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Words Described by "Yard"

  1. line
  2. dash
  3. run
  4. pass
  5. manure
  6. goal
  7. arm
  8. drive
  9. touchdown
  10. return

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. front
  2. court
  3. cubic
  4. stable
  5. own
  6. small
  7. large
  8. back
  9. farm
  10. main

What Google Knows

The yard is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it has been by international agreement standardized as exactly 0.9144 meter. A distance of 1,760 yards is equal to 1 mile. The US survey yard is very slightly longer.

Related Definition

  1. yard:

    n A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.

    n (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.

    n An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.

    n A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.

    n (Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.

    v (transitive) To confine to a yard.

    n Units of similar composition or length in other systems.

    n (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.

    n (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.

    n (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.

    n (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.

    n (obsolete, medicine) A penis.

    n (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.

    n (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.

    n (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.

    n (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.

    v (intransitive, humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.

    n (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.

    n Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard

    n (Jamaica) Jamaica

    n (figurative, metonymically) The Metropolitan Police Service

    n A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).

    n (informal) Ellipsis of square yard.. a unit of area (common with textiles)

    n (informal) Ellipsis of cubic yard.. a unit of volume (common in mining and earthmoving)


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