different between yard vs yaird
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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yaird
English
Noun
yaird (plural yairds)
- (Scotland) Obsolete form of yard.
- 1842, The Woodrow Society, Row’s History of the Kirk of Scotland, Edinburgh Printing Company, page 434:
- On Tuesday, by the first break of day, he went over the street to his yaird barefooted and bareheaded, (as David did when he went up Mount Olivet, fleeing out of Jerusalem from his son Absolom,) he locked the yaird doore behinde him, haveing charged them that were in the house with Helen Gardener, the baillie’s wife, to attend her, sitting quyet besyde hir.
- 1870, Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, A. & C. Black, page 425:
- and in this equipage, with his little phizie (fusee) upon his shoulder, he marches to the church yaird, where the May-pole was sett up, and the solemnitie of that day was to be kept.
- 1998, Leah Leneman, Alienated Affections: The Scottish Experience of Divorce and Separation, 1684-1830, Edinburgh University Press, page 30:
- A witness, Thomas Storie, said that Dalmahoy, with ‘a young woman Iron coloured of a high stature [i.e. tall] in common habit’, called at a neighbour’s house and asked for a drink of ale and enquired ‘if there was a yaird or any place for him and her to walk in’, and that they went to the yaird in question where Storie saw him ‘kissing and Imbraceing the said woman’.
- 1842, The Woodrow Society, Row’s History of the Kirk of Scotland, Edinburgh Printing Company, page 434:
Anagrams
- dairy, diary
Scots
Etymology
From Old English ?eard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /je?rd/
Noun
yaird (plural yairds)
- yard (measurement)
- garden, yard
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