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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++yard /jɑːd $ jɑːrd/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] 1 measure 量度 (written abbreviation yd)TM a unit for measuring length, equal to three feet or 0.91 metres 码〔长度单位，等于3英尺或0.91米〕 a hundred yards away 100码外 an area of 9,000 square yards 面积为9,000平方码的一片区域2 enclosed area 封闭的区域TBAREA an enclosed area next to a building or group of buildings, used for a special purpose, activity, or business 〔专门用途、活动或事务的〕场所；围场；场地 a builder’s yard 建筑工地 a timber yard 木场prison/school yard (=an area outside a prison or school where prisoners or students do activities outdoors) 监狱放风场/学校操场3 garden 园子 American EnglishDLG the area around a house, usually covered with grass 〔房子周围通常种满草的〕庭院 SYN British English gardenfront/back yard The kids were playing in the back yard. 孩子们在后院玩耍。4. back of house 房子后部 British EnglishDH an enclosed area without grass at the back of a small house 〔封闭、没有草的〕后院 → backyard
Examples from the Corpus
yard• This week Woosnam was averaging 288 yards with his driver, Parry 257.• He was framed in a window less than a yard away.• A yard that went on for ever.• People who know her say she has a sense of the world beyond her own sizable back yard.• a prison exercise yard• He punted the few yards to the shore.• I saw nothing of the scenery; visibility was down to fifty yards.• Lost Jaguar and butterflies Next door, Steve Fischer waded through his front yard.• The ship will be moved to the Philadelphia Naval Yard next year.• The ball landed in the neighbors' yard.• Ten yards to go and he heard the driver of the Discovery accelerate away from the roadblock.square yards• The cemetery, which contains graves of men, women and children, covers about 15,000 square yards.• A daunting task lay ahead, as the spoil heaps covered an area of about 300 square yards.• I found where they had bedded down as a group, within about 50 square yards.• Sadler's used 1,900 square yards - made more impervious to the gas by an inner coat of rubber.• All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space.• So four hundred square yards became an everyday world.• Crumbling bollards sprouted from the broken pavement that surrounded several hundred square yards of murky water; warehouses hemmed in the dock.• A few varieties of supple-stemmed rambler are just as suitable for this purpose, covering many square yards once they become established.prison/school yard• In a moment, a wave must have swept across the prison yard outside.• Now, on a bright September morning, the sun shone warmly on the terrible little group that crossed the prison yard.• Gandhi lay on a white cot in the prison yard under a spreading mango tree.• Every day the Civil War got replayed in the school yard, and I kept losing.• He felt it most strongly in the prison yard, near the hanging-shed.• Prentice got out of his Escort and locked it, then pointed to the gates of the school yard.• After breakfast the male inmates went outside to the prison yard for exercises, which included jumping over long bamboo sticks.• C., recently threw a football past their school yard fence and into the street.front/back yard• Even when I was a toddler, a pick-your-own trip to her back yard was the highlight of any visit.• Tyros get kick-started by taking shoeless jaunts around their house, back yard and neighborhood before hitting the trail.• The ceaseless deluge had turned the small front yard of the cottage into a swamp.• I prefer to be in the front yard.• The three adults seemed to be catapulted from their seats as they ran out into the back yard.• It was cool and fresh in the summer, the back yard blooming with wallflowers and purple bells.• But camped out in their front yard, so to speak, we suddenly felt very exposed.• I shall never never never forget your back yard, planetarium and ham radio shed.the YardYard, the an informal name for Scotland Yard 苏格兰场〔Scotland Yard 的非正式名称〕From Longman Business Dictionaryyardyard /jɑːdjɑːrd/ noun [countable]1 written abbreviation yd. a unit for measuring length, equal to 3 feet or 0.9144 metres2PROPERTYan enclosed area next to a building or group of buildings, used for a special purpose, activity, or businessTheir house is next to a builder’s yard.a timber yard → see also stockyardOrigin yard 1. Old English geard, gierd “stick”2. Old English geard “enclosed area”unit or equal to for three length, Corpus feet measuring a Business
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yard S2 W2 /jɑːd $ jɑːrd/ noun [countable]
Origin: geard, gierd 'stick'
Origin: geard 'enclosed area'1. MEASURE (written abbreviation yd) a unit for measuring length, equal to three feet or 0.91 metres:
a hundred yards away
an area of 9,000 square yards
2. ENCLOSED AREA an enclosed area next to a building or group of buildings, used for a special purpose, activity, or business:
a builder’s yard
a timber yard
prison/school yard (=an area outside a prison or school where prisoners or students do activities outdoors)
3. GARDEN American English the area around a house, usually covered with grass
SYN garden British English
front/back yard
The kids were playing in the back yard.
4. BACK OF HOUSE British English an enclosed area without grass at the back of a small house ⇨ backyard
yard S2 W2 /jɑːd $ jɑːrd/
noun [countable] Sense 1
Language: Old EnglishOrigin: geard, gierd 'stick'
Sense 2-4
Language: Old EnglishOrigin: geard 'enclosed area'
2. ENCLOSED AREA an enclosed area next to a building or group of buildings, used for a special purpose, activity, or business:
prison/school yard (=an area outside a prison or school where prisoners or students do activities outdoors)
3. GARDEN American English the area around a house, usually covered with grass
SYN garden British English
front/back yard
4. BACK OF HOUSE British English an enclosed area without grass at the back of a small house ⇨ backyard
factory a building or group of buildings where goods are made 指工厂、制造厂 ：◆ a chocolate/cigarette/clothing factory 巧克力厂；香烟厂；制衣厂 plant a factory or place where power is produced or an industrial process takes place 指发电厂、工厂 ：◆ a nuclear power plant 核电厂 ◆ a manufacturing plant 制造厂 mill a factory that produces a particular type of material 指（生产特定材料的）工厂、制造厂 ：◆ a cotton/paper/textile/woollen mill 棉纺厂；造纸厂；纺织厂；毛纺厂 works (often in compounds) a place where things are made or an industrial process takes place （常构成复合词）指工厂、制造厂 ：◆ a brickworks 砖厂 ◆ a steelworks 炼钢厂 ◆ Raw materials were carried to the works by barge. 原材料由驳船运到工厂。 yard (usually in compounds) an area of land used for building sth （通常构成复合词）指建造某物的区域、场地 ：◆ a shipyard 船坞 workshop a room or building in which things are made or repaired using tools or machinery 指车间、工场、作坊 ：◆ a car repair workshop 汽车修理厂 foundry a factory where metal or glass is melted and made into different shapes or objects 指铸造厂、玻璃厂 ：◆ an iron foundry 铸铁厂
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