noun
1 piece of land next to a building
ADJECTIVE
▪ front
▪ back (usually backyard ) , rear ( esp. BrE )
▪ church (usually churchyard ) , farm (usually farmyard ) , kitchen ( BrE ), school ( esp. AmE )
▪
kids playing in the school ~
▪ livery ( BrE ), stable
▪ exercise , prison
▪
The prisoners were taken to the exercise ~.
VERB + YARD
▪ enter , leave
▪
He entered the ~ through the back gate.
▪
I left our school ~ at recess and ran home.
▪ enclose , surround
▪
The ~ was enclosed by a high wire fence.
2 ( AmE ) piece of land next to a house with grass ⇨ See also ↑ garden
ADJECTIVE
▪ back (usually backyard ) , front , side
▪ big , huge , large
▪ small , tiny
▪ fenced
▪
I have a well fenced ~ far away from roads.
VERB + YARD
▪ mow , rake , water
▪
My next-door neighbor was watering her ~.
▪ landscape
▪
I've landscaped my tiny front ~ with tall grasses.
▪ decorate
▪
The outside ~ was decorated with orange lights.
▪ fence
▪
The front ~ is fenced for privacy.
▪ cover
▪
Most of the ~ was covered with leaves.
▪ cross
▪
We crossed the ~ to my house.
▪ enter , leave
▪ overlook
▪
the huge bay window overlooking the ~
YARD + NOUN
▪ sale
▪
I held a ~ sale to get rid of my old stuff.
▪ sign
▪
The first Bush-Cheney ~ sign appeared on my street last week.
PREPOSITION
▪ in ~
▪
She was standing in the ~.
PHRASES
▪ the corner of the ~ , the edge of the ~ , the middle of the ~ , the side of the ~
3 area used for a special purpose
ADJECTIVE
▪ lumber (usually lumberyard ) ( AmE ), timber ( BrE )
▪
wood from a lumber ~
▪ freight , marshalling ( BrE ), rail , railroad ( AmE ), railway ( BrE )
▪ boat (usually boatyard ) , ship (usually shipyard ) , shipbuilding
▪ breaker's ( BrE ), junk (usually junkyard ) ( esp. AmE ), salvage ( esp. AmE ), scrap (usually scrapyard ) ( esp. BrE )
▪
The steam tug was on her way to the breaker's ~ at the end of her naval service.
▪
salvage ~s with cars that are being sold for parts
▪ repair , storage
PHRASES
▪ a builder's ~ , the knacker's ~ (both BrE )
▪
a horse condemned to the knacker's ~
▪
The company is heading for the knacker's ~. ( figurative )
4 unit of measurement