yard - Meaning in Malayalam

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yard - Meaning in Malayalam

yard Word Forms & Inflections

Definitions and Meaning of yard in English

yard noun

1. an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
2. a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
3. the enclosed land around a house or other building

   Synonyms

   curtilage, grounds, grounds

   Example

   • "it was a small house with almost no yard"
4. an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

   Synonyms

   railway yard, railyard

5. a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)

   Example

   • "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town"
6. a tract of land where logs are accumulated
7. a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

   Synonyms

   cubic yard

8. a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

   Synonyms

   pace, pace, pace

9. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

   Synonyms

   1000, G, G, K, K, M, M, chiliad, grand, grand, one thousand, thou, thousand

Synonyms of yard

• curtilage, grounds
• railway yard, railyard
• cubic yard
• pace
• 1000, chiliad, g, grand, k, m, one thousand, thou, thousand

Description

The yard is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it has been by international agreement standardized as exactly 0.9144 meter. A distance of 1,760 yards is equal to 1 mile.

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