Yard vs. Garden
By Muazma Batool — Published on February 14, 2023
Difference Between Yard and Garden
Yard vs. Garden Definitions
◉Yard
Abbr. yd. A fundamental unit of length in both the US Customary System and the British Imperial System, equal to 3 feet, or 36 inches (0.9144 meter). See Table at measurement.
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◉Garden
A plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit.
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◉Yard
(Nautical) A long tapering spar slung to a mast to support and spread the head of a square sail, lugsail, or lateen.
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◉Garden
An arrangement of living material that is cultivated for food, as a fungus garden maintained by ants.
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◉Garden
often gardens Grounds laid out with flowers, trees, and ornamental shrubs and used for recreation or display
public gardens.
a botanical garden.
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◉Yard
A tract of ground next to, surrounding, or surrounded by a building or buildings.
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◉Yard
A tract of ground, often enclosed, used for a specific business or activity.
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◉Yard
An area where railroad trains are made up and cars are switched, stored, and serviced on tracks and sidings.
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◉Yard
A somewhat sheltered area where deer or other browsing animals congregate during the winter.
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◉Yard
An enclosed tract of ground in which animals, such as chickens or pigs, are kept.
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◉Yard
To gather together into a yard
The deer are yarding up in their winter grounds.
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◉Yard
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
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◉Yard
The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
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◉Yard
An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
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◉Garden
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
a vegetable garden
a flower garden
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◉Yard
A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
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◉Garden
(in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.
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◉Garden
(attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
a garden party;
a garden path;
a garden spade
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◉Yard
A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
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◉Garden
The grounds at the front or back of a house.
This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden.
We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden.
Our garden is overgrown with weeds.
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◉Yard
(nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
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◉Garden
to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
I love to garden — this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.
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◉Garden
Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
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◉Garden
A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
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◉Yard
(obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
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◉Garden
A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,The pleasant garden of great Italy.
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◉Garden
To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
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◉Yard
(finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
I need to hedge a yard of yen.
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◉Garden
the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden
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◉Yard
A branch; a twig.
The bitter frosts with the sleet and rainDestroyed hath the green in every yerd.
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◉Yard
A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
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◉Yard
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.
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◉Yard
A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
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◉Yard
An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.
A yard . . . inclosed all about with sticksIn which she had a cock, hight chanticleer.
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◉Yard
An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
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◉Yard
To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
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◉Yard
a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
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◉Yard
the enclosed land around a house or other building;
it was a small house with almost no yard
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◉Yard
a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings);
they opened a repair yard on the edge of town
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◉Yard
an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
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◉Yard
a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
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