yard

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈjɑːd/|[ˈjɑːd]    美 /ˈjɑɹd/|[ˈjɑɹd]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
    — 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
  2. 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
    — I need to hedge a yard of yen.
  3. 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).
    — Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
  4. The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn. Australia,Canada,US
  5. One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth. slang
    — How much coke you want? Gimme a yard.
  6. 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).; Ellipsis of square yard, a unit of area; common with textiles. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,informal
  7. An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
    — A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
  8. 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).; Ellipsis of cubic yard, a unit of volume; common in mining and earthmoving. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,informal
  9. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
  10. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
  11. One’s house or home. Jamaica,Multicultural-London-English
    — Man’s devilish cunt, tell me nutting about friends, that’s dead Cuz I run up in yards, No vest, tryna ching man’s chest And leave him dead
  12. Any spar carried aloft.
  13. Any spar carried aloft.; 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 last two hang obliquely.
  14. A branch, twig, or shoot. obsolete
  15. A staff, rod, or stick. obsolete
  16. A penis. obsolete
    — Loues her by the foot. Dum. He may not by the yard.
  17. 100 dollars. US,slang,uncommon
  18. The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres. obsolete
    — You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.
  19. The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet. obsolete
  20. The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre. obsolete
  21. A tall, slender, hollow receptacle or tool.
动词 v.
  1. To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along. humorous,intransitive
    — He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.
  2. To confine to a yard. transitive
    — As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods.

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
ell $100
下位词
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衍生词
18-yard box a yard of pump water balm yard Burnt Yards church-yard cross-jack yard dead yard deer yard do the hard yards drop yard fiddle yard freight yard get up the yard go yard hard yards Hobbys Yards horse-yard hundred-yard stare inn yard kiloyard livery yard lumber yard mosque yard Mughal yard no yards pan-yard rail yard receiving yard sail-yard sale yard salvage yard shunting-yard algorithm six-yard area switching yard thin as a yard of pump water thousand-yard stare timber yard trap yard victualling yard wrecker's yard wrecking yard wreck yard yard ape yard arm yard bird yardbird yard-boy yard broom yard dart yard-dike yard-dog yard duty yardfowl yard fowl yard-fowl yardful yard goat yard grass yard-grass yardhove yarding yard light yard-long bean yard-long cucumber yardman yardmaster yard-money yard out yardperson yard pilot yard rope yard sale yard slug yardsman yardswoman yard trash day yard-trash day yard work yard-work the whole nine yards yardage yardland 18-yard line 440-yard dash all wool and a yard wide by the yard clay yard cloth yard cloth-yard cubic yard fore-yard foreyard golden yard jackyard main yard main-yard mast-yard meteyard mizen-yard mizen yard mizzen-yard mizzen yard royal yardman sailyard six-yard box square yard steelyard under the yard upper yardman whole nine yards yardarita yard-arm yardarm yard-coal yarded yardel yard-fell yard goods yard jockey yard-long yard-measure yard of ale yard of clay yard of land yard of lime yard of mortar yard of satin yard of stone yard of tin yard-rope yard-seam yard-stick yardstick yard-wand yardwand

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos
Proto-Germanic *gardaz
Proto-West Germanic *gard
Old English ġeard
Middle English yerd
English yard
From Middle English yerd, yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”).
See also North Frisian guard, Guart (“garden, yard”), Dutch gaard, gaarde (“garden, yard”), German Garten (“garden, yard”), Danish, Swedish gård (“farm, estate, land; court, yard”), Faroese, Icelandic garður (“garden; fence”), Norn gart (“farm”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk gard, gård (“farm; townhouse”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 (gards, “court, yard; house”), Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian го́род (górod, “town”), Serbo-Croatian grad (“town”), Slovene grad (“castle”), Albanian gardh (“fence”), Romanian gard (“fence”), Avestan 𐬔𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬛𐬵𐬀 (gərədha, “dev's cave”), Sanskrit गृह (gṛha, “house, habitation, home, dwelling”)), Medieval Latin gardinus, jardinus (“garden, yard”). Doublet of garden, garth, and gord.
词源 2
From Middle English yerde, yerd, ȝerde, from Old English ġierd (“branch; rod, staff; measuring stick; yardland”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaʀd, from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz. Cognate with Dutch gard (“twig”), German Gerte and probably related to Latin hasta (“spear”).
词源 3
Clipping of milliard.
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