HyperDic is a hyper-dictionary based on WordNet 2.1. This version links 147,249 word forms.
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| Shopping | The largest selection of YARD products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | yaa'rd |
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| Rhymes | avant-garde, backyard, bard, and 46 more rhymes in aard... |
| Meaning | A unit of length equal to 3 feet. Defined as 91.44 centimeters. Originally taken to be the average length of a stride. |
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| Synonyms | pace |
| Part of | perch, rod, pole; chain; lea; fathom, fthm |
| Parts | foot, ft |
| Broader | linear unit |
| Meaning | The enclosed land around a house or other building. |
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| Examples | "it was a small house with almost no yard" |
| Synonyms | grounds, curtilage |
| Broader | field |
| Narrower | backyard; dooryard; front yard; garden; playground; side yard |
| Meaning | A tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings). |
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| Examples | "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town" |
| Broader | tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel |
| Narrower | junkyard; schoolyard; churchyard, God's acre; tiltyard |
| Meaning | An area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines. |
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| Synonyms | railway yard |
| Broader | tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel |
| Narrower | marshalling yard |
| Meaning | An enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock). |
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| Broader | enclosure |
| Narrower | barnyard; chicken yard, hen yard, chicken run, fowl run; farmyard; stockyard |
| Meaning | A unit of volume (as for sand or gravel). |
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| Synonyms | cubic yard |
| Broader | volume unit, capacity unit, capacity measure, cubage unit, cubic measure, cubic content unit, displacement unit, cubature unit |
| Meaning | A long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen. |
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| Part of | sailing vessel, sailing ship |
| Parts | yardarm |
| Broader | spar |
| Narrower | main yard |
| Meaning | The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100. |
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| Synonyms | thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou |
| Broader | large integer |
| Narrower | millenary |
| Meaning | A tract of land where logs are accumulated. |
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| Broader | tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel |
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