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YARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("yard" is a kind of...):
enclosure (a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yard"):
barnyard (a yard adjoining a barn)
chicken run; chicken yard; fowl run; hen yard (an enclosed yard for keeping poultry)
farmyard (an area adjacent to farm buildings)
stockyard (enclosed yard where cattle, pigs, horses, or sheep are kept temporarily)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("yard" is a kind of...):
spar (a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging)
Meronyms (parts of "yard"):
yardarm (either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yard"):
main yard (yard for a square mainsail)
Holonyms ("yard" is a part of...):
sailing ship; sailing vessel (a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The enclosed land around a house or other building
Example:
it was a small house with almost no yard
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("yard" is a kind of...):
field (a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yard"):
side yard (the grounds at either side of a house)
playground (yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play)
garden (a yard or lawn adjoining a house)
front yard (the yard in front of a house; between the house and the street)
dooryard (a yard outside the front or rear door of a house)
backyard (the grounds in back of a house)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
Synonyms:
railway yard; railyard; yard
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("yard" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yard"):
marshalling yard (a railway yard in which trains are assembled and goods are loaded)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
Example:
they opened a repair yard on the edge of town
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("yard" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yard"):
junkyard (a field where junk is collected and stored for resale)
schoolyard (the yard associated with a school)
churchyard; God's acre (the yard associated with a church)
tiltyard ((formerly) an enclosed field for tilting contests)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A tract of land where logs are accumulated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("yard" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
Synonyms:
cubic yard; yard
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("yard" is a kind of...):
capacity measure; capacity unit; cubage unit; cubature unit; cubic content unit; cubic measure; displacement unit; volume unit (a unit of measurement of volume or capacity)
Sense 8
Meaning:
A unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
Synonyms:
pace; yard
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("yard" is a kind of...):
linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)
Meronyms (parts of "yard"):
foot; ft (a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard)
Holonyms ("yard" is a part of...):
perch; pole; rod (a linear measure of 16.5 feet)
chain (a unit of length)
lea (a unit of length of thread or yarn)
fathom; fthm (a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth)
Sense 9
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
Synonyms:
1000; chiliad; G; grand; K; M; one thousand; thou; thousand; yard
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("yard" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yard"):
millenary (a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb yard
Context examples:
Mr. Peggotty's house being on that waste-place, and not a hundred yards out of my track, I always looked in as I went by.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In approaching the Parsonage they passed close by the stable-yard and coach-house.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
And the Lion would answer, "No. If you come in this yard, I will bite you."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Three yards away from Johnson he was, and sitting down. Nine feet!
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They had not remained in this manner long, before Elinor perceived Willoughby, standing within a few yards of them, in earnest conversation with a very fashionable looking young woman.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“I’ve had ’em in fourteen actions, and up to thirty yards you couldn’t wish a better tool.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And suddenly, not ten yards further, we beheld them stop.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Other poultry-yards in the neighbourhood also suffered.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The wound upon the dead man was, as I was able to determine with absolute confidence, fired from a revolver at the distance of something over four yards.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now we are three hundred yards away.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
