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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#m1)

2) A yard is a unit of length. A yard is 3 feet. A yard is 36 inches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#m2)

3) A yard is an open area for work or play, like a school yard, a farmyard or a shipyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#x1)
- She bought 5 yards of ribbon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#x2)
- One yard is 3 feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#x3)
- The field is 100 yards long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#x4)
- The kids played in the front yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#x5)
- We had a yard sale on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#x6)
- The ship was built in a shipyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#x7)
- The farmyard was full of chickens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#x8)
- He ran 40 yards for a touchdown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#x9)
- A yard is a little shorter than a meter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#x10)
- Out they went into the yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/#x11)

### 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!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/6/)
- ["Sent to the knacker's yard" (old-fashioned UK) means an old horse was sent to be slaughtered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/17/)
- [Jack in Liverpool got a note home about a fight in the yard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/0/)
- [One yard is 3 feet, and one foot is 12 inches.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/100-two-step-measures/0/)
- [A plan is a detailed map of a small place, such as a room or a school yard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «yard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.