yard
Other forms: yards
The grassy area right outside a house is a yard. A yard is often surrounded by a fence or marked by shrubs or other plants. As a unit of measurement, a yard is equal to three feet.
Most suburban houses have both a front yard and a back yard — sometimes side yards too. Yards might have grass, trees, bushes, play structures, gardens, patios, and decks. A completely different kind of yard is the unit of measurement that equals three feet. This three-foot yard comes from a Germanic root meaning "rod or staff," while the yard behind your house has a root that means "to enclose."
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the enclosed land around a house or other building“it was a small house with almost no yard”types:backyardthe grounds in back of a housedooryarda yard outside the front or rear door of a housefront yardthe yard in front of a house; between the house and the streetgardena yard or lawn adjoining a houseplaygroundyard consisting of an outdoor area for children's playside yardthe grounds at either side of a housetype of:fielda piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
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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”types:junkyarda field where junk is collected and stored for resaleschoolyardthe yard associated with a schooltiltyard(formerly) an enclosed field for tilting conteststype of:
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an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
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a tract of land where logs are accumulated
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an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and enginessynonyms: railway yard, railyardtypes:marshalling yarda railway yard in which trains are assembled and goods are loadedtype of:
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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 stridesynonyms: pace
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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)synonyms: cubic yardtype of:capacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unita unit of measurement of volume or capacity
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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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