Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhahtava) yeard
- (rikkinäinen englanti) yod
- (vanhentunut) yaird
Ääntäminen
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- UK:
- Tuntematon aksentti:
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (Wikipedia).
- (nautical) 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 latter two hang obliquely.
- (finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
- An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- (nautical) Any spar carried aloft (Wikipedia).
- (Jamaica) One’s house or home.
- A staff, rod or stick.
- A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK; Wikipedia).
- (US, slang) One hundred dollars.
- (obsolete) The penis.
Verbit
- (transitive) To confine to a yard.
Esimerkit
- '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.
- A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
- As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods.
- 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.
- there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard, and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes.
- I need to hedge a yard of yen.
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