in
winter for pasture, protection, etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Golden Yard, or Yard and Ell (Astron.), a popular name of
the three stars in the belt of Orion.

Under yard [i. e., under the rod], under contract. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Yard \Yard\, v. t.
To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a
yard; as, to yard cows.
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WordNet yard
n 1: a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44
centimeters; originally taken to be the average length
of a stride [syn: pace]
2: the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was
a small house with almost no yard" [syn: grounds, curtilage]
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 [syn: {railway
yard}]
5: an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
6: a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) [syn: cubic yard]
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 [syn:
thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G,
grand, thou]
Moby Dictionary
C , C-note , G , G-note , M , arena , armory , arsenal , assembly line ,
assembly plant , atomic energy plant , beleaguer , beset , besiege ,
bindery , blockade , boatyard , boilery , bookbindery , bound , box in ,
brewery , brickyard , buck , cage , cannery , cartwheel , cent , century ,
chamber , chiliad , chiliagon , chiliahedron , chiliarch , chiliarchia ,
cincture , close , close in , compass , confine , contain , container ,
coop , coop in , coop up , copper , cordon , cordon off , corral , court ,
courtyard , creamery , curtilage , dairy , defense plant ,
delimited field , dime , distillery , dockyard , dollar , dollar bill ,
encircle , enclave , enclose , enclosure , encompass , enshrine ,
factory , factory belt , factory district , feeder plant , fence in ,
field , fifty cents , fin , fish , five cents , five hundred dollars ,
five-dollar bill , five-hundred-dollar bill , five-spot , fiver ,
flour mill , fold , four bits , frogskin , grand , ground , half G ,
half a C , half dollar , half grand , hedge in , hem in , house in ,
hundred-dollar bill , impound , imprison , incarcerate , include ,
industrial park , industrial zone , iron man , jail , kennel , kilo ,
kilocycle , kilogram , kilohertz , kiloliter , kilometer , lakh ,
leaguer , list , main plant , manufactory , manufacturing plant ,
manufacturing quarter , mew , mew up , mill , millennium , millepede ,
milligram , milliliter , mint , munitions plant , myriad , nickel ,
oil refinery , one hundred thousand , packing house , pale , paling ,
park , pen , pen in , penny , plant , pocket , pottery , power plant ,
production line , push-button plant , quad , quadrangle , quarantine ,
quarter , rail in , red cent , refinery , sawbuck , sawmill , shipyard ,
shrine , shut in , shut up , silver dollar , skin , smacker , square ,
stable , subassembly plant , sugar refinery , surround , tannery ,
ten cents , ten thousand , ten-spot , tenner , theater , thou , thousand ,
thousand dollars , thousand-dollar bill , toft , twenty-dollar bill ,
twenty-five cents , two bits , two-dollar bill , two-spot , wall in ,
winery , wrap , yard up , yards


YARD. A measure of length, containing three feet, or thirty-six inches.
YARD, estates. A piece of land enclosed for the use and accommodation of the inhabitants of a house. In England it is nearly synonymous with backside. (q.v.) 1 Chitty, Pr. 176; 1 T. R. 701.
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