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Jamaica vs. Yard — What's the Difference?

Jamaica vs. Yard — What's the Difference?

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Jamaica

Jamaica ( (listen); Jamaican Patois: Jumieka) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi) in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola).

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.

Jamaica

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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.

Jamaica

One of the West Indian islands.
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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.

Jamaica

A country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism

Yard

A square yard
Bought 4 yards of fabric.

Jamaica

An island in the West Indies south of Cuba and west of Haiti

Yard

A cubic yard
Dug up 100 yards of soil.

Yard

A tract of ground next to, surrounding, or surrounded by a building or buildings.

Yard

A tract of ground, often enclosed, used for a specific business or activity.

Yard

A baseball park.

Yard

An area where railroad trains are made up and cars are switched, stored, and serviced on tracks and sidings.

Yard

A somewhat sheltered area where deer or other browsing animals congregate during the winter.

Yard

An enclosed tract of ground in which animals, such as chickens or pigs, are kept.

Yard

To enclose, collect, or put into a yard.

Yard

To gather together into a yard
The deer are yarding up in their winter grounds.

Yard

A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.

Yard

The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.

Yard

An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.

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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