Yard vs. Warehouse — What's the Difference?

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.

A warehouse is a building for storing goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc.

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.

A large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored prior to their distribution for sale.

(Nautical) A long tapering spar slung to a mast to support and spread the head of a square sail, lugsail, or lateen.

Store (goods) in a warehouse

A square yard

Place (a prisoner or a psychiatric patient) in a large, impersonal institution in which their problems are not satisfactorily addressed

A cubic yard

A place in which goods or merchandise are stored; a storehouse.

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

A large, usually wholesale shop.

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

To place or store in a warehouse, especially in a bonded or government warehouse.

A baseball park.

To institutionalize (a person) in usually deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational, psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent

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

A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.

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

(transitive) To store in a warehouse or similar.

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

(transitive) To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period.

To enclose, collect, or put into a yard.

To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it.

To gather together into a yard

A storehouse for wares, or goods.

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

To deposit or secure in a warehouse.

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

To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.

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

A storehouse for goods and merchandise

A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.

Store in a warehouse

One’s house or home.

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).

Units of similar composition or length in other systems.

(nautical) Any spar carried aloft.

(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.

(obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.

(obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.

A penis.

100 dollars.

(obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.

(obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 2 feet.

(obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, 4 acre.

(finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.

(transitive) To confine to a yard.

To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.

A rod; a stick; a staff.

A branch; a twig.

A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.

A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.

The penis.

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.

A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.

An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.

An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.

To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.

A unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

The enclosed land around a house or other building;

A tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings);

An area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

An enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

A unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

A long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100