Synonyms for yard
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1. yard, pacenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   footstep, cubic yard, one thousand, gait, tread, railyard, railway yard, pace, grounds, step, tempo, thou, curtilage, grand, thousand, rate, stride, chiliad

2. yard, grounds, curtilagenoun

   the enclosed land around a house or other building

   "it was a small house with almost no yard"

   Synonyms:
   reason, cause, cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, evidence, grand

3. yardnoun

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

   "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town"

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

4. thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yardnoun

   the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

   Synonyms:
   railyard, megabyte, special K, green, guanine, gigabyte, super C, kibibyte, potassium, thousand, mebibyte, g-force, metre, cat valium, universal gravitational constant, atomic number 19, gibibyte, railway yard, kB, curtilage, grounds, grand, super acid, kelvin, gramme, pace, kilobyte, gee, chiliad, cubic yard, molar concentration, deoxyguanosine monophosphate, molarity, meter, honey oil, constant of gravitation, gravitational constant, one thousand, gram, grand piano, thou, gm, jet

5. cubic yard, yardnoun

   a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

6. yardnoun

   a tract of land where logs are accumulated

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

7. yard, railway yard, railyardnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

8. yardnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

9. yardnoun

   an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

Matched Categories

1. • Enclosure
   • Field
   • Large Integer
   • Linear Unit
   • Spar
   • Tract
   • Volume Unit

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1. take something in stride

   to cope with something unfortunate without much effort; to accept or manage difficulties well.

   he took it in stride when they attempted to ostracize him

   Submitted by anonymous on April 7, 2020  

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1. yardnoun

   Synonyms:
   enclosure, COMPOUND

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1. yardnoun

   Synonyms:
   three feet, enclosure, court, area, garth, courtyard, quadrangle, curtilage (Law)

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1. List of paraphrases for "yard":

   triage, garden, courtyard, patio, backyard, sorting, court, jardin, square, shunting, marshalling, yards, shipyard, al-haidari, chantier, verge

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How to use yard in a sentence?

1. Douglas Kratt:

   Even if you didn't set off fireworks yourself, debris can make The Fourth way into your yard, where curious animals may pick it up to play with or eat.

2. Ken Burchell:

   We certainly do hoist rescues, we do med-evacs, we search for snipers, we do aerial coordination, we do all of those things, but at Navy Yard, we had to do all those things at once, and that was a huge challenge.

3. Boston College:

   I want to reach whatever potential I can, so I dont have a (goal) for however many yards or average yards per carry, because the thing is, if my team needs me to run down the clock in the fourth quarter and Im getting a bunch of 1-yard gains, Im fine with that and Im happy with that. I dont really care what it might look like at the very end on the stat line.

4. Emmitt Smith:

   Spotting them a 21-point lead was like spotting Carl Lewis 20 yards in a 100-yard dash.

5. Englishman Willett:

   I said yesterday it could be Armageddon today and it was this morning, luckily we didn't have to play in the rain. The wind we had was a good wind for St Andrews, a 20 to 30-yard wind. It was playable, you can certainly hit golf shots and it wasn't too ridiculous.