(a.) A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ward ignored a weak challenge from young Darnell Furlong as two more experienced Rangers’ players loitered in the vicinity with little intent, then Ward made his way into the box and struck a shot that deflected off Sandro into the net.
(2) The course is a right-handed undulating track one mile and four furlongs long.
(3) The effects of lysophosphatidylcholine (lysoPC) on human erythrocyte (RBC) ghost morphology, transmembrane protein and lipid lateral mobilities, and membrane lipid composition were studied in order to elucidate mechanisms by which lysoPC immobilizes ghost membrane components [Golan, D. E., Brown, C. S., Cianci, C. M. L., Furlong, S. T., & Caulfield, J. P. (1986) J.
(4) And the final furlongs, Miliband's ideas were subjected to the searching gaze of the chancellor.
(5) Other changes to next year's race which have already been announced include a new position for the start, about half a furlong closer to the first fence.
(6) For this match he tried another, making four changes to the side that flopped so meekly at Crystal Palace last week , omitting Darnell Furlong, dropping Adel Taarabt to the bench and sending Shaun Wright-Phillips back to cold storage.
(7) Amino-terminal sequences derived from purified rabbit and human paraoxonase proteins suggested that the signal sequence is retained, with the exception of the initiator methionine residue [Furlong et al.
(8) Ross Furlong, an online public relations expert, said Brown's tweets could help Labour despite the fact that she does not use them for campaigning purposes.
(9) Furlong suspects that the idea of using Twitter did not come to her from public relations: "The PR world is still trying to work out what to do with Twitter.
(10) Jacob led over the last on Ulis De Vassy but was headed by Quaddick Lake inside the final half-furlong.
(11) Nevertheless, the deal is good news for investors, for chemical engineers and crucially, for our low-carbon future,” said Andrew Furlong, director of policy at the Institution of Chemical Engineers.
(12) The second approach took advantage of the fact that ISVPs grow in cells treated with NH4Cl, whereas intact virus does not grow under these conditions (L. J. Sturzenbecker, M. Nibert, D. Furlong, and B. N. Fields, J. Virol.
(13) 8.09pm BST 23 min: Brian Furlong wasn't exaggerating a great deal when he said the pitch was water-logged.
(14) Updated at 10.07pm BST 8.03pm BST 18 min: "We've 2 "You're the ref" scenarios so far tonight," writes Brian Furlong.
(15) The heights of 89 horses were measured at the withers before and after half a furlong of trotting exercise.
(16) These genes encode components of the high affinity ribose transport system in Escherichia coli, and together with the sequences of rbsB (Groarke, J.M., Mahoney, W.C., Hope, J.N., Furlong, C.E., Robb, F.T., Zalkin, H., and Hermodson, M.A.
(17) A Ticking Off Jamie Furlong Street photography project - A Ticking Off by Jamie Furlong Photograph: Jamie Furlong You can't tell what the father and son are doing, but their shadows tell you a lot more.
(18) "There's a lot of thought going into the restriction of publicity around her," says Furlong.
(19) "Although the content is deliberately not party political, she is effectively pressing voter flesh online, as she did in person at the Glenrothes byelection to great effect," Furlong said .
(20) Research carried out by Alasdair Forsyth and Andy Furlong at the University of Glasgow in the last 10 years has shown that students from lower socio-economic groups are more likely than their more advantaged peers to change courses, drop out because of debt or repeat a year, and less likely to achieve a degree or progress to post-degree study.
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.