Definition of "yard" in Anglais

noun

1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.

2. (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.

3. An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.

4. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.

5. (Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.

verb

1. (transitive) To confine to a yard.

noun

1. A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).

2. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.

3. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.

4. (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.

5. (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.

6. (obsolete) A penis.

   • [T]he testicles are quite exposed, but they wrap a piece of cloth or leafe round the yard which they tye up to the belly to a cord or bandage which they wear round the waist just under the short ribbs and over the belly and so tight that it was a wonder to us how they could endure it.

7. (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.

8. (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.

9. (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.

10. (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.

verb

1. (intransitive, humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.

noun

1. (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.

   • I need to hedge a yard of yen.

2. (slang, drugs) One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth.

   • How much coke you want? Gimme a yard.