yard area

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• yard restriction — A restriction in a zoning law stipulating the minimum side or rear yard area, or the percentage of the area of a building lot that may be occupied by the building. 58 Am J1st Zon § 52 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• yard — W2S2 [ja:d US ja:rd] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(measure)¦ 2¦(enclosed area)¦ 3¦(garden)¦ 4¦(back of house)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Sense: 1; Origin: Old English geard, gierd stick ] [Sense: 2 4; Origin: Old E …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Yard (disambiguation) — Yard may mean: *Yard, a unit of length (3 feet) *Megalithic yard, a theoretical unit of prehistoric measurement *Yard (beer), an extremely long beer glass *Yard (land), an enclosed area, usually attached to a building, sometimes a garden (often… …   Wikipedia

• yard — [ jard ] noun count *** 1. ) AMERICAN an area around a house that is used for sitting, playing, and growing plants in. British garden a ) an enclosed area around a large building where people can do activities outside: a school/prison yard b ) a… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• yard — Ⅰ. yard [1] ► NOUN 1) a unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet (0.9144 metre). 2) a square or cubic yard, especially of sand or other building materials. 3) a cylindrical spar slung across a ship s mast for a sail to hang from. ● by the yard Cf.… …   English terms dictionary

• yard — ‘enclosed area’ [OE] and yard ‘three feet’ [OE] are distinct words, both of ancient ancestry. The former probably goes back ultimately to Indo European *ghorto , which also produced Latin cohors ‘court’ (source of English cohort and court) and… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• yard — ‘enclosed area’ [OE] and yard ‘three feet’ [OE] are distinct words, both of ancient ancestry. The former probably goes back ultimately to Indo European *ghorto , which also produced Latin cohors ‘court’ (source of English cohort and court) and… …   Word origins

• area — [er′ē ə] n. [L, vacant place, courtyard, prob. (in sense “arid, bare place”) < arere, to be dry: see ASH1] 1. a level surface or piece of ground 2. a part of the earth s surface; region; tract 3. the measure of a bounded region on a plane or… …   English World dictionary

• yard — index close (enclosed area), curtilage Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• yard — [n] grassy area around a structure backyard, barnyard, clearing, close, corral, court, courtyard, enclosure, fold, garden, grass, lawn, lot, patch, patio, playground, quadrangle, terrace; concept 509 …   New thesaurus

• yard|land — «YAHRD LAND», noun. an area of land held by a tenant in villeinage in early English manors, varying in different counties from 15 to 40 acres …   Useful english dictionary