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yard
What does yard mean?
yard (noun): a small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use yard in a sentence?
- It was a small house with almost no yard. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce yard?
/jɑɹd/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does yard come from?
From Middle English yerd, yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “yard” mean?
a person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)
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a valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed
Not quite: that's what throttle means.
a small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building
Right! That's what “yard” means.
the part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered
Not quite: that's what lap means.
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