yard

yard: noun

1 piece of land next to a building

ADJECTIVE

▪ front

▪ back (usually backyard), rear (esp. BrE)

▪ church (usually churchyard), farm (usually farmyard), kitchen (BrE), school (esp. AmE)

▪ kids playing in the school yard

▪ livery (BrE), stable

▪ exercise, prison

▪ The prisoners were taken to the exercise yard.

VERB + YARD

▪ enter, leave

▪ He entered the yard through the back gate.

▪ I left our school yard at recess and ran home.

▪ enclose, surround

▪ The yard was enclosed by a high wire fence.

2 (AmE) piece of land next to a house with grass ⇨ See also ↑garden

ADJECTIVE

▪ back (usually backyard), front, side

▪ big, huge, large

▪ small, tiny

▪ fenced

▪ I have a well fenced yard far away from roads.

VERB + YARD

▪ mow, rake, water

▪ My next-door neighbor was watering her yard.

▪ landscape

▪ I've landscaped my tiny front yard with tall grasses.

▪ decorate

▪ The outside yard was decorated with orange lights.

▪ fence

▪ The front yard is fenced for privacy.

▪ cover

▪ Most of the yard was covered with leaves.

▪ cross

▪ We crossed the yard to my house.

▪ enter, leave

▪ overlook

▪ the huge bay window overlooking the yard

YARD + NOUN

▪ sale

▪ I held a yard sale to get rid of my old stuff.

▪ sign

▪ The first Bush-Cheney yard sign appeared on my street last week.

PREPOSITION

▪ in yard

▪ She was standing in the yard.

PHRASES

▪ the corner of the yard, the edge of the yard, the middle of the yard, the side of the yard

3 area used for a special purpose

ADJECTIVE

▪ lumber (usually lumberyard) (AmE), timber (BrE)

▪ wood from a lumber yard

▪ freight, marshalling (BrE), rail, railroad (AmE), railway (BrE)

▪ boat (usually boatyard), ship (usually shipyard), shipbuilding

▪ breaker's (BrE), junk (usually junkyard) (esp. AmE), salvage (esp. AmE), scrap (usually scrapyard) (esp. BrE)

▪ The steam tug was on her way to the breaker's yard at the end of her naval service.

▪ salvage yards with cars that are being sold for parts

▪ repair, storage

PHRASES

▪ a builder's yard, the knacker's yard (both BrE)

▪ a horse condemned to the knacker's yard

▪ The company is heading for the knacker's yard. (figurative)

4 unit of measurement

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Synonyms:

Enclosure, compound / Three feet, thirty-six inches

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yard — yard … Dictionnaire des rimes
yard — [ jard ] n. m. • 1669; mot angl. ♦ Mesure de longueur anglo saxonne (0,914 m). ⇒ verge. ● yard nom masculin (anglais yard) Unité principale de longueur (symbole yd) du système de mesures coutumier dans les pays anglo saxons, valant 0,914 m. yard… … Encyclopédie Universelle
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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Yard — 〈n.; s, s od. ; Abk.: yd.〉 engl. u. nordamerikanisches Längenmaß, 0,91 m [engl., „Gerte, Messrute“; verwandt mit Gerte] * * * Yard [engl.: jɑ:d ], das; s, s <aber: 4 Yard[s]> [engl. yard, eigtl. = Maßstab; Rute]: Längeneinheit in… … Universal-Lexikon
yard — yard1 [yärd] n. [ME yerde < OE gierd, rod, staff, yard measure, akin to obs. Ger gerte, rod < IE * g̑hazdho , var. of base * ghasto , rod, pole > L hasta, pole, spear] 1. a) a unit of length in the FPS system, equal to 3 feet or 36… … English World dictionary
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} … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
yard — W2S2 [ja:d US ja:rd] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(measure)¦ 2¦(enclosed area)¦ 3¦(garden)¦ 4¦(back of house)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Sense: 1; Origin: Old English geard, gierd stick ] [Sense: 2 4; Origin: Old E … Dictionary of contemporary English
yard — Ⅰ. yard [1] ► NOUN 1) a unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet (0.9144 metre). 2) a square or cubic yard, especially of sand or other building materials. 3) a cylindrical spar slung across a ship s mast for a sail to hang from. ● by the yard Cf.… … English terms dictionary
Yard — Yard, v. t. To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
yard — [ jard ] noun count *** 1. ) AMERICAN an area around a house that is used for sitting, playing, and growing plants in. British garden a ) an enclosed area around a large building where people can do activities outside: a school/prison yard b ) a… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
yard — ‘enclosed area’ [OE] and yard ‘three feet’ [OE] are distinct words, both of ancient ancestry. The former probably goes back ultimately to Indo European *ghorto , which also produced Latin cohors ‘court’ (source of English cohort and court) and… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

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