yard
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(noun) an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) |
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Related Words: barnyard, chicken run, chicken yard, enclosure, farmyard, fowl run, henyard, stockyard |
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(noun) a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen |
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Related Words: main yard, spar |
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(noun) the land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard at all" |
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Synonyms: grounds |
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Related Words: backyard, court, courtyard, dooryard, field, front yard, garden, playground, side yard |
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(noun) an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
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Synonyms: railway yard |
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Related Words: marshalling yard, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract |
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(noun) a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings); "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town" |
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Related Words: God's acre, churchyard, junkyard, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, schoolyard, tiltyard, tract |
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(noun) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride |
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Synonyms: pace |
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Related Words: linear unit |
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(noun) a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) |
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Synonyms: cubic yard |
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Related Words: capacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unit |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 |
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Synonyms: 1000, G, K, M, chiliad, grand, one thousand, thou, thousand |
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Related Words: large integer |
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