Synonyms of the word yard


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yard

  • n. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other…
  • 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) One’s house or home.
  • v. (transitive) To confine to a yard.
  • n. A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal…
  • n. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
  • n. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
  • 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) 16½ feet.
  • n. (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¼ acre.
  • n. (finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.

chiliad

  • n. a group of 1000 things.
  • n. a period of 1000 years; a millennium.

curtilage

  • n. (law) The area immediately surrounding a house, including any closely associated buildings and structures.

enclosure

  • n. (countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
  • n. (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
  • n. (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
  • n. (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
  • n. (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
  • n. (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

field

  • n. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
  • n. A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
  • n. The open country near or belonging to a town or city—usually used in plural.
  • n. A physical phenomenon, such as force, potential, or fluid velocity, that pervades a region.
  • n. An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
  • n. A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
  • n. The extent of a given perception.
  • n. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
  • n. An area reserved for playing a game.
  • n. A realm of practical, direct, or natural operation, contrasting with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
  • n. (algebra) A commutative ring with identity for which every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse.
  • n. (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
  • n. (heraldry) The background of the shield.
  • n. (vexillology) The background of the flag.
  • n. (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
  • n. A component of a database record in which a single unit of information is stored.
  • n. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of characters.
  • n. (baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by…
  • n. (baseball) The outfield.
  • n. An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
  • n. All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
  • v. (baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball,…
  • v. (transitive, sports) To place a team in (a game).
  • v. (transitive) To answer; to address.
  • v. (transitive) To defeat.
  • v. (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
  • v. (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.

grand

  • adj. Of a large size or extent; great.
  • adj. Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.
  • adj. Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
  • adj. (usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent.
  • adj. (Ireland, Northern England, colloquial, otherwise dated) Fine; lovely.
  • n. A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.).
  • n. (music) A grand piano.

grounds

  • n. plural of ground.
  • n. (law) Basis or justification for something, as in "grounds for divorce.".
  • n. The collective land areas that compose a larger area, as in the castle grounds.
  • n. The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered (as in coffee grounds).

pace

  • n. (obsolete) Passage, route.
  • n. Step.
  • n. Way of stepping.
  • n. Speed or velocity in general.
  • n. (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed…
  • n. A group of donkeys. The collective noun for donkeys.
  • adj. (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
  • v. Walk to and fro in a small space.
  • v. Set the speed in a race.
  • v. Measure by walking.
  • prep. (formal) With all due respect to.
  • n. Easter.

parcel

  • n. A package wrapped for shipment.
  • n. An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
  • n. A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
  • n. (obsolete) A group of birds.
  • n. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
  • n. A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
  • n. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
  • v. To wrap something up into the form of a package.
  • v. To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
  • v. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into.
  • v. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
  • adv. (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.

spar

  • n. A rafter of a roof.
  • n. A thick pole or piece of wood.
  • n. (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
  • n. (nautical) A general term denoting any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
  • n. (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
  • v. (obsolete or dialectal) to bolt, bar.
  • v. (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
  • v. To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
  • v. To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
  • v. To contest in words; to wrangle.
  • n. (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent blee, which…
  • n. (mineralogy) Any crystal with no readily discernible faces.

thou

  • pron. (archaic, literary, religious, ceremonial, or dialectal) you singular nominative case.
  • v. (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of familiarity…
  • v. (intransitive) To use the word thou.
  • n. (dated, Britain) A unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch.
  • n. (slang) A thousand, especially a thousand dollars, a thousand pounds sterling, etc.
  • adv. Misspelling of though.
  • conj. Misspelling of though.

thousand

  • num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 103.

tract

  • n. An area or expanse.
  • n. A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
  • n. A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
  • n. A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
  • n. A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
  • n. Continued or protracted duration, length, extent.
  • n. Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used…
  • n. (obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
  • n. (obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
  • n. (obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
  • n. (obsolete) Track; trace.
  • n. (obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
  • v. (obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
  • v. (obsolete) To draw out; to protract.

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