Yard

[jɑːd] or [jɑd]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock).

(noun.) a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen.

(noun.) the enclosed land around a house or other building; 'it was a small house with almost no yard'.

(noun.) an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines.

(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'.

(noun.) a tract of land where logs are accumulated.

(noun.) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride.

編輯:马克斯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) A rod; a stick; a staff.

(v. i.) A branch; a twig.

(v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.

(v. i.) A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.

(v. i.) The penis.

(v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.

(n.) An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.

(n.) An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.

(v. t.) To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.

手打:雷切尔

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Enclosure, COMPOUND.

整理:雪麗

解釋/意思:

n. an enclosed place esp. near a building as 'prison-yard ' or where any special work is carried on as 'brick-yard ' 'wood-yard ' 'dock-yard ' 'navy-yard:' a garden.—v.t. to enclose in a yard.—ns. Yard′age the use of a yard or the charge made for such: the cutting of coal at so much per yard; Yard′-land the amount of land held by a tenant in villeinage in older English usage varying from 15 to 40 acres; Yard′man the person having special charge of a farm-yard: one employed in a railway-yard in making up trains &c.; Yard′-mas′ter one who has the special oversight of a railway-yard.

n. an English measure of 3 feet or 36 inches: a long beam on a mast for spreading square sails: the penis.—ns. Yard′-arm either half of a ship's yard (right or left) from the centre to the end; Yard′stick a stick 3 feet long any standard of measurement—also Yard′wand.

手打:胡里奥