Factory vs. Yard — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Factory and Yard
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Factory
A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial site, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods being created or processed within factories.
Yard
A tract of ground, often enclosed, used for a specific business or activity.
Factory
A building or group of buildings in which goods are manufactured; a plant.
Yard
The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length, in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement, that comprises 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it is by international agreement standardized as exactly 0.9144 meters.
Factory
See factory ship.
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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.
Factory
A business establishment for commercial agents or factors in a foreign country.
Yard
(Nautical) A long tapering spar slung to a mast to support and spread the head of a square sail, lugsail, or lateen.
Factory
The source of prolific production
A rock group that was a hit-tune factory.
A motel that served as an illegal drug factory.
Yard
A square yard
Bought 4 yards of fabric.
Factory
The position or state of being a factor.
Yard
A cubic yard
Dug up 100 yards of soil.
Factory
A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
Yard
A tract of ground next to, surrounding, or surrounded by a building or buildings.
Factory
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.
Yard
A baseball park.
Factory
A police station.
Yard
An area where railroad trains are made up and cars are switched, stored, and serviced on tracks and sidings.
Factory
A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
Yard
A somewhat sheltered area where deer or other browsing animals congregate during the winter.
Factory
A factory farm.
Chicken factory; pig factory
Yard
An enclosed tract of ground in which animals, such as chickens or pigs, are kept.
Factory
(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
Yard
To enclose, collect, or put into a yard.
Factory
Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.
Yard
To gather together into a yard
The deer are yarding up in their winter grounds.
Factory
A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.
Yard
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
Factory
The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.
Yard
The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
Factory
A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.
Yard
An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
Factory
A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing
Yard
A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
Yard
One’s house or home.
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).
Yard
Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
Yard
(nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
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.
Yard
(obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
Yard
(obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
Yard
A penis.
Yard
100 dollars.
Yard
(obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
Yard
(obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 2 feet.
Yard
(obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, 4 acre.
Yard
(finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
I need to hedge a yard of yen.
Yard
(transitive) To confine to a yard.
Yard
To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.
Yard
A rod; a stick; a staff.
If men smote it with a yerde.
Yard
A branch; a twig.
The bitter frosts with the sleet and rainDestroyed hath the green in every yerd.
Yard
A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
Yard
A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
Yard
The penis.
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.
Yard
A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
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.
Yard
An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
Yard
To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
Yard
A unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
Yard
The enclosed land around a house or other building;
It was a small house with almost no yard
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
Yard
An area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
Yard
An enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
Yard
A unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
Yard
A long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
Yard
The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
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