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yard
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /j??d/
- (General American) enPR: yärd, IPA(key): /j??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Etymology 1
From Middle English yerd, yard, ?erd, ?eard, from Old English ?eard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure, enclosed place, court, residence, dwelling, home, region, land; hedge”), from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Dutch gaard, obsolete German Gart, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål gård, Norwegian Nynorsk gard), from Proto-Indo-European *g?órd?os, from Proto-Indo-European *g?erd?- (“to enclose”) (Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian ?????? (górod, “town”), Albanian gardh (“fence”), Romanian gard, Avestan ????????????????????????????? (g?r?dha, “dev's cave”), Sanskrit ??? (g?ha)), Medieval Latin gardinus, Medieval Latin jardinus. Doublet of garden.
Noun
yard (plural yards)
- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
- Synonym: (UK) garden
- An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
- (Jamaican, MLE) One’s house or home.
Derived terms
See also Yard
Translations
Verb
yard (third-person singular simple present yards, present participle yarding, simple past and past participle yarded)
- (transitive) To confine to a yard.
Etymology 2
From Middle English ?erde, yerd, ?erd, from Old English ?ierd (“branch; rod, staff; measuring stick; yardland”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga?d, from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz. Cognate with Dutch gard (“twig”), German Gerte and probably related to Latin hasta (“spear”).
Noun
yard (plural yards)
- A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
- Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
- (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
- (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
- (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
- (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
- (obsolete, medicine) A penis.
- (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
- (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
- a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:
- You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.
- a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:
- (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16 1?2 feet.
- (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, 1?4 acre.
Synonyms
- (arm length): See ell
- ($100): See hundred
- (surveying measure): See rod
- (large unit of area): See virgate
- (small unit of area): See rood
Hypernyms
- (unit of area): See virgate
Hyponyms
- (unit of area): See virgate
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Clipping of milliard.
Noun
yard (plural yards)
- (finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
- I need to hedge a yard of yen.
References
Anagrams
- Dray, Dyar, Rady, adry, dray
Czech
Noun
yard m
- yard (unit of length)
Further reading
- yard in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- yard in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
From English yard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ja?d/
Noun
yard m (plural yards)
- yard (unit of length)
Further reading
- “yard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
From English yard
Noun
yard f (plural yards)
- yard (unit of length)
- Synonym: iarda
Further reading
- yard in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Jamaican Creole
Alternative forms
- yaad, yawd
Etymology
From English yard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j??d/, /j??d/
- Hyphenation: yard
Noun
yard
- home
Noun
yard (plural: yard dem, quantified: yard)
- yard
Further reading
- Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 617
Middle English
Noun
yard
- Alternative form of yerd
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business
English
Etymology
From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisi?nes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy +? -ness. Doublet of busyness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?z.n?s/, /?b?z.n?z/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?b?z.n?s/, /?b?z.n?z/
- (Southern American English) IPA(key): /?b?d.n?s/, /?b?d.n?z/
- Hyphenation: busi?ness
Noun
business (countable and uncountable, plural businesses)
- (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
- (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
- (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
- (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
- (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
- (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
- (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
- (countable) A particular situation or activity.
- (countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
- (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
- (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
- (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
- (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
- (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
- (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
- (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
- (uncountable, slang) Disruptive shenanigans.
Derived terms
Related terms
- pidgin
Descendants
Translations
Adjective
business
- Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.
- Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
- Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
See also
- Appendix: Animals
- Appendix:English collective nouns
References
- business at OneLook Dictionary Search
- business in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- business in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Czech
Noun
business m
- business
Declension
Further reading
- business in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- business in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English business.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bisnes/, [?bis?ne?s?]
- IPA(key): /?pisnes/, [?pis?ne?s?]
- IPA(key): /?busines?/, [?bus?ine?s??]
Noun
business
- Alternative spelling of bisnes
Usage notes
It may be advisable to avoid using this term in writing.
Declension
This spelling does not fit nicely into Finnish declension system and is therefore seldom used, and mainly in nominative singular.
Pronunciation "bisnes":
Pronunciation "business":
Synonyms
- See Synonyms-section under bisnes
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English business.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biz.n?s/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): [b?z.n?s]
Noun
business m (plural business)
- business, firm, company
- business, affairs
Further reading
- “business” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English business.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?biz.nis/
Noun
business m (invariable)
- business (commercial enterprise)
- Synonyms: affare, affari, impresa
Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from English business.
Noun
business
- business
Declension
References
business dairäläre i?tibar?n Tatarstan belän
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