What's the difference between farmyard and yard?

Farmyard


Definition:

  • (n.) The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (2) Results of all the parameters tested showed markedly higher increases with farmyard manure than with nitrogenous fertilizer and in the control, without significant differences between the latter two.
  • (3) It has been proved that the method can be successfully used for the determination of biochemical changes in microbe cultures, the soil, in composts, in farmyard manures etc.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An example of a rare Bechstein’s bat roost in a partially hollow oak tree, Finemere Wood, Buckinghamshire, ancient wood and nature reserve next to HS2 Photograph: Patrick Barkham for the Guardian After Prideaux dropped me off in a neighbour’s muddy farmyard, I climbed a hill into Finemere Woods, an ancient woodland owned by Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust .
  • (5) Farmyard manure applied to some experimental plots at Rothamsted appears to have been a more significant source of Cd than combined atmospheric and phosphate fertiliser inputs.
  • (6) Therefore, to reduce the likelihood of transmission of T. spiralis between rats and swine, it is essential that rat populations in a farmyard environment be controlled.
  • (7) 'You have to take into account emissions that occurred in the farmyard, for example.
  • (8) Gallop poll Because … Horses are by far and away the most searched-for farmyard animal of them all … … and our obsession with all things equine cannot be allowed to become any more intense – the future of the human race depends on it.
  • (9) Addition of 2% farmyard manure to the richer soil enhanced this effect.
  • (10) My daughter and I had lunch at a farmyard café in east London with an old university friend and her three-year-old son, and everyone from the girl on the counter to the mums that packed out the place assumed we must be a couple.
  • (11) The clinical entity in humans should be called farmyard pox regardless of the species of virus isolated.
  • (12) It has been established that the absolute number of S. calcitrans subpopulation can be as high as 100,000 specimens per a farmyard.
  • (13) Samples were treated with farmyard manure at rates of 0 and 0.5% C, and moisture at levels of 50, 65, and 80% of the water holding capacity.
  • (14) After 3 monts of the experiment the Coliform titre decreased to 101 in the liquid manure, but to 104 in the farmyard manure.
  • (15) Back in her farmyard, Hobbs looks at the array of buildings, some in a better state of repair than others.
  • (16) The pathogens do not survive very long in stored farmyard manure because of the temperatures and biological and biochemical activities prevailing in the middens.
  • (17) Turn left into the village at the Bay Horse, then take the second lane on the left and follow brown signs This spick-and-span, friendly farm has a farmyard full of toys to ride, from tots' scuttlebugs to grown-ups' go-karts.
  • (18) In contrast to the farmyard manure, in the liqued dung thermophilic actinomycetes did not occur at all.
  • (19) The study site included a farmyard, schools, a bat cave, rice paddies and a heronry.
  • (20) The development of meso- and thermophilic microorganisms proceeded more strongly in the examined farmyard manure than in the liquid cattle manure.

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.

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