yard 的定义
- a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
- Nautical. a long spar, supported more or less at its center, to which the head of a square sail, lateen sail, or lugsail is bent.
- yard-of-ale.
- Informal. a large quantity or extent.
- Slang. one hundred or, usually, one thousand dollars.
yard 近义词
grassy area around a structure
更多yard例句
- Others munch on the berries and other fruits that people grow in their yards.
- For years, Amazon has envisioned deploying drones to deliver packages to customers’ yards.
- Then, as now, development regulations in the city placed standalone homes with their own yards — and the residents who could afford them — above all else.
- These numbers may vary depending on your pet’s age and energy level, as well as whether you have a fenced-in yard.
- It means someone went out and put a bunch of yard signs out.
- Jettison your lawyers as a source of prison-yard guidance, Abramoff said.
- Parker writes of the “black-faced doe” that he sees in the yard in his new Texas house.
- Just right for that person who needs a little creative push to do something daring in their yard.
- Later that day he made a call from the row of phones in the yard and reached his wife for the first time in six months.
- The victim was himself dangerous, and also the strongest man in the yard.
- Sol got up, slowly; took a backward step into the yard; filled his lungs, opened his mouth, made his eyes round.
- They ran side by side across the yard to a roofed flight of steps that led to the printing-office.
- After his death crowds flocked to his grave to touch his holy monument, till the authorities caused the church yard to be shut.
- In the court-yard of the hotel was standing the voiture, which had come in some twenty minutes before us.
- The huge sail thrust its yard high above the fog bank, and watchers on the river side saw it.