Yard vs. Foot

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

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

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

(Jamaica) One’s house or home.

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).

Units of similar composition or length in other systems.

(nautical) Any spar carried aloft.

(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.

(obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.

(obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.

A penis.

100 dollars.

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

(obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16½ feet.

(obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¼ acre.

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

Example: ‘I need to hedge a yard of yen.’;

(transitive) To confine to a yard.

A rod; a stick; a staff.

Example: ‘If men smote it with a yerde.’;

A branch; a twig.

Example: ‘The bitter frosts with the sleet and rainDestroyed hath the green in every yerd.’;

A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.

A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.

The penis.

A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.

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

An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.

Example: ‘A yard . . . inclosed all about with sticksIn which she had a cock, hight chanticleer.’;

An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.

To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.

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

the enclosed land around a house or other building;

Example: ‘it was a small house with almost no yard’;

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’;

an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length, in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement, that comprises 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it is by international agreement standardized as exactly 0.9144 meters.

(countable) A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. t

Example: ‘A spider has eight feet.’;

Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. t

Example: ‘Southern Italy is shaped like a foot.’;

Travel by walking. walking

Example: ‘We went there by foot because we could not afford a taxi.’; ‘There is a lot of foot traffic on this street.’;

(countable) The base or bottom of anything. t

Example: ‘I'll meet you at the foot of the stairs.’;

(countable) The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.

Example: ‘We came and stood at the foot of the bed.’;

(countable) The end of a rectangular table opposite the head. co

Example: ‘The host should sit at the foot of the table.’;

(countable) A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it. t

Example: ‘The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor.’;

(countable) A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres. co

Example: ‘The flag pole at the local high school is about 20 feet high.’;

A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.

Foot soldiers; infantry. co

Example: ‘King John went to battle with ten thousand foot and one thousand horse.’;

The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.

The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.

The bottommost part of a typed or printed page. co

(printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.

The basic measure of rhythm in a poem. t

The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.

The bottom edge of a sail. t

Example: ‘To make the mainsail fuller in shape, the outhaul is eased to reduce the tension on the foot of the sail.’;

The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.

In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.

The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.

The globular lower domain of a protein. co

The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.

Fundamental principle; basis; plan.

Recognized condition; rank; footing.

The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes.

The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.

That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.

The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain, column, or page; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed; ; the foot of the page.

Example: ‘And now at footOf heaven's ascent they lift their feet.’;

Fundamental principle; basis; plan; - used only in the singular.

Example: ‘Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason.’;

Recognized condition; rank; footing; - used only in the singular.

Example: ‘As to his being on the foot of a servant.’;

A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.

Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry.

A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.

The lower edge of a sail.

To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.

To walk; - opposed to ride or fly.

To kick with the foot; to spurn.

To set on foot; to establish; to land.

Example: ‘What confederacy have you with the traitorsLate footed in the kingdom?’;

To tread; as, to foot the green.

To sum up, as the numbers in a column; - sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.

To seize or strike with the talon.

To renew the foot of, as of a stocking.

Example: ‘If you are for a merry jaunt, I'll try, for once, who can foot it farthest.’;

a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard;

Example: ‘he is six feet tall’;

the foot of a human being;

Example: ‘his bare feet projected from his trousers’; ‘armored from head to foot’;

the lower part of anything;

Example: ‘curled up on the foot of the bed’; ‘the foot of the page’; ‘the foot of the list’; ‘the foot of the mountain’;

travel by foot;

Example: ‘he followed on foot’; ‘the swiftest of foot’;

a foot of a vertebrate other than a human being

a support resembling a pedal extremity;

Example: ‘one foot of the chair was on the carpet’;

lowest support of a structure;

Example: ‘it was built on a base of solid rock’; ‘he stood at the foot of the tower’;

any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates

an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot;

Example: ‘there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot’;

a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger

a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm

pay for something;

Example: ‘pick up the tab’; ‘pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages’; ‘foot the bill’;

walk;

Example: ‘let's hoof it to the disco’;

add a column of numbers

the lower extremity of the leg below the ankle, on which a person stands or walks.

a corresponding part of the leg in vertebrate animals.

a locomotory or adhesive organ of an invertebrate.

the part of a sock, stocking, etc. that covers the foot.

a person's body below the torso, including the entire leg and the foot.

a person's manner or speed of walking or running

Example: ‘fleet of foot’;

infantry; foot soldiers

Example: ‘a captain of foot’;

a projecting part on which a piece of furniture or each of its legs stands.

a device on a sewing machine for holding the material steady as it is sewn.

the part by which a petal is attached.

the lower or lowest part of something; the base or bottom

Example: ‘complete the form at the foot of the page’; ‘the foot of the stairs’;

the end of a table that is furthest from where the host sits.

the end of a bed, couch, or grave where the occupant's feet normally rest.

the lower edge of a sail.

a unit of linear measure equal to 12 inches (30.48 cm)

Example: ‘he's about six feet tall’; ‘shallow water no more than a foot deep’;

a unit used in describing a set of organ pipes according to its pitch, the designation being the length of one particular pipe

Example: ‘an 8-foot reed stop’;

a unit used in describing a set of harpsichord strings playing at the same pitch as a set of organ pipes of the same designation

Example: ‘the 16-foot register’;

a group of syllables constituting a metrical unit. In English poetry it consists of stressed and unstressed syllables, while in ancient classical poetry it consists of long and short syllables.

cover a distance, especially a long one, on foot

Example: ‘the rider was left to foot it ten or twelve miles back to camp’;

dance

Example: ‘the dance of fairies, footing it to the cricket's song’;

The foot (plural: feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion.