Yard vs. Garden

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.

Gardennoun

An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

Gardennoun

(in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

Gardennoun

(attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.

Gardennoun

The grounds at the front or back of a house.

Gardennoun

(cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.

Gardennoun

(figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.

Gardennoun

(slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

Gardenverb

to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

Gardenverb

of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

Gardenadjective

Common, ordinary, domesticated.

Gardennoun

A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

Gardennoun

A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.

Gardenverb

To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.

Gardenverb

To cultivate as a garden.

Gardennoun

a plot of ground where plants are cultivated

Gardennoun

the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden

Gardennoun

a yard or lawn adjoining a house

Gardenverb

work in the garden;

Gardennoun

a piece of ground adjoining a house, in which grass, flowers, and shrubs may be grown

Gardennoun

ornamental grounds laid out for public enjoyment and recreation

Gardennoun

a street or square

Gardennoun

a large public hall

Gardenverb

cultivate or work in a garden

Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, or enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature, as an ideal setting for social or solitary human life. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is control.