What's the difference between fard and yard?

Fard


Definition:

  • (n.) Paint used on the face.
  • (v. t.) To paint; -- said esp. of one's face.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is in Fard’s memory that Saviour’s Day is held.
  • (2) Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Nation Of Islam, sold silk and salvation in Paradise during the Great Depression.
  • (3) The experimental data collected in previous studies on experienced (industrial) and inexperienced (non-industrial) materials handlers (Mital 1984a, Mital and Fard 1986) and the patterns of responses between the two populations (Mital 1985, 1987) were used to generate this database.
  • (4) But according to Karl Evanzz, author of The Messenger: The Rise And Fall Of Elijah Muhammad, his real name was Wali Dodd Fard, “a mulatto who immigrated to the United States from New Zealand in the early 1900s”.
  • (5) The fact that Fard had set up a religious institution for black people is not remarkable.
  • (6) For Fard was not a theorist but a fantasist: a man of many disguises, an uncertain background and some very idiosyncratic ideas.
  • (7) And it is from Fard’s legacy that Farrakhan is desperate to distance himself.
  • (8) Fard’s message proved so potent it woke her husband from his inebriated state and made him Fard’s most devoted student.
  • (9) When Fard disappeared a few years later (the last anyone heard from him was a postcard from Mexico), Elijah Poole claimed his mantle.

Yard


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A rod; a stick; a staff.
  • (v. i.) A branch; a twig.
  • (v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
  • (v. i.) A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
  • (v. i.) The penis.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (n.) An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.
  • (n.) An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
  • (v. t.) To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
  • (2) Osman had gone close before that, flashing a shot over from seven yards after a corner.
  • (3) There were still 25 seconds left on the clock when Vernon Davis reeled in a catch at the Baltimore nine-yard line, but San Francisco could not convert on second or third down.
  • (4) When one pig was housed in a hut with a small outside yard a nychthemeral rhythm was sometimes superimposed on that imposed by feeding.
  • (5) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.
  • (6) It hasn't been so exposed to the brutal learning culture Scotland Yard has been through with cases like Stephen Lawrence and Victoria Climbié.
  • (7) The Bears put together a 74 yard drive capped off by a Matt Forte run to give the Bears a one point lead... rather than "run" as I said earlier.
  • (8) The police on Scotland Yard's press operation Kit Malthouse, assembly member chair, Metropolitan Police Authority "I doubt whether money is changing hands.
  • (9) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
  • (10) Until that point, Bravo had looked assured, often straying 30 yards off his goal-line and confident enough to try a couple of passes that many goalkeepers would consider too risky.
  • (11) Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, made the comments as he announced that Scotland Yard has begun two new inquiries.
  • (12) Yards away from a genuine station, he used a huge funnel to fill up a car sagging under the weight of its occupants and market produce.
  • (13) Dortmund seemed certain to score after Reus and Grosskreutz swapped passes on the edge of the area and Reuz tapped the ball into the path of Gundogan, charging in to meet it five yards out.
  • (14) The subjects responded to a mail survey that defined before surgery and after recovery functioning in relation to 22 activities of daily living representing personal care, housework-yard work, and recreation-social activities.
  • (15) Scotland Yard announced its decision to investigate a few hours after John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, complained that Deen had not been arrested.
  • (16) John Yates, a Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, was criticised by the Conservative chairman of the Commons culture and media select committee, John Whittingdale, for failing to disclose information to MPs, but the Yard continues to refuse to say how many victims it has warned, and how many members of the royal household, military, police and government have been warned of evidence that Mulcaire intercepted their voicemail.
  • (17) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
  • (18) 8.51pm GMT Falcons 27 - Seahawks 21, 3:35 4th of quarter The smash mouth Falcons are back on first down, Turner has 12 more yards.
  • (19) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
  • (20) 7.48pm BST 2 min: Blaszczykowski runs towards the Bayern box for the first time but Ribéry tracks him all the way and eventually dispossesses him some 20 yards out.

Words possibly related to "fard"