Yard vs. Foot

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

(Jamaica) One’s house or home.

Yardnoun

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).

Yardnoun

Units of similar composition or length in other systems.

Yardnoun

(nautical) Any spar carried aloft.

Yardnoun

(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.

Yardnoun

(obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.

Yardnoun

(obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.

Yardnoun

A penis.

Yardnoun

100 dollars.

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

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

Yardverb

(transitive) To confine to a yard.

Yardnoun

A rod; a stick; a staff.

Yardnoun

A branch; a twig.

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

The penis.

Yardnoun

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.

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

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

Yardverb

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

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

the enclosed land around a house or other building;

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

Yardnoun

a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

Yardnoun

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

Yardnoun

the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Yard

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.

Footnoun

(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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

Travel by walking. walking

Footnoun

(countable) The base or bottom of anything. t

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

Foot soldiers; infantry. co

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

The bottommost part of a typed or printed page. co

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

The basic measure of rhythm in a poem. t

Footnoun

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.

Footnoun

The bottom edge of a sail. t

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

The globular lower domain of a protein. co

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

Fundamental principle; basis; plan.

Footnoun

Recognized condition; rank; footing.

Footnoun

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.

Footnoun

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.

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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.

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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.

Footnoun

The lower edge of a sail.

Footverb

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

Footverb

To walk; - opposed to ride or fly.

Footverb

To kick with the foot; to spurn.

Footverb

To set on foot; to establish; to land.

Footverb

To tread; as, to foot the green.

Footverb

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

Footverb

To seize or strike with the talon.

Footverb

To renew the foot of, as of a stocking.

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

the foot of a human being;

Footnoun

the lower part of anything;

Footnoun

travel by foot;

Footnoun

a foot of a vertebrate other than a human being

Footnoun

a support resembling a pedal extremity;

Footnoun

lowest support of a structure;

Footnoun

any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates

Footnoun

an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot;

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footverb

pay for something;

Footverb

walk;

Footverb

add a column of numbers

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

a corresponding part of the leg in vertebrate animals.

Footnoun

a locomotory or adhesive organ of an invertebrate.

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

a person's manner or speed of walking or running

Footnoun

infantry; foot soldiers

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

the part by which a petal is attached.

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

the lower edge of a sail.

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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

Footnoun

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.

Footverb

cover a distance, especially a long one, on foot

Footverb

dance

Foot

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.