different between yard vs garde

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)

1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
2. (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.

   Synonym: (UK) garden

3. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
4. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
5. (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)

1. (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)

1. 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).
2. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
4. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
   1. (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.
5. (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
6. (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
7. (obsolete, medicine) A penis.
8. (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
9. (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.

10. (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹?₂ feet.
11. (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)

1. (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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. home

Noun

yard (plural: yard dem, quantified: yard)

1. 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

1. Alternative form of yerd

English

Noun

garde (plural gardes)

1. Obsolete form of guard.

Verb

garde (third-person singular simple present gardes, present participle garding, simple past and past participle garded)

1. Obsolete form of guard.

Anagrams

• Adger, Degar, EDGAR, Edgar, Gerda, grade, radge, raged

Czech

Noun

garde n

1. A chaperon, chaperone.

Related terms

• gardedáma f

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French garde.

Noun

garde c (singular definite garden, plural indefinite garder)

1. A guard.

Inflection

Derived terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???r.d?/
• Hyphenation: gar?de
• Rhymes: -?rd?

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gaerde.

Noun

garde f (plural gardes or garden)

1. A whisk, a beater.
2. A rod, penal implement.

   Synonym: roede

Etymology 2

Borrowe from Middle French garde, from Old French garde, from Proto-Germanic [Term?].

Noun

garde f (plural gardes or garden)

1. A guard (body of guards), especially an elite unit.

   Synonym: wacht

2. A guardsman, member of such body.

   Synonym: gardist, wachter

Derived terms

• gardebataljon
• gardecompagnie
• gardejager
• gardekorps
• gardesoldaat
• garderegiment
• lijfgarde

Related terms

• en garde

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d/

Etymology 1

From Old French guarde, from the verb guarder (or less likely directly from Frankish *warda), from Frankish *ward?n (“to protect”). Compare Italian guardia, Spanish guarda. Cognate with English ward.

Noun

garde m or f (plural gardes)

1. A watch, guard.

Derived terms

• chien de garde
• de garde
• garde à vue
• garde du corps
• mettre en garde
• mise en garde
• page de garde
• prendre garde
• sur ses gardes

Etymology 2

Deverbal of garder.

Noun

garde f (plural gardes)

1. A handle (of a weapon).
2. A protection (act of protecting).

Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

garde

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of garder
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of garder
3. second-person singular imperative of garder

Derived terms

• garde-fou
• garde-manger

Further reading

• “garde” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• Edgar
• égard

Galician

Verb

garde

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of gardar

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French guarde, from guarder. Doublet of ward.

Alternative forms

• gard, guarde

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ard(?)/, /??a?rd(?)/

Noun

garde (plural gardes)

1. guardianship, safeguarding, covering, authority
2. (rare) A company of guardians or wardens.
3. (rare) A portion of a set of armour.

Related terms

• gardein
• savegard

Descendants

• English: guard
• Scots: gaird

References

• “gard(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-16.

Etymology 2

Noun

garde

1. Alternative form of garth

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French guarde, of Germanic origins.

Noun

garde f (plural gardes)

1. (Jersey) A guard.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

garde

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of garder
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of garder
3. second-person singular imperative of garder