(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.
Yardstick
Definition:
(n.) A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) To measure the drug response, the extent of clinical improvement following treatment was used as a yardstick.
(2) Using the DSM-3 diagnosis as a yardstick, the performance of the hospital anxiety depression scale was compared with that of the general health questionnaire.
(3) The Goslon (Great Ormond Street, London and Oslo) Yardstick is a clinical tool that allows categorization of the dental relationships in the late mixed and or early permanent dentition stage into five discrete categories.
(4) With regard to glutathione, directly measured decrease, as compared to control levels, may be used as the yardstick of the changes.
(5) In our opinion our observations do not demonstrate a better capacity of recovery of the young patients: but the young patients show a more severe clinical picture than the older patients do, if only the clinical syndrome of coma grade III with extensor rigidity, is considered as a yardstick for comparison.
(6) By those yardsticks, 2010 is doing its best to oblige and the debate last night undoubtedly helped.
(7) The 15N-excretion via the urine, in terms of % of N absorbed from the food protein, served as yardstick of protein quality under maintenance conditions.
(8) The surge of populist, nationalist movements in Europe , and their apparent counterpart in the US, has stirred unhappy memories and has, perhaps inevitably, had commentators and others reaching for the historical yardstick to see if today measures up to 80 years ago.
(9) The unemployment rate using the internationally agreed yardstick for calculating joblessness rose to 7.9% for May to July, from 7.7% in February to April.
(10) However, this simplified yardstick should not be applied for comparison of the carcinogenic potency of different types of PAH-containing exhausts.
(11) Even when women succeed, the male norm remains the yardstick.
(12) He argued that the government's inexperience and "perhaps a touch of recklessness" had led Osborne to repeatedly cite the UK's credit rating as such an important yardstick.
(13) Obtained value of fractal dimension of protein surface (ds congruent to 2.2) is in a good agreement with the results of conventional approach (with variation of yardstick length) to protein surface fractality.
(14) The increase in the CPI measure of inflation was matched by a rise in the alternative yardstick of the cost of living, the retail prices index, which rose from 5.1% to 5.5% last month, its highest for 20 years.
(15) By that ultimate yardstick of superpower status, nuclear weapons, the US far outstrips China.
(16) Professor Mike Hough, who was in the team that started the Home Office's then British crime survey in the early 1980s, says the fact that both the key yardsticks – the official crime survey and the police statistics – point in the same direction suggests there has been a "real and welcome fall" in crime.
(17) On this basis, the use of a specific probing depth at 3 or 12 months following treatment as a yardstick for the provision of supplementary treatment may not be justified.
(18) So says Richard Burger, regulatory partner at City law firm RPC , anyway: “The number of prosecutions achieved by the regulators with their new powers will be seen as the yardstick of their success.
(19) The effect of pharmacological immunosuppression with either cortisone acetate or cyclosporine provided a "yardstick" to measure the magnitude of transfusion effects.
(20) The government has two ways of calculating unemployment: the claimant count, a narrow measure of the number of people out of work and claiming certain state benefits; and the Labour Force Survey, an internationally-agreed yardstick that classifies someone as unemployed if they are out of work and have actively looked for a job in the past month.