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yard 1
(yärd)n.
1. Abbr. yd. A fundamental unit of length in both the US Customary System and the British Imperial System, equal to 3 feet, or 36 inches (0.9144 meter). See Table at measurement.
2. Nautical A long tapering spar slung to a mast to support and spread the head of a square sail, lugsail, or lateen.
3. Informal
a. A square yard: bought 4 yards of fabric.
b. A cubic yard: dug up 100 yards of soil.
[Middle English yerde, stick, unit of measure, from Old English gerd.]
yard 2
(yärd)n.
1. A tract of ground next to, surrounding, or surrounded by a building or buildings.
2.
a. A tract of ground, often enclosed, used for a specific business or activity.
b. A baseball park.
3. An area where railroad trains are made up and cars are switched, stored, and serviced on tracks and sidings.
4.
a. A somewhat sheltered area where deer or other browsing animals congregate during the winter.
b. An enclosed tract of ground in which animals, such as chickens or pigs, are kept.
v. yarded, yard·ing, yards
v.tr.
To enclose, collect, or put into a yard.
v.intr.
To gather together into a yard: The deer are yarding up in their winter grounds.
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yard
(jɑːd)n
1. (Units) a unit of length equal to 3 feet and defined in 1963 as exactly 0.9144 metre. Abbreviation: yd
2. (Nautical Terms) a cylindrical wooden or hollow metal spar, tapered at the ends, slung from a mast of a square-rigged or lateen-rigged vessel and used for suspending a sail
3. (Tools) short for yardstick2
4. put in the hard yards informal Austral to make a great effort to achieve an end
5. the whole nine yards informal everything that is required; the whole thing
[Old English gierd rod, twig; related to Old Frisian jerde, Old Saxon gerdia, Old High German gertia, Old Norse gaddr]
yard
(jɑːd)n
1. (Building) a piece of enclosed ground, usually either paved or laid with concrete and often adjoining or surrounded by a building or buildings
2. (Commerce)
a. an enclosed or open area used for some commercial activity, for storage, etc: a railway yard.
b. (in combination): a brickyard; a shipyard.
3. (Horticulture) a US and Canadian word for garden1
4. (Railways) an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings, used for storing rolling stock, making up trains, etc
5. (Zoology) US and Canadian the winter pasture of deer, moose, and similar animals
6. (Agriculture) Austral and NZ an enclosed area used to draw off part of a herd, etc
vb (tr)
(Agriculture) to draft (animals), esp to a saleyard
[Old English geard; related to Old Saxon gard, Old High German gart, Old Norse garthr yard, Gothic gards house, Old Slavonic gradu town, castle, Albanian garth hedge]
Yard
(jɑːd)n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the Yard informal Brit short for Scotland Yard
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yard1
(yɑrd)n.
1.
a. a unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches (0.9144 meter).
b. a cubic yard: a yard of topsoil.
2. a long spar, supported more or less at its center, to which the head of a square sail, lateen sail, or lugsail is bent.
3. Informal. a large quantity or extent.
4. Slang. one hundred or, usu., one thousand dollars.
Idioms: the whole nine yards, Informal. in every respect; without limits.
[before 900; Old English gerd orig., staff, c. Old Saxon gerdia switch, Old High German gart(e)a rod; akin to gad2]
yard2
(yɑrd)n.
1. the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, etc.
2. a courtyard.
3. an outdoor enclosure for exercise, as by students or inmates.
4. an outdoor space surrounded by a group of buildings, as on a college campus.
5. an enclosure for livestock.
6. an enclosure within which any work or business is carried on (often used in combination): a lumberyard.
7. an outside area used for storage, assembly, etc.
8. a system of parallel tracks, crossovers, switches, etc., where rail cars are made up into trains and where rolling stock is kept when not in use or when awaiting repairs.
9. the winter pasture or browsing ground of moose and deer.
v.t. 10. to put into, enclose, or store in a yard.
[before 900; Middle English yerd, Old English geard enclosure, c. Old Saxon gard, Old High German gart, Old Norse garthr, Gothic gards; akin to Latin hortus garden, Old Irish gort sowed field; compare garden]
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yard
(yärd) A unit of length equal to 3 feet or 36 inches (0.91 meter). See Table at measurement.
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yard
The noun yard has two main meanings.
1. measurement
A yard is a unit of length in the imperial system of measurement. It is equal to thirty-six inches, or approximately 91.4 centimetres.
Jack was standing about ten yards away.
In Britain it is becoming more common to give measurements in metres, rather than yards.
2. area around a house
In both British and American English, a yard is an area of ground attached to a house. In British English, it is a small area behind a house, with a hard surface and usually a wall round it. In American English, it is an area on any side of a house, usually with grass growing on it. In British English, a fairly large area like this is called a garden or back garden.
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yard
Past participle: yarded
Gerund: yarding
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yard
(yd) A unit of length equal to three feet. 1 yard = 3 ft (36 in).
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| Noun | 1. | yard - a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride linear measure, linear unit - a unit of measurement of length chain - a unit of length lea - a unit of length of thread or yarn |
| 2. | yard - the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" backyard - the grounds in back of a house dooryard - a yard outside the front or rear door of a house front yard - the yard in front of a house; between the house and the street garden - a yard or lawn adjoining a house playground - yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play side yard - the grounds at either side of a house field - a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat" | |
| 3. | yard - 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" junkyard - a field where junk is collected and stored for resale schoolyard - the yard associated with a school churchyard, God's acre - the yard associated with a church tiltyard - (formerly) an enclosed field for tilting contests | |
| 4. | yard - the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 large integer - an integer equal to or greater than ten millenary - a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years) | |
| 5. |  yard - a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)capacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unit - a unit of measurement of volume or capacity | |
| 6. | yard - a tract of land where logs are accumulated | |
| 7. |  yard - an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and enginesmarshalling yard - a railway yard in which trains are assembled and goods are loaded | |
| 8. | yard - a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen main yard - yard for a square mainsail sailing ship, sailing vessel - a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts spar - a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging yardarm - either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship | |
| 9. | yard - an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) barnyard - a yard adjoining a barn enclosure - a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose farmyard - an area adjacent to farm buildings stockyard - enclosed yard where cattle, pigs, horses, or sheep are kept temporarily |
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yard
noun
1. courtyard, court, garden, backyard, quadrangle I saw him standing in the yard.
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yard
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Translations
dvůryardloděnice
gårdyard=-gårdgårdspladshave
jaardipiharaaka
dvorištejard
garîur, lóî, port-stöî, -portyard
ヤード庭
구내야드
dokijardskuģubūvētavalaukums
yard
dvoriščejardvrt
gårdtomtträdgårdyard
บริเวณบ้านหลา
sânthước Anh
yard
1 [jɑːd] N (= measure) → yarda f (91,44cm)a few yards off → a unos metros
he pulled out yards of handkerchief → sacó un enorme pañuelo
with a face a yard long → con una cara muy larga
yard
2 [jɑːd] N1. (= courtyard, farmyard) → patio m (US) (= garden) → jardín m; (for livestock) → corral m (Scol) → patio m (de recreo); (= worksite) → taller m; (for storage) → depósito m, almacén m; (for shipping, boats) → astillero m (Rail) → estación f
the Yard; Scotland Yard (Brit) oficina central de la policía de Londres
the Yard; Scotland Yard (Brit) oficina central de la policía de Londres
2. (Naut) (= spar) → verga f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
yard
[ˈjɑːrd] n (US) (= garden) → jardin m
(= measure) → yard m (= 914 mm)
(for construction work) → chantier m
builder's yard → chantier m de constructionyard sale n (US) → vide-grenier m
builder's yard → chantier m de constructionyard sale n (US) → vide-grenier m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
yard
1n
(Measure) → Yard nt (0.91 m); he can’t see a yard in front of him → er kann keinen Meter weit sehen; to buy cloth by the yard → ˜ Stoff meterweise or im Meter kaufen; he pulled out yards of handkerchief (inf) → er zog ein riesiges Taschentuch hervor (inf); to have a list a yard long of things to do (inf) → eine ellenlange Liste von Dingen haben, die man noch tun muss (inf); his guess was yards out (inf) → er lag mit seiner Schätzung völlig schief; he wrote poetry by the yard → er produzierte Gedichte am Fließband or am laufenden Meter; to go the whole nine yards (US inf) → es ganz gründlich machen
(Naut) → Rah f
yard
2n
(= worksite) → Werksgelände nt; (for storage) → Lagerplatz m; builder’s yard → Bauhof m; shipbuilding yard → Werft f; naval (dock)yard, navy yard (US) → Marinewerft f; railway yard (Brit) → Rangierbahnhof m, → Verschiebebahnhof m; goods yard, freight yard (US) → Güterbahnhof m
(Brit inf) the Yard, Scotland Yard → Scotland Yard m
(US: = garden) → Garten m
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Yard
[jɑːd] n (Brit) (fam) the Yard → Scotland Yard m invyard
1 [jɑːd] na. (measure) → iarda (91,44 cm), yard f inv
to sell sth by the yard → vendere qc al metro
yards of (fig) → chilometri di
to sell sth by the yard → vendere qc al metro
yards of (fig) → chilometri di
b. (Naut) → pennone m
yard
2 [jɑːd] n (courtyard, farmyard) → cortile m (Am) (garden) → giardino; (worksite) → cantiere m; (for storage) → depositobuilder's yard → deposito di materiale da costruzione
back yard (Brit) → cortile sul retro (Am) → giardino sul retro
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
yard1
(jaːd) noun (often abbreviated to yd) an old unit of length equal to 0.9144 metres.
yard2
(jaːd) noun1. an area of (enclosed) ground beside a building. Leave your bicycle in the yard; a school-yard; a courtyard.
2. an area of enclosed ground used for a special purpose. a shipyard; a dockyard.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
yard
→ سَاحَة, يَارِدَة dvůr, yard have, yard Hof, Yard γιάρδα, προαύλιο patio, yarda jaardi, piha cour, yard dvorište, jard cortile, iarda ヤード, 庭 구내, 야드 binnenplaats, yard plass, yard jard, podwórko jarda, quintal двор, ярд gård, yard บริเวณบ้าน, หลา avlu, yarda sân, thước Anh 码, 院子Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009