Yard

Definition: Yard

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. An area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines.

5. An enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock).

6. A unit of volume (as for sand or gravel).

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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "yard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Aerospace

Engineering & Technology

Finance

Food & Agriculture

Mining

Shipping

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Yard

Abode

Street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda, board walk, embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd, close, yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews.

Inclosure

Pen, fold; pen fold, in fold, sheep fold; paddock, pound; corral; yard; net, seine net.

Interment

Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence.

Length

Line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain, link; arpent, handbreadth, jornada, kos, vara.

Mart

Tobacco shop, tobacco store, tobacconists, cigar store, hardware store, jewelry shop, bookstore, liquor store, gun shop, rod and reel shop, furniture store, drugstore, chemist's, florist, flower shop, shoe store, stationer, stationer's, electronics shop, telephone store, music store, record shop, fur store, sporting goods store, video store, video rental store; lumber store, lumber yard, home improvements store, home improvement center; gas station, auto repair shop, auto dealer, used car dealer.

Auction; flea market; yard sale, garage sale; pawn shop; antiques store; second-hand store, second time around shop, thrift shop.

Measurement

Measure, yard measure, standard, rule, foot rule, compass, calipers; gage, gauge; meter, line, rod, check; dividers; velo.

Workshop

Hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary; armory; laboratory, lab, refinery; cannery; power plant; beauty parlor;beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery; furnace; vineyard.

Crosswords: Yard

Afrikaan (yard), Czech (yard), Dutch (yard), French (yard), German (yard), Hungarian (yard), Italian (yard), Norwegian (yard), Swedish (yard, yd).

Next, fourteen dumptrucks stolen from a yard in Staten Island (Die Hard: With a Vengeance; writing credit: Jonathan Hensleigh)

Heh, yeah, right, lady: An elephant ran through your front yard. Okay (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Well, of course he was then promptly beaten up by every kid in the school yard. Look, the point is, we probably learned more about Eberts when he was Arnaud, than we ever would've from Eberts himself (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner)

'ntil you've spent some time in the yard with those animals you have no idea what happens in here (The Last Castle; writing credit: David Scarpa)

Why don't you clean your yard up (Sanford and Son; writing credit: Earl Barret; Ted Bergman)

Were you in the yard with your wife and children (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson)

A house, a yard, a neighborhood (One Voice; performing artist: Billy Gilman)

Standing in the back yard reminding me and you (Meet In The Middle; performing artist: Diamond Rio)

Drove it through somebody's yard, dove into they swimmin pool (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

I heard about nights out in the school yard (FOUND OUT ABOUT YOU; performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard. (references; author: unknown)

People who want by the yard, but try by the inch, should be kicked by the foot! (references; author: unknown)

Man is a peculiar creature. He spends a fortune making his home insect-proof and air-conditioned, and then eats in the yard. (references; author: unknown)

The Longest Yard (1974)

New Scotland Yard (1972)

Yard Limit (1970)

Fantômas contre Scotland Yard (1966)

Maskenball bei Scotland Yard - Die Geschichte einer unglaublichen Erfindung (1963)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Back Yard Burgers, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Deer-Proofing Your Yard & Garden (reference)

• Scotts Lawns: Your Guide to a Beautiful Yard (reference)

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Periodicals

• Wasatch Yard And Garden (reference)

• Yard & Garden (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Gladiator Challenge: School Yard Brawls (reference)

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Music

• 2 Foot Yard (reference)

• Thomas & Friends: Thomas Train Yard Tracks (reference)

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High Tech

• ABACUS Microsoft Train Simulator: Rail Yard Collection (Windows) (reference)

• LaserLyte 500 Yard Laser Pointer (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• BabyGo Portable Play Yard - Majestic (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Car junk yard in West Palm Beach, Florida. Potential mosquito breeding site. Credit: CDC.

An international team of astronomers has uncovered a galaxy in our own cosmic back yard. ... Credit: NASA.

A view of Charlestown from the cemetery on Copp's Hill in Boston. Bunker Hill Monument on Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill further to the north are seen in the central part of the image. Buildings of the U.S. Navy Yard are seen on the extreme right. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines.

"The Navy Yard - Puget Sound". In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 142. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Sponge yard at Key West, showing the sponges drying. In: "The Sponge Fishery of Florida in 1900" by John N. Cobb. Report of the Commissioner for the Year Ending June 30, 1902. P. 166, Plate 7. Credit: Fisheries.

U.S. Air Force Academy Falcons' fullback Nate Beard evades Fresno State Bulldogs' Bryce McGill for a seven yard gain during this play in the first quarter of the Silicon Valley Football Classic Dec. 30. The Falcons went on to win the game 37-34. (Air Forc.

Runoff from this livestock yard may enter a nearby stream and degrade the water qulaity. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Watering yard in arid Clark County, NV. Credit: Lynn Betts.

4H members pick up trash from a school yard. Credit: USDA.

Hogs being unloaded into stock yard. Credit: USDA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

An oblong garden, half a yard longer than wide, consists entirely of a gravel walk, spirally arranged, a yard wide and 3630 yards long

The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands

The first thing that he noticed in this yard was a door of the sixteenth century, which seemed like an arch, everything having fallen down around it.

All you know about poetry is what you wrote up on the slates in the yard and were going to be sent to the loft for.

Junk piled up in a yard.

The master horse ordered a sorrel nag, one of his servants, to untie the largest of these animals, and take him into the yard.

No cockerels to crow nor hens to cackle in the yard.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The dead bat was recovered from the yard and tested--it had rabies. (references)

Physical activities like brisk walking, cycling, swimming, and yard work lower the risk of both stroke and heart disease. (references)

Affected people often omit small words such as "is," "and," and "the." For example, a person with Broca's aphasia may say, "Walk dog" meaning, "I will take the dog for a walk." The same sentence could also mean "You take the dog for a walk," or "The dog walked out of the yard," depending on the circumstances. (references)

Business

The concessionaires need to have their own yard tractors, trailers, liquid cargo pipes, and liquid cargo bulk plants. (references)

Waigaoqiao will virtually double China’s capacity to build super tankers (VLCCs). The yard is slated for completion in 2003, despite recent start-up delays. (references)

Cotton cloth accounts for the largest part of the country’s cloth production, followed by cloth made of Polyester Filament Yard (PFY), polyester staple, rayon, acrylic and nylon (NFY). (references)

Civil Liberties

Somalia

The refugees were living in an open yard at the Hamar school at year's end. (references)

Economic History

Azerbaijan

The structures will be built at the Baku year of Shelfproyektstroi, a subsidiary of SOCAR after the refurbishment of the yard. (references)

Bahrain

Other plants include the Arab Iron and Steel Company's iron ore pelletizing plant (4 million tons annually) and a shipbuilding and repair yard. (references)

Human Rights

Madagascar

Prison cells average less than 1 square yard of space per inmate. (references)

Guyana

TSS officers followed Gonsalves to the yard where he was hiding and confronted him. (references)

Zambia

The Government permitted forensic specialists and a team of advisors from Scotland Yard to participate in an investigation in response to a request from the Kaunda family. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

In February a hand grenade was thrown into the yard of an ethnic Serb family near Drnis in the Dalmatia region; no arrests were made. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "yard": back yard ♦ barn yard manure ♦ bone yard ♦ brick yard ♦ builder's yard ♦ buy cloth by the yard ♦ calculations by the yard ♦ Charlestown Navy Yard ♦ chicken yard ♦ clear a yard of rubbish ♦ coal yard ♦ cubic yard ♦ deer yard ♦ farm yard ♦ Fold yard ♦ fold yard manure ♦ freight yard ♦ front yard ♦ Golden Yard ♦ goods yard ♦ grave yard ♦ have a face a yard long ♦ in one's own back yard ♦ in the yard ♦ Jack yard ♦ junk yard ♦ Kail yard ♦ kale yard ♦ knacker's yard ♦ Liberty of the yard ♦ log yard ♦ lumber yard ♦ main yard ♦ marshalling yard ♦ moose yard ♦ navy yard ♦ Navy Yard City ♦ new Scotland Yard ♦ poultry yard ♦ prison yard ♦ processing yard ♦ railway yard ♦ rope yard ♦ sail yard ♦ scotland yard ♦ scrap yard ♦ shipbuilding yard ♦ side yard ♦ small yard ♦ square yard ♦ stack yard ♦ standard yard ♦ storage yard ♦ switch yard ♦ switching yard ♦ tan yard ♦ timber yard ♦ To brace a yard ♦ To man a yard ♦ To traverse a yard ♦ under yard ♦ words a yard long ♦ yard and Ell ♦ yard bird ♦ yard blue ♦ yard goods ♦ yard grass ♦ yard marker ♦ yard measure ♦ yard of land ♦ yard of sail ♦ yard sale ♦ yard with a through passage. Additional references.

Beginning with "yard": yard-arm, yard-arms, yard-deep, Yard-ferry, yard-high, yard-long, yard-long bean, yard-master, yard-measure, yard-square, yard-stick, yard-wand.

Ending with "yard": back-yard, boat-yard, five-yard, inn-yard, six-yard, stable-yard, stack-yard, thirty-yard, three-yard.

Containing "yard": back-yard house, eight-yard-high.

Afrikaans

yard. (various references)

Albanian

vathë (corral, Cote, ear ring, eardrop, fold, pen, Pinfold, run, runway, sheep pen, sheep-cote, sheepfold, stockyard), shulicë, oborr (court, Dooryard, Garth), kantier, jard (yardstick), depo (buttery, closet, deposit, depository, depot, magazine, repertory, repository, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strongroom, war house, warehouse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فناء (cessation of being, court, courtyard, dissolution, dooryard, dying, patio, precinct), ‏ياردة وحدة قياس, ‏مرعى الظباء الشتوي, ‏حوض لصنع السفن, ‏حظيرة (cowshed, enclosure, pen, stockade, stockyard), ‏ساحة (field, piazza, site, square), ‏زريبة (corral, cote, cowshed, crib, fold, house, pen, pound, shed, stable), ‏عارضة الشارع, ‏الزريبة. (various references)

Basque

labur (court, short), atari (court, short). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ярд, кубически ярд, квадратен ярд, градина (garden, grounds, pleasance), висока тясна чаша, парк (fleet, gardens, grounds, pleasance, pleasure ground, rolling stock, stock), двор (court, courtyard). (various references)

Catalan

pati (court, courtyard). (various references)

Chinese 

碼 (a weight, number, pile, stack), 廠子 (depot), 廠 (cliff, depot, factory, slope, workhouse, works), 围场. (various references)

Cornish

lath. (various references)

Czech

yard, zahrada (flower garden, garden, gardens, Garth), zahrádka (allotment, rack), ráhno, nádvoří (at the close of the day, courtyard, patio, quadrangle), dvorek, dvùr (court, courtyard, farmyard). (various references)

Danish

gårdsplads (court, courtyard), gård (court, courtyard, estate, farm, property, ranch). (various references)

Dutch

yard, ra (aerial, antenna, Ra, Re), erf (court, courtyard). (various references)

Esperanto

velstango, korto (court, courtyard), jardo. (various references)

Faeroese

tún (court, courtyard), rá, garður (court, courtyard, rampart). (various references)

Farsi 

یارد(63اینچ یا3فوت), محوطه یامیدان , محصورکردن (Close, Compass, Inclose, Pale, Wall), واحدمقیاس طول انگلیس . (various references)

Finnish

piha (court, courtyard). (various references)

French

cour, yard, dépôt. (various references)

Frisian

ra, erf (court, courtyard, stichwort). (various references)

German

Hof (barn, corona, court, courtyard, farm, farmyard, halo, playground, quad, quadrangle, schoolyard, Square), Yard (yd), Lagerplatz (campsite), Hofraum (court, courtyard). (various references)

Greek 

προαύλιο (court, forecourt), αυλή (court, courtyard). (various references)

Hebrew 

חצר (courtyard, enclosure). (various references)

Hungarian

yard, udvar (backyard, court, courtyard, run, to court), telep (battery, bed, estate, pile, plantation, ranch, settlement, thalamus). (various references)

Indonesian

yar, pekarangan, langsiran, halaman (page, premises). (various references)

Irish

slat. (various references)

Italian

cortile (backyard, court, courtyard, quad, quadrangle), iarda (hiatus). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

モンテカルロ法 (jacket, Jacobi, Monroe, Monroe effect, Monte Carlo method, Monteverdi, Montgomery, my Paris, subculture of teenage girls ca. 1999, Yakult, Yalta, Yamaha, yank, Yankee, Yankeeism, yard sale, young, young adult, young Mrs, young power, young town, young traditional, young urban professional, younger generation, yuppie), 帆桁 (boom). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ヤード , ヤール , ほげた (boom). (various references)

Korean 

야드. (various references)

Manx

stundayrt (norm, standard, yard measure). (various references)

Norwegian

yard, gårdsplass (farmyard). (various references)

Occitan

cort (court, short). (various references)

Papiamen

yarda, curá (court, courtyard). (various references)

Pig Latin

yarday.(various references)

Portuguese

pátio (concourse, court, courtyard, garth, out-of-door, quadrangle, terrace), jarda (yd), terreiro (court, courtyard, terrace), quintal (backyard, court, courtyard, garden, hundredweight, kitchen garden, pleasure-ground, quintal). (various references)

Romanian

curte (address, addresses, attention, attentions, bar, close, court, courtship, courtyard, enclosure, forecourt, love making, sport, stack yard, suit). (various references)

Russian 

ярд (yd, yds). (various references)

Scottish

slat (a rod, rod, switch, twig, wand). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

radilište (work site), pregrada za stoku, jard, dvorište (court, courtyard). (various references)

Shona

chivanze. (various references)

Sicilian

curtili. (various references)

Sotho

jareteng (in the yard). (various references)

Spanish

patio (area, areaway, Causey, court, courtyard, farmyard, forecourt, Grove, patio, playground, quad, quadrangle, schoolyard, stalls), corral (barnyard, chick-run, corral, court, pen, poultry yard, shed for sheep, stable), yarda (yd), grave (acute, alarming, bad, court, courtyard, deep, demure, desperate, difficult, dignified, grave, grievous, grim, gross, heavy, important, low, lower, nasty, serious, severe, weighty). (various references)

Sranan

prasi (court, courtyard). (various references)

Swahili

ua (bloom, court, courtyard, flower). (various references)

Swedish

gård (areaway, court, courtyard, dooryard, enclosure, estate, farm, farmyard, homestead, inclosure, property, ranch), rå (advise, bestial, boundary, brute, churlish, coarse, counsel, crude, damp and chilly, fairy, foul-mouthed, fresh, gross, primitive, raw, rough, sprite, tough, uncooked, vulgar). (various references)

Thai

อู่ต่อเรือ (navy yard). (various references)

Turkish

yarda, avlu (atrium, close, court, courtyard, Dooryard, forecourt, Garth, quad, quadrangle). (various references)

Turkmen 

mellek, howly, daю (exterior, far). (various references)

Ukrainian

ярд, скотний двір (barn, barn-yard, stockyard), склад (cast, cellar, composition, compound, depository, depot, make up, repertory, storage, store, syllable), сортувальна станція, сад (garden), рея, трелювати, кладовище (cemetery, churchyard, necropolis), город (back yard, garden, herbary), морський арсенал, заганяти худобу, лісний склад, п'ядь (span), переходити на зимове пасовисько, двір (court). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kho (budget, repository, stock, stock-in-trade, storehouse), Iat. (various references)

Welsh

llathen, llath (wand), iard, clos (pair of breeches), buarth. (various references)

Zulu

iyaladi, iliyaladi, ilijaladi, ijaladi. (various references)

antenna. (various references)

geard. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "yard": yardage, yardages, yardarm, yardarms, yardbird, yardbirds, yarded, yarding, yardland, yardlands, yardman, yardmaster, yardmasters, yardmen, yards, yardstick, yardsticks, yardwand, yardwands, yardwork, yardworks. (additional references)

Words ending with "yard": backyard, barnyard, bayard, beeyard, boatyard, boneyard, boyard, brickyard, churchyard, coalyard, courtyard, deeryard, dockyard, dooryard, farmyard, foreyard, graveyard, halyard, haulyard, junkyard, kailyard, kaleyard, lanyard, lumberyard, lyard, schoolyard, shipyard, steelyard, stockyard, switchyard, tanyard, tiltyard, vineyard, willyard. (additional references)

Words containing "yard": backyards, barnyards, bayards, beeyards, boatyards, boneyards, boyards, brickyards, churchyards, coalyards, courtyards, deeryards, dockyards, dooryards, farmyards, foreyards, graveyards, halyards, haulyards, junkyards, kailyards, kaleyards, lanyards, lumberyards, schoolyards, shipyards, steelyards, stockyards, switchyards, tanyards, tiltyards, vineyardist, vineyardists, vineyards. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Yard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cyard, Eymard, Eyraud, iard, jard, kard, lyard, Pypard, Qadr, rard, vard, yad, Yadm, yaid, yaird, yald, yar, yara, yarb, yarde, yarg, yarl, yarm, yarp, Yarr, Yarrg, yarri, yars, yart, yarv, yarz, yazd, yeard, Yedra, yerr, yert, yird, yirt, ylar, yorb, yord, yorg, yorp, yorq, yorx, y'r, yrd, yred, yur, yurd, yzr, zard. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dray.

-1 letter: day, dry, rad, ray, rya, yar.

-2 letters: ad, ar, ay, ya.

+1 letter: dairy, deary, deray, diary, drays, dryad, hardy, hydra, lardy, lyard, pardy, randy, rayed, ready, tardy, yaird, yards.

+2 letters: aridly, bawdry, bayard, boyard, brandy, brayed, bready, byroad, darkly, datary, daubry, dearly, defray, denary, derays, drably, draffy, drafty, draggy, drapey, drawly, drayed, dreamy, dreary, dryads, frayed, grayed, hardly, hydrae, hydras, hydria, myriad, parody, prayed, redbay, sudary, tawdry, yairds, yarded, yarned.