YARD
\jˈɑːd], \jˈɑːd], \j_ˈɑː_d]\
Definitions of YARD
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
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a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
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a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
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an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
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an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
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a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
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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"
By Princeton University
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the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
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a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
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a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
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an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
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an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
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a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
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A rod; a stick; a staff.
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A branch; a twig.
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A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
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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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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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An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
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To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
By Oddity Software
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A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
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A rod; a stick; a staff.
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A branch; a twig.
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A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
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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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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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An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
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To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
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A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
By Noah Webster.
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A measure of length equal to three feet, thirty-six inches, or 0.9144 meter: a long piece of timber attached to the mast of a vessel to support a sail; an inclosed space before or about a house, barn, etc.; an inclosure where a special industry is carried on; as, a lumber yard. etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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An E. measure of 8 feet or 36 inches: a long beam on a mast for spreading square sails.
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An inclosed place, esp. near a building.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A measure or a measuring rod of three feet or thirty-six inches; a long, slender piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, suspended upon the mast, by which a sail is extended.
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A small, inclosed place in front of or around a house or barn; an enclosure for any purpose.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A staff; a rod; a measure of 3 feet, or 36 inches; in a ship, a long piece of timber, having a rounded taper towards each end, and slung by its centre to a mast.
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An enclosure in which any work is carried on; a small enclosed space adjoining a house or building; in Scot., a small enclosed garden.
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To put or confine cattle in a yard.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A measure of length, three feet or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English measure;-also, a rod or stick of that length; yard-stick;-the penis;-a long, slender piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, suspended upon the mast, by which a sail is extended.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A small inclosed place in front of or around a house or barn; an inclosure within which any work or business is carried on, or in which material is stored.
