The-yard

noun
1.
the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, or other structure.
2.
an enclosed area outdoors, often paved and surrounded by or adjacent to a building; court.
3.
an outdoor enclosure designed for the exercise of students, inmates, etc.:
a prison yard.
4.
an outdoor space surrounded by a group of buildings, as on a college campus.
5.
a pen or other enclosure for livestock.
6.
an enclosure within which any work or business is carried on (often used in combination):
navy yard; a brickyard.
7.
an outside area used for storage, assembly, or the like.
8.
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.
9.
a piece of ground set aside for cultivation; garden; field.
10.
the winter pasture or browsing ground of moose and deer.
11.
the Yard, British. Scotland Yard (def 2).
verb (used with object)
12.
to put into, enclose, or store in a yard.
noun
1.
a unit of length equal to 3 feet and defined in 1963 as exactly 0.9144 metre yd
2.
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
3.
short for yardstick (sense 2)
4.
(Austral, informal) put in the hard yards, to make a great effort to achieve an end
5.
(informal) the whole nine yards, everything that is required; the whole thing
noun
1.
a piece of enclosed ground, usually either paved or laid with concrete and often adjoining or surrounded by a building or buildings
2.

an enclosed or open area used for some commercial activity, for storage, etc: a railway yard
(in combination): a brickyard, a shipyard

3.
a US and Canadian word for garden (sense 1)
4.
an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings, used for storing rolling stock, making up trains, etc
5.
(US & Canadian) the winter pasture of deer, moose, and similar animals
6.
(Austral & NZ) an enclosed area used to draw off part of a herd, etc
7.
(NZ) short for saleyard, stockyard
verb (transitive)
8.
to draft (animals), esp to a saleyard
noun
1.
(Brit, informal) the Yard, short for Scotland Yard
yard
(yärd)
A unit of length in the US Customary System equal to 3 feet or 36 inches (0.91 meter). See Table at measurement.
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