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noun jɑːdjɑrd 1A unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet (0.9144 metre) a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth Example sentencesExamples - With fox hunting you have hoards of people following across country on foot, one way or another, for yards or miles.
- Thirteen under par may have paled in comparison with the exploits of Tiger Woods and a number of others but it is still a decent score on a golf course measuring 7,246 yards.
- Weeks of learning 12 inches to one foot, three feet to a yard, 22 yards to a chain and however many chains to a mile - with rods, poles and perches somewhere in between.
- I read with interest recently about plans to develop a golf course in Wales that will eventually measure over 8000 yards.
- Many are anthropomorphic - the foot, the yard, the cubit, the span - and arise from the dimensions of parts of the human body.
- Start thinking in pounds, quarts, gallons, inches, yards and miles.
- An anti-metric activist yesterday appeared in court charged with stealing road signs which gave distances in metres rather than yards.
- His second, nine minutes later, was a rasping left foot drive from twenty five yards which hit the stanchion as the Castleton keeper stood mesmerised.
- In the imperial system, 36 inches are 1 yard and 1760 yards are 1 mile.
- The next three runnings were over one mile six furlongs and 12 yards.
- One meter is equivalent to 1.09 yards and one inch is equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- The course measures 5,293 yards and was designed by Eddie Hackett.
- He set world records for the 800 metres and 880 yards in the same race at Christchurch and the mile at Cooks Garden, Wanganui.
- How many inches equal a yard is not something subject to daily fluctuations on the free or any other market.
- On the half hour mark Brian Pendergast let fly with a right foot shot from twenty yards.
- He could tell us the speed of the train and how many miles / yards / feet we had until the next state line or anywhere else.
- I still talk about acres, yards, feet and inches; not forgetting gallons and pints and also hundredweights pounds and ounces.
- I headed the ball back inside and eventually the ball ended up at my feet 20 yards from goal and I just hit it.
- Vivian Foley crossed to Ger Foley and his twenty yards shot hit the crossbar but fell to the feet of Gary Doyle who scored the opening goal.
- It has a 7,653 yard range and its warhead consists of a tandem-shaped charge to penetrate reactive armour.
- 1.1yards ofinformal A great length of something.
yards and yards of fine lace Example sentencesExamples - Fisher insists, though, that his star performer brings more than just yards of hard-won advances down field.
- There are dozens of scene switches, a multitude of props, yards of costume changes.
- Outside, it is protected from the English winter weather by yards of bubble wrap and a child's umbrella.
- An architect undertaking the construction of a temple or palace began with stacks of bricks, yards of timber, and legions of slaves.
- At night, take a torch and you can get within yards of marsupials, including the faintly horrid Tasmanian devil.
- 1.2 A square or cubic yard, especially of sand or other building materials.
Example sentencesExamples - The commercial paving contractor, however, is likely to charge by the square yard, based on a certain thickness of each material.
- Consider a facility executive purchasing 10,000 square yards of flooring who has narrowed the selection to two choices.
- The project required roughly 80,000 cubic yards of concrete and grout using 12 different mix designs.
- A dam of its size would require pouring 4.4 million cubic yards of concrete: more wet cement than ever created before.
- It was constructed by the state in the 1930s and through the 1950s and '60s, hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand were deposited there.
- More than two dozen electric and steam locomotives along with hundreds of dump cars were required to remove about 37 million cubic yards of material.
- Barton Malow also placed 1700 cubic yards of SCC to cast a mat-slab for the building.
- Last summer, success built on success: 4,000 residents cleared out 11,000 cubic yards.
- GMA produces more than 1 million square yards of camouflage-patterned materials each year.
- The combined weight of both backing and coating, measured in ounces per square yard of wallcovering.
- The rate of sludge generation in septic tanks is around 0.05 cubic yards every year for an individual.
- However, the capacity of today's trucks varies a great deal, and few of them can actually carry nine cubic yards of cement.
- I paid for 25 cubic yards of concrete and a day's labor for eight concrete finishers, and we had a slab.
- The last of the material, about 100,000 cubic yards, will be delivered from the Big Dig by Dec.31.
- We can become so wrapped up in cubic yards of capacity and horsepower that we ignore those components of scrapers and graders.
- On top of the trash, millions of cubic yards of fine white sand were pumped as a slurry from Rockaway Inlet.
- First, Coleman enriched the existing soil with 6 cubic yards of planting mix.
- Sexton said 12,000 to 14,000 cubic yards of material would be placed on the track during the project.
- It took 8,100 tons of steel, 44,100 cubic yards of concrete, and over 160 miles of cable.
- Many loose materials are sold by the cubic yard, including cement, dirt, sand, rock, landscaping bark, gravel and cinders.
2A cylindrical spar, tapering to each end, slung across a ship's mast for a sail to hang from. Example sentencesExamples - The ship also carried standing skysail pales and yards, a half poop, and had as her figurehead a toothy dragon's head.
- The Captain motioned with his eyes and his head to the main mast top yard.
- They could see Bowles and they waited, bracing themselves against the yard should the two ships collide.
- About 170 lines control the sails and yards, so every member of the crew must be familiar with these operations and functions.
- Her captain was at the top yard of the main mast, glass to eye.
- To have the ship's company clearly visible on deck, or in the days of sail, aloft on the yards, meant that the guns were not manned.
- Masts and yards continued to be installed for decades, becoming increasingly vestigial, but the die was cast.
- The argument is that a three-masted ship had three yards on each mast for the square sails, making nine in all.
- They stood in the foot ropes of the main mast topsail yard.
- He moves one of the sails so that the yard catches Will and swings him out over the sea. Now, as long as you're just hanging there, pay attention.
3US informal 100 dollars; a 100 dollar bill. it cost two hundred up front—one yard for Maurice, one for the girl
Phrases In large numbers or quantities. golf continues to inspire books by the yard Example sentencesExamples - Like many people my age I've got lots of CDs, and I've still got vinyl by the yard.
- Shakespeare has left us a satiric portrait of the poet who writes verses by the yard to please a patron in Timon of Athens.
- You can buy aquamarine images by the yard in quayside galleries in St Ives, Penzance, Mevagissey or Falmouth.
- And political rope has been played out by the yard in the Irish peace process that was meant to bolster trust and truth but which displayed instead the most convenient arrangement of alternatives.
- Since he was so incredibly prolific, cranking out the copy by the yard, he could hardly help committing the odd slip-up here and there.
- Parthus has got techno-babble buzzwords by the yard.
- When I asked about the flag material, I was told that shops were selling it by the yard after 9 / 11.
- The Russell family have evidently spent a couple of dozen generations rapaciously buying pictures by the yard.
- Despite the disdain for tartan shown by the SNP, Scots are buying kilts by - well, by the yard.
- (The hackademic machine is now happily turning out Deleuze wallpaper by the yard of course).
- The entertainment mode is drunken, end-of-university-term party, hard flesh ripples by the yard and it's high-fives and carb-balanced designer water.
- These are the people who buy their art by the yard, and tend to like good old landscapes, boats and sporting subjects.
- Those who do not read, or worse yet that tribe of heretics who purchase books by the yard as decorating tools, don't understand that one does not always go to a library to read or to conduct research.
Origin Old English gerd (in sense 2), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch gard 'twig, rod' and German Gerte. The yard as a unit of length descends from Old English gerd ‘twig, stick, rod’, and has been the standard English unit of measure equal to three feet since the later medieval period. Since the Old English period this yard has also been a nautical term for a long spar for a square sail to hang from. See also sun. The other yard derives from Old English geard ‘building, home, enclosure’ and is related to garden and orchard, and also to Russian gorod ‘town’, used in place names such as Novgorod. In Britain a yard is usually an enclosed piece of ground near a building, whereas in the USA it means the garden of a house. In Jamaican English yard means ‘a house or home’, and among expatriate Jamaicans Yard is Jamaica. This is the origin of Yardie, used by Jamaicans for a fellow Jamaican, but since the mid 1980s in Britain to refer to a member of a Jamaican or West Indian gang of criminals.
Rhymes Assad, aubade, avant-garde, backyard, ballade, bard, Bernard, bombard, canard, card, charade, chard, couvade, croustade, Cunard, facade, glissade, guard, hard, ill-starred, interlard, lard, Montagnard, nard, pard, petard, pomade, promenade, regard, rodomontade, roulade, saccade, Sade, salade, sard, shard, unmarred, unscarred noun jɑːdjɑrd 1British A piece of uncultivated ground adjoining a building, typically one enclosed by walls or other buildings. tiny houses with the lavatory in the yard Example sentencesExamples - The village square is dominated by a pristine, thatched church enclosed within a walled yard.
- The result is a very attractive building which is now the centre piece of the yard.
- To this I cou'd not submit to secure the barrack I offered to erect four large sheds and finished one - together with some paling to enclose a yard.
- The house is a huge damp building that would be demolished at home, and has plain white mildew-covered walls. The playground is a dust yard with a rusting swing set which the kids love.
- We get a lot of youngsters at the back of our house jumping over the wall near our yard and a bottle was smashed near our back gate in the middle of the night.
- Workers may also assemble in a yard on the company grounds to engage in group exercises at the start of the day.
- Mr Hayton, who is in his 40s, found the thief rifling through the purse in an enclosed yard but the man drew a cutthroat razor and advanced, waving the blade from side to side.
- When I wanted to, I could sit nude, as the entire yard was enclosed by a tall cement block fence that had been painted pink.
- Patrons could apparently stand in the yard around the stage and either stand or sit in the galleries which enclosed the yard.
- Next to the small psychiatric hospital, with its yard enclosed by a high wire fence, was the leper colony.
- Mr Hewitt said one important piece of advice was for people to watch out for any strangers hanging about stables or yards.
- There was a yard enclosed by a high brick wall at one end of the place.
- Several Hampshire rams had been seen during the present week, however, sleeping and cropping the grass in the yard adjoining a well-known York church.
- They took their food and went to sit on the low wall that enclosed the yard.
- She saw Avery in the prison yard hanging from the shackles on his wrists.
- 1.1North American The garden of a house.
Example sentencesExamples - These signs grace the three nearest places I can get food, as well as the nearest computer store, and the yards of three of my nearby neighbors.
- While most of us are preparing our yards and gardens for the cooler weather, many in the warmer regions are still enjoying the fruits of their labor.
- Our neighbors had a guava tree with branches that hung over into our yard.
- So, you have decided to plant rose bushes in your yard or on your patio, porch or balcony.
- Maybe it's the neighbor to the south who has the beautiful yard with the beautiful garden with the perfect fountain and the elegant rock formation.
- His house was large, though not overly so, and beautiful, the lawn perfectly manicured and flowers growing in perfect little gardens in the yard.
- We have the occasional sighting of a bluejay or a cardinal, but that doesn't make up for the lower class of birds who hang out in my yard.
- A malnourished kitten has been hanging around my yard and alley lately.
- You'd get to know them, and pretty soon we were just like anybody else hanging out in the yard.
- I thought I wouldn't care so much, but I'd like to garden and have a yard just to stand in the grass.
- You may even find some that prove more useful in the yard and garden than in your kitchen.
- Most of us consider our yards and gardens an extension of our homes, and we look for sanctuary and privacy there.
- If you've got a problem with mosquitoes, you can also place a few citronella candles around the yard or patio.
- Well, you see, though Thomas needed the money and was willing to work for it, his work in her yard and gardens were terrible.
- Since it's my tree, can I trim the branches even though they hang over onto his yard?
- She scuttled over the window and ran out the yard sailing over the chain link fence and jumping into the car as it drove away.
- Kim and her family moved to this house in 1991, and Kim immediately began to renovate the neglected yard.
- I want to start a vinyard, and an organic garden in my yard, because I've got a couple of acres…
- Or brick can form a subtle, natural path through your yard, linking patio and gardens.
- Everyone else was going to take down the giant sunflowers and dead tomato plants in my garden and get the yard ready for winter.
- I used a large tree in my yard as the main brace, and worked around that.
Synonyms backyard, garden courtyard, court, quadrangle, enclosure, cloister, close informal quad
2An area of land used for a particular purpose or business. Example sentencesExamples - The gang loaded the bikes which all had keys in the ignition on to a trailer belonging to garage owner Rhett Fisher, who leases part of his yard to the business.
- Twenty interns in six unions worked on campaigns including in call centres, furniture factories, transport yards, hospitals and hotels.
- There have been six major fires at fridge storage yards in the region - the latest in October at the yard in Stock Lane, Chadderton.
- Sister ship HMS Enterprise is currently undergoing construction at the same yard, and is due to enter service next year.
- Five or six trips to the dump yard on the far lands and I stopped for something to eat.
- My father has a little family business, a scrap-metal business with a yard and lorry.
- As well, Greenpeace and the ITF are jointly campaigning against the pollution and exploitation at the world's ship wrecking yards.
- Montague says they are doing everything they can do to control the beetles, and that includes implementing preventative measures at the mill yard.
- These traders require access to their stores and yards to run their businesses.
- Provision of adequate storage yards at metro stations.
- You can substitute materials lying around your yard.
- That option is likely to suit businesses such as Benchmark which require large storage yards.
- I went by a yacht yard beside the highway every day and one day stopped in and began admiring a Compac yacht.
- It's a suburb choked with car yards and petrol stations, but everything was either closed or cap-less.
- Prosecuting counsel Amy Nicholson told the court that on January 23 the police searched the yard of a business run by Murphy and Sanderson.
- Young arsonists were today blamed for a blaze which ripped through a caravan, nearly destroying a storage yard.
- Their recreation area is a yard, measuring 45 feet by 20, with a steel mesh covering on top.
- But, unknown to her owner, for the past three weeks Tiny has been wandering into the yard at Clacton police station looking for food and attention.
- He had previously used the yard for the purposes of an ambulance business which had ceased to trade in about 1995.
- Just north of the Metrorail transfer station we passed Amtrak's yards and Miami area station on the left.
- It is understood that a considerable amount of waste material lies under the yard at the site, pictured above.
- The area which used to be the service yard for Tesco would be transformed into a riverside arena, resembling an amphitheatre.
- You'd ride over a rise and into a storage yard full of pipe and conduit.
- Sixty new buildings and skyscrapers costing over $700 million shot up on former rail yards and warehouse areas.
Synonyms workshop, works, factory, garage, plant, foundry, mill, industrial unit, business unit shipyard archaic manufactory - 2.1the YardBritish informal
another term for Scotland Yard
3West Indian A house and the land attached. Example sentencesExamples - I was walking around the yard of the house where Natty, MBJr. and I are living and I happened to glance over the fence.
- Oscar knowing that he has sufficiently punished Black dog for the insult of biting Lady, simply strutted back home and into the yard to lick his paw and shoulder.
- Sulchan reportedly opened the door without anyone knowing and ran out behind her father as he was reversing into the yard of their Freeport home.
- Second time was because Alvin, the fellow who comes twice a week to do odd jobs around the house and the yard, chopped his index finger with the cutlass!
- To enter where he is, one must pass several shrines and offerings all about the yard of his home.
- 3.1 An urban residential compound comprising a number of small rented dwellings around a shared open area.
Example sentencesExamples - She washes - humiliatingly, since she is a modest and dignified woman - at a stand-pipe in the yard shared with her neighbours.
- For a while I also shared a yard with a British chap named Roy who worked as a foreman on the project.
- Dai people build their wooden housing compound in a yard.
- There are 14 small shacks and brick houses opening on to the yard, sharing a central tap and stone basin.
- 3.2South African A plot of land, or the grounds of a building, accommodating a number of small rooms let out as living space.
Example sentencesExamples - The yard and the room that he rented are being developed into what will be known as the Mandela Yard Interpretation Centre.
- The yard and room are now to be transformed into a tourist site, to be called the Mandela Yard Interpretation Centre.
- Salphina Mulaudzi, the ward councillor for the area, estimates that an average yard accommodates about 10 sub-tenants.
- Additional separate rooms, called backyard shacks, occupy most of the space in most yards, to form ‘town houses’.
4(especially among expatriate Jamaicans) home; Jamaica. life in Yard is no Caribbean holiday Example sentencesExamples - Bob born and grow a Yard, and thats where his body should rest, you simi?
- I have had chinese food at a number of places, including New York, Philly, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles and probably a few more places that I don't remember, and nowhere else has it tasted as irie as it does back a Yard.
- Bwoy, I wish the Commish and his British second every success, but I also read that the British dude, along with plenty other police, had to run for their lives recently when they were touring a rough neighbourhood back a Yard!
verb jɑːdjɑrd [with object]1North American Store or transport (wood) in or to a timber yard. he is the last logger to be using a sled for yarding logs Canadian operators never practised yarding on a wider scale Example sentencesExamples - Such overhead logging methods were paired with cable yarding systems that dragged the logs to their loading sites.
- On this site, they tackle the block in smaller segments completing some falling and then yarding that wood before moving on.
- The paper company initially attempted to introduce a capital-intensive cable yarding logging system near Atepec in 1958, but the community opposed this system, which relied upon outside labor to manage the machinery.
2Put (farm animals) into an enclosure. sheep should be yarded even in the spring Example sentencesExamples - We were trying to yard cattle and you don't get on foot for that.
- They both helped in yarding the sheep, sweeping out the woolshed during shearing (Judy became a proficient shearer), taking morning and afternoon tea to the shearers, and helping drive mobs.
- In December 1879 great indignation was felt by all about the brutal assault against Mr Best because he had yarded some trespassing cattle and would not let them go before the owners had paid for the damages.
- Much like their forefathers, they yard the cattle with ease and grace, born to the country that surrounds them.
3North American no object (of moose) gather as a herd for the winter. they note changes in the numbers of moose yarding together Example sentencesExamples - Although they yard together in spring, during most of the year, moose are solitary secretive animals and very wary of mankind.
- When snow is deep and moose ''yard'' together, they are more accessible in greater numbers to wolves.
Origin Old English geard 'building, home, region', from a Germanic base related to Russian gorod 'town'. Compare with garden and orchard. nounjɑrdyärd 1A unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet (0.9144 meter). Example sentencesExamples - Vivian Foley crossed to Ger Foley and his twenty yards shot hit the crossbar but fell to the feet of Gary Doyle who scored the opening goal.
- His second, nine minutes later, was a rasping left foot drive from twenty five yards which hit the stanchion as the Castleton keeper stood mesmerised.
- With fox hunting you have hoards of people following across country on foot, one way or another, for yards or miles.
- He could tell us the speed of the train and how many miles / yards / feet we had until the next state line or anywhere else.
- One meter is equivalent to 1.09 yards and one inch is equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- The course measures 5,293 yards and was designed by Eddie Hackett.
- Many are anthropomorphic - the foot, the yard, the cubit, the span - and arise from the dimensions of parts of the human body.
- I headed the ball back inside and eventually the ball ended up at my feet 20 yards from goal and I just hit it.
- I still talk about acres, yards, feet and inches; not forgetting gallons and pints and also hundredweights pounds and ounces.
- I read with interest recently about plans to develop a golf course in Wales that will eventually measure over 8000 yards.
- An anti-metric activist yesterday appeared in court charged with stealing road signs which gave distances in metres rather than yards.
- How many inches equal a yard is not something subject to daily fluctuations on the free or any other market.
- He set world records for the 800 metres and 880 yards in the same race at Christchurch and the mile at Cooks Garden, Wanganui.
- Start thinking in pounds, quarts, gallons, inches, yards and miles.
- It has a 7,653 yard range and its warhead consists of a tandem-shaped charge to penetrate reactive armour.
- In the imperial system, 36 inches are 1 yard and 1760 yards are 1 mile.
- Weeks of learning 12 inches to one foot, three feet to a yard, 22 yards to a chain and however many chains to a mile - with rods, poles and perches somewhere in between.
- The next three runnings were over one mile six furlongs and 12 yards.
- Thirteen under par may have paled in comparison with the exploits of Tiger Woods and a number of others but it is still a decent score on a golf course measuring 7,246 yards.
- On the half hour mark Brian Pendergast let fly with a right foot shot from twenty yards.
- 1.1yards ofinformal A great length of something.
yards and yards of fine lace Example sentencesExamples - At night, take a torch and you can get within yards of marsupials, including the faintly horrid Tasmanian devil.
- An architect undertaking the construction of a temple or palace began with stacks of bricks, yards of timber, and legions of slaves.
- Outside, it is protected from the English winter weather by yards of bubble wrap and a child's umbrella.
- There are dozens of scene switches, a multitude of props, yards of costume changes.
- Fisher insists, though, that his star performer brings more than just yards of hard-won advances down field.
- 1.2 A square or cubic yard, especially of sand or other building materials.
Example sentencesExamples - The rate of sludge generation in septic tanks is around 0.05 cubic yards every year for an individual.
- The last of the material, about 100,000 cubic yards, will be delivered from the Big Dig by Dec.31.
- GMA produces more than 1 million square yards of camouflage-patterned materials each year.
- It was constructed by the state in the 1930s and through the 1950s and '60s, hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand were deposited there.
- On top of the trash, millions of cubic yards of fine white sand were pumped as a slurry from Rockaway Inlet.
- The project required roughly 80,000 cubic yards of concrete and grout using 12 different mix designs.
- Many loose materials are sold by the cubic yard, including cement, dirt, sand, rock, landscaping bark, gravel and cinders.
- A dam of its size would require pouring 4.4 million cubic yards of concrete: more wet cement than ever created before.
- Consider a facility executive purchasing 10,000 square yards of flooring who has narrowed the selection to two choices.
- Last summer, success built on success: 4,000 residents cleared out 11,000 cubic yards.
- I paid for 25 cubic yards of concrete and a day's labor for eight concrete finishers, and we had a slab.
- More than two dozen electric and steam locomotives along with hundreds of dump cars were required to remove about 37 million cubic yards of material.
- The combined weight of both backing and coating, measured in ounces per square yard of wallcovering.
- It took 8,100 tons of steel, 44,100 cubic yards of concrete, and over 160 miles of cable.
- The commercial paving contractor, however, is likely to charge by the square yard, based on a certain thickness of each material.
- First, Coleman enriched the existing soil with 6 cubic yards of planting mix.
- Barton Malow also placed 1700 cubic yards of SCC to cast a mat-slab for the building.
- We can become so wrapped up in cubic yards of capacity and horsepower that we ignore those components of scrapers and graders.
- Sexton said 12,000 to 14,000 cubic yards of material would be placed on the track during the project.
- However, the capacity of today's trucks varies a great deal, and few of them can actually carry nine cubic yards of cement.
- 1.3 A cloth measure, of three feet in length and varying widths.
Example sentencesExamples - I have a several yard length of linen, and one of ramie, that are ivory/beige right now.
2A cylindrical spar, tapering to each end, slung across a ship's mast for a sail to hang from. Example sentencesExamples - The Captain motioned with his eyes and his head to the main mast top yard.
- The argument is that a three-masted ship had three yards on each mast for the square sails, making nine in all.
- Masts and yards continued to be installed for decades, becoming increasingly vestigial, but the die was cast.
- They could see Bowles and they waited, bracing themselves against the yard should the two ships collide.
- He moves one of the sails so that the yard catches Will and swings him out over the sea. Now, as long as you're just hanging there, pay attention.
- Her captain was at the top yard of the main mast, glass to eye.
- They stood in the foot ropes of the main mast topsail yard.
- To have the ship's company clearly visible on deck, or in the days of sail, aloft on the yards, meant that the guns were not manned.
- The ship also carried standing skysail pales and yards, a half poop, and had as her figurehead a toothy dragon's head.
- About 170 lines control the sails and yards, so every member of the crew must be familiar with these operations and functions.
3US informal 100 dollars; a 100 dollar bill.
Phrases In large numbers or quantities. golf continues to inspire books by the yard Example sentencesExamples - These are the people who buy their art by the yard, and tend to like good old landscapes, boats and sporting subjects.
- The Russell family have evidently spent a couple of dozen generations rapaciously buying pictures by the yard.
- You can buy aquamarine images by the yard in quayside galleries in St Ives, Penzance, Mevagissey or Falmouth.
- Like many people my age I've got lots of CDs, and I've still got vinyl by the yard.
- Those who do not read, or worse yet that tribe of heretics who purchase books by the yard as decorating tools, don't understand that one does not always go to a library to read or to conduct research.
- Shakespeare has left us a satiric portrait of the poet who writes verses by the yard to please a patron in Timon of Athens.
- When I asked about the flag material, I was told that shops were selling it by the yard after 9 / 11.
- Parthus has got techno-babble buzzwords by the yard.
- The entertainment mode is drunken, end-of-university-term party, hard flesh ripples by the yard and it's high-fives and carb-balanced designer water.
- Since he was so incredibly prolific, cranking out the copy by the yard, he could hardly help committing the odd slip-up here and there.
- And political rope has been played out by the yard in the Irish peace process that was meant to bolster trust and truth but which displayed instead the most convenient arrangement of alternatives.
- (The hackademic machine is now happily turning out Deleuze wallpaper by the yard of course).
- Despite the disdain for tartan shown by the SNP, Scots are buying kilts by - well, by the yard.
Origin Old English gerd (in yard (sense 2)), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch gard ‘twig, rod’ and German Gerte. nounjɑrdyärd North American 1A piece of ground adjoining a building or house. Example sentencesExamples - She suggests that they bend protocol and walk the men back to their unit through a side yard that has been landscaped by inmates.
- Most people in New Zealand live in single houses with large yards and flower or vegetable gardens.
- Deer are often seen in the yards of homes near Fish Creek and Nose Hill parks, and there are an estimated 300 deer living on the campus of the University of Calgary.
- The house is surrounded by a wrought iron railing to the front and the rear yard extends 3.25 metres.
- Tall, tapering lightposts bathe the yard in pale light.
- Now, the wooden sheds he saw in the yards behind the buildings have given way to rows of steel carapaces, like small freight containers, under which Muscovites lock their cars.
- 1.1 An area of ground surrounded by walls or buildings.
Example sentencesExamples - Last summer, a section of the wall that runs behind houses on Bow Ridge Link shifted and caused damage to a number of yards in the area, both above and below the wall.
- Outside, the mud hut was surrounded by a yard littered with rubbish, plastic bags, empty bottles, square containers of rotten fruit and a broken chair.
- The sides were covered almost completely by green ivy vines and the yard surrounding the building was overgrown with cypress trees.
- I squared my shoulders, opened the gate of the small white picket fence surrounding a neatly kept yard, and headed towards the white door.
- To the rear of the school there is a large yard surrounded by an imposing tall stone wall.
- They unlocked it, but before they got in, all of them took a second to look out at the yard surrounding the church.
- There were tall walls surrounding a yard, closing it off from the rest of the property.
- It took about a whole two acres, and it stood behind the courtyard right in between the buildings that surrounded the yard.
- 1.2 An area of land used for a particular purpose or business.
Example sentencesExamples - Montague says they are doing everything they can do to control the beetles, and that includes implementing preventative measures at the mill yard.
- Provision of adequate storage yards at metro stations.
- You can substitute materials lying around your yard.
- Just north of the Metrorail transfer station we passed Amtrak's yards and Miami area station on the left.
- Young arsonists were today blamed for a blaze which ripped through a caravan, nearly destroying a storage yard.
- It's a suburb choked with car yards and petrol stations, but everything was either closed or cap-less.
- The area which used to be the service yard for Tesco would be transformed into a riverside arena, resembling an amphitheatre.
- That option is likely to suit businesses such as Benchmark which require large storage yards.
- I went by a yacht yard beside the highway every day and one day stopped in and began admiring a Compac yacht.
- You'd ride over a rise and into a storage yard full of pipe and conduit.
- Sixty new buildings and skyscrapers costing over $700 million shot up on former rail yards and warehouse areas.
- The gang loaded the bikes which all had keys in the ignition on to a trailer belonging to garage owner Rhett Fisher, who leases part of his yard to the business.
- Five or six trips to the dump yard on the far lands and I stopped for something to eat.
- Prosecuting counsel Amy Nicholson told the court that on January 23 the police searched the yard of a business run by Murphy and Sanderson.
- There have been six major fires at fridge storage yards in the region - the latest in October at the yard in Stock Lane, Chadderton.
- As well, Greenpeace and the ITF are jointly campaigning against the pollution and exploitation at the world's ship wrecking yards.
- Their recreation area is a yard, measuring 45 feet by 20, with a steel mesh covering on top.
- Twenty interns in six unions worked on campaigns including in call centres, furniture factories, transport yards, hospitals and hotels.
- It is understood that a considerable amount of waste material lies under the yard at the site, pictured above.
- My father has a little family business, a scrap-metal business with a yard and lorry.
- But, unknown to her owner, for the past three weeks Tiny has been wandering into the yard at Clacton police station looking for food and attention.
- Sister ship HMS Enterprise is currently undergoing construction at the same yard, and is due to enter service next year.
- These traders require access to their stores and yards to run their businesses.
- He had previously used the yard for the purposes of an ambulance business which had ceased to trade in about 1995.
Synonyms workshop, works, factory, garage, plant, foundry, mill, industrial unit, business unit - 1.3 An area where deer or moose gather as a herd for the winter.
verbjɑrdyärd North American 1with object Store or transport (timber) in or to a log yard. Example sentencesExamples - The paper company initially attempted to introduce a capital-intensive cable yarding logging system near Atepec in 1958, but the community opposed this system, which relied upon outside labor to manage the machinery.
- On this site, they tackle the block in smaller segments completing some falling and then yarding that wood before moving on.
- Such overhead logging methods were paired with cable yarding systems that dragged the logs to their loading sites.
2no object (of deer or moose) gather as a herd for the winter. Example sentencesExamples - When snow is deep and moose ''yard'' together, they are more accessible in greater numbers to wolves.
- Although they yard together in spring, during most of the year, moose are solitary secretive animals and very wary of mankind.
Origin Old English geard ‘building, home, region’, from a Germanic base related to Russian gorod ‘town’. Compare with garden and orchard. |