| 单词 | yard |
| 释义 | Word Frequency yard 1(jɑːd) noun 1. a unit of length equal to 3 feet and defined in 1963 as exactly 0.9144 metre Abbreviation: yd2. 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. put in the hard yards 5. the whole nine yards Word origin Old English gierd rod, twig; related to Old Frisian jerde, Old Saxon gerdia, Old High German gertia, Old Norse gaddrWord Frequency yard 2(jɑːd) 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. a. an enclosed or open area used for some commercial activity, for storage, etc a railway yard b. (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 and Canadian the winter pasture of deer, moose, and similar animals 6. Australian and New Zealand an enclosed area used to draw off part of a herd, etc 7. New Zealand short for saleyard, stockyard verb (transitive) 8. to draft (animals), esp to a saleyard Word origin Old English geard; related to Old Saxon gard, Old High German gart, Old Norse garthr yard, Gothic gards house, Old Slavonic gradu town, castle, Albanian garth hedgeWord Frequency Yard(jɑːd) noun the Yard |
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