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Defenition of the word yard

    • Defenition of the word yard

      • A unit of length used throughout many systems equal to three feet (0,914 m), with symbol "yd".
      • A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or within the precincts of a house or other building.
      • a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
      • the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
      • an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
      • a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
      • 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"
      • the land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard at all"
      • a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
      • an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
      • the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard"
      • the enclosed land around a house or other building
      • a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
      • a tract of land where logs are accumulated

    Synonyms for the word yard

      • 1000
      • chiliad
      • cubic yard
      • G
      • grand
      • grounds
      • K
      • M
      • one thousand
      • pace
      • railway yard
      • spar
      • staff
      • stick
      • thou
      • thousand

    Meronymys for the word yard

      • chain
      • fathom
      • foot
      • ft
      • fthm
      • lea
      • perch
      • pole
      • rod
      • sailing ship
      • sailing vessel
      • yardarm

    Hyponyms for the word yard

      • backyard
      • barnyard
      • chicken run
      • chicken yard
      • churchyard
      • court
      • courtyard
      • dooryard
      • farmyard
      • fowl run
      • front yard
      • garden
      • God's acre
      • hen yard
      • junkyard
      • main yard
      • marshalling yard
      • millenary
      • playground
      • schoolyard
      • side yard
      • stockyard
      • tiltyard

    Hypernyms for the word yard

      • bar
      • capacity measure
      • capacity unit
      • cubage unit
      • cubature unit
      • cubic content unit
      • cubic measure
      • displacement unit
      • enclosure
      • field
      • large integer
      • linear measure
      • linear unit
      • parcel
      • parcel of land
      • piece of ground
      • piece of land
      • spar
      • sparring
      • surname
      • tract
      • unit of length
      • volume unit

    Idioms for the word yard

      • by the yard
      • cubic yard
      • square yard
      • yard of land

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