yard

«yard» in Mova's school dictionary: the ground around a house; in the USA it often has grass… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (yard, yards; yd)

meaning for a pupil

1) A yard is the ground around a house; in the USA it often has grass (in the UK a «garden»). tree →

2) A yard is a unit of length. A yard is 3 feet. A yard is 36 inches. tree →

3) A yard is an open area for work or play, like a school yard, a farmyard or a shipyard. tree →

sense in the lessons

a place (back yard) or a unit of length for cloth, fences and fields; football fields in the USA are measured in yards; phrases «backyard», «front yard», «school yard», «yard sale», «graveyard»

examples

• There are 8 trees in the yard. tree →
• She bought 5 yards of ribbon. tree →
• One yard is 3 feet. tree →
• The field is 100 yards long. tree →
• The kids played in the front yard. tree →
• We had a yard sale on Saturday. tree →
• The ship was built in a shipyard. tree →
• The farmyard was full of chickens. tree →
• He ran 40 yards for a touchdown. tree →
• A yard is a little shorter than a meter. tree →
• Out they went into the yard. tree →

note

A place or a unit of length. Trap: yards and feet must be changed to one unit; 1 yard = 3 feet. Square yards measure area (9 square feet in a square yard). 1 yard is about 0.9 meters.

In the corpora

• It is the very car he stole from the yard of the Red Lion, with the very same people in it!
• "Sent to the knacker's yard" (old-fashioned UK) means an old horse was sent to be slaughtered.
• Jack in Liverpool got a note home about a fight in the yard.
• One yard is 3 feet, and one foot is 12 inches.
• A plan is a detailed map of a small place, such as a room or a school yard.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «yard» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.