yard
英 [jɑːd]
美[jɑd]
- n. 院子；码（英制中丈量长度单位，1码=3英尺）；庭院；帆桁
- vt. 把…关进或围在畜栏里
- n. (Yard)人名；(英)亚德
英英释意
- 1. a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- 2. the enclosed land around a house or other building;
- "it was a small house with almost no yard"
- 3. 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"
- 4. an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
- 5. an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
- 6. a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
- 7. a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
- 8. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100