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yard
1[ yahrd ]
noun
- a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
- 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.
- Informal. a large quantity or extent.
- Slang. one hundred or, usually, one thousand dollars.
yard
2[ yahrd ]
noun
- the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, or other structure.
- an enclosed area outdoors, often paved and surrounded by or adjacent to a building; court.
It’s been a long road trip for the Mariners, and they’ll be glad to get back to their own yard on Tuesday.
- an outdoor enclosure designed for the exercise of students, inmates, etc.:
a prison yard.
- an outdoor space surrounded by a group of buildings, as on a college campus.
- a pen or other enclosure for livestock.
- an enclosure within which any work or business is carried on (often used in combination):
navy yard; a brickyard.
- an outside area used for storage, assembly, or the like.
- 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.
- the winter pasture or browsing ground of moose and deer.
- the Yard, British. Scotland Yard ( def 2 ).
verb (used with object)
- to put into, enclose, or store in a yard.
Yard
1/ ɑː /
noun
- the Yard informal.short for Scotland Yard
yard
2/ ɑː /
noun
- a unit of length equal to 3 feet and defined in 1963 as exactly 0.9144 metre yd
- a cylindrical wooden or hollow metal spar, tapered at the ends, slung from a mast of a square-rigged or lateen-rigged vessel and used for suspending a sail
- short for yardstick
- put in the hard yards informal.to make a great effort to achieve an end
- the whole nine yards informal.everything that is required; the whole thing
yard
3/ ɑː /
noun
- a piece of enclosed ground, usually either paved or laid with concrete and often adjoining or surrounded by a building or buildings
- an enclosed or open area used for some commercial activity, for storage, etc
a railway yard
- ( in combination )
a brickyard
a shipyard
- a US and Canadian word for garden
- an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings, used for storing rolling stock, making up trains, etc
- the winter pasture of deer, moose, and similar animals
- an enclosed area used to draw off part of a herd, etc
verb
- to draft (animals), esp to a saleyard
yard
- A unit of length in the US Customary System equal to 3 feet or 36 inches (0.91 meter).
- See Table at measurement
Word History and Origins
Origin of yard1
Origin of yard2
Word History and Origins
Origin of yard1
Origin of yard2
Idioms and Phrases
- go yard, Baseball Slang. to hit a home run:
It looks as if he may go yard with this one—and he does, just inches from the foul pole!
- the whole nine yards, Informal.
- everything that is pertinent, appropriate, or available.
- in all ways; in every respect; all the way:
If you want to run for mayor, I'll be with you the whole nine yards.
More idioms and phrases containing yard
see all wool and a yard wide ; in one's own back yard ; whole nine yards .Example Sentences
“We tend to not do a very good job of making our yards friendly to native wildlife.”
Hampton rushed for 1,660 yards and 15 touchdowns for North Carolina last season.
One of the bats was found dead in a residential backyard, the other was alive in the front yard of a home.
“He ran 4.4, ran for a bunch of yards and had an unbelievable game against LSU. Single-handedly put Alabama on his shoulders.”
The problem is, when you remove 6 inches of soil from a yard, you’re likely removing some or all of the top soil, where plants germinate and get the nutrients they need to grow.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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