YARD

n. lawn, enclosure, lot, courtyard; unit of measure equal to 0.9144 meters; storage area; train yard, yard where railway cars and engines are stored and maintained; pen, enclosure for livestock; crossbeam for a sail (Nautical)

A yard (abbreviation: yd) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. Its size can vary from system to system. The most commonly used yard today is the international yard which by definition is equal to 0.9144 metre.
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Noun
1. a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
(synonym) pace
(hypernym) linear unit
(part-holonym) fathom, fthm
(part-meronym) foot, ft
2. the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard"
(synonym) grounds, curtilage
(hypernym) field
(hyponym) backyard
3. a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings); "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town"
(hypernym) tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
(hyponym) junkyard
4. an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
(synonym) railway yard
(hypernym) tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
(hyponym) marshalling yard
5. an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
(hypernym) enclosure
(hyponym) barnyard
6. a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
(synonym) cubic yard
(hypernym) volume unit, capacity unit, capacity measure, cubage unit, cubic measure, cubic content unit, displacement unit, cubature unit
7. a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
(hypernym) spar
(hyponym) main yard
(part-holonym) sailing vessel, sailing ship
(part-meronym) yardarm
8. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
(synonym) thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou
(hypernym) large integer

n. yard, unit of measure equal to 0.9144 meters

n. yard