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[yahrd] Pronunciation Key,
[yahrd] Pronunciation Key, –noun
—Idiom
| 1. | a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter. |
| 2. | Nautical. 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. | yard-of-ale. |
| 4. | Informal. a large quantity or extent. |
| 5. | Slang. one hundred or, usually, one thousand dollars. |
| 6. | the whole nine yards, Informal.
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[Origin: bef. 900; ME yerd(e), OE (Anglian) gerd orig., straight twig; c. D gard, G Gerte rod]
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[yahrd] Pronunciation Key,
[yahrd] Pronunciation Key, –noun
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, or other structure. |
| 2. | an enclosed area outdoors, often paved and surrounded by or adjacent to a building; court. |
| 3. | an outdoor enclosure designed for the exercise of students, inmates, etc.: a prison yard. |
| 4. | an outdoor space surrounded by a group of buildings, as on a college campus. |
| 5. | a pen or other enclosure for livestock. |
| 6. | an enclosure within which any work or business is carried on (often used in combination): navy yard; a brickyard. |
| 7. | an outside area used for storage, assembly, or the like. |
| 8. | Railroads. a system of parallel tracks, crossovers, switches, etc., where cars are switched and made up into trains and where cars, locomotives, and other rolling stock are kept when not in use or when awaiting repairs. |
| 9. | a piece of ground set aside for cultivation; garden; field. |
| 10. | the winter pasture or browsing ground of moose and deer. |
| 11. | the Yard, British. Scotland Yard (def. 2). |
| 12. | to put into, enclose, or store in a yard. |
[Origin: bef. 900; ME yerd, OE geard enclosure; c. D gaard garden, ON garthr yard, Goth gards house, L hortus garden, OIr gort field; akin to garden]
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| yard 1
(yärd) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English yerde, stick, unit of measure, from Old English gerd.] |
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| yard 2
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n.
v. yarded, yard·ing, yards v. tr. To enclose, collect, or put into or as if into a yard. v. intr. To be gathered into or as if into a yard. [Middle English, from Old English geard; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
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yard (1)
yard (1)
"ground around a house," O.E. geard "enclosure, garden, court, house, yard," from P.Gmc. *garda (cf. O.N. garðr "enclosure, garden, yard;" O.Fris. garda, Du. gaard, O.H.G. garto, Ger. Garten "garden;" Goth. gards "house," garda "stall"), from PIE *gharto-, from base *gher- "to grasp, enclose" (cf. O.E. gyrdan "to gird," Skt. ghra- "house," Alb. garth "hedge," L. hortus "garden," Phrygian -gordum "town," Gk. khortos "pasture," O.Ir. gort "field," Bret. garz "enclosure, garden," and second element in L. cohors "enclosure, yard, company of soldiers, multitude"). Lith. gardas "pen, enclosure," O.C.S. gradu "town, city," and Rus. gorod, -grad "town, city" belong to this group, but linguists dispute whether they are independent developments or borrowings from Gmc. Yard sale is attested by 1976. M.E. yerd "yard-land" (c.1450) was a measure of about 30 acres. Yardbird "convict" is 1956, from the notion of prison yards; earlier it meant "basic trainee" (World War II armed forces slang).
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yard (2)
yard (2)
"measure of length," O.E. gerd (Mercian), gierd (W.Saxon) "rod, stick, measure of length," from W.Gmc. *gazdijo, from P.Gmc. *gazdaz "stick, rod" (cf. O.S. gerda, O.Fris. ierde, Du. gard "rod;" O.H.G. garta, Ger. gerte "switch, twig," O.N. gaddr "spike, sting, nail"), from PIE *gherdh- "staff, pole" (cf. L. hasta "shaft, staff"). In O.E. it was originally a land measure of roughly 5 meters (a length later called rod, pole or perch). Modern measure of "three feet" is attested from 1377 (earlier rough equivalent was the ell of 45 inches, and the verge). In M.E., the word also was a euphemism for "penis" (cf. "Love's Labour's Lost," V.ii.676). Slang meaning "one hundred dollars" first attested 1926, Amer.Eng. Yardstick is 1816. The nautical yard-arm (1553) retains the original sense of "stick." In 19c. British naval custom, it was permissible to begin drinking when the sun was over the yard-arm.
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| yard | |
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. | the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 |
| 5. | a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) [syn: cubic yard] |
| 6. | a tract of land where logs are accumulated |
| 7. | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
| 8. | a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen |
| 9. | an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) |
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| yard
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A unit of length in the US Customary System equal to 3 feet or 36 inches (0.91 meter). See Table at measurement.
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Yard
Slang for one billion units in currency.
Investopedia Commentary
The term also refers to "milliard," which is a European term for 1,000 million (a billion).
If a person wanted to buy one billion U.S. dollars, he or she might say, "I would like to buy a yard of U.S. dollars." By using the word "yard" in place of "billion," the person ensures that the counter-party will not misunderstand billion for "million" or "trillion."
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Navy Yard City, WA (CDP, FIPS 48225) Location: 47.55160 N, 122.66695 W
Population (1990): 2905 (1330 housing units)
Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water)
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Yard
Yard\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
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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. If men smote it with a yerde. --Chaucer. 2. A branch; a twig. [Obs.] The bitter frosts with the sleet and rain Destroyed hath the green in every yerd. --Chaucer. 3. A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc. [Obs.] 4. A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure. 5. The penis. 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. 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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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.]1. An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard. A yard . . . inclosed all about with sticks In which she had a cock, hight chanticleer. --Chaucer. 2. An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard. 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.
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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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