Lawn vs. Yard — What’s the Difference? (2024)

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Difference Between Lawn and Yard

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Lawn

A lawn is an area of soil-covered land planted with grasses and other durable plants such as clover which are maintained at a short height with a lawnmower (or sometimes grazing animals) and used for aesthetic and recreational purposes. Lawns are usually composed only of grass species, subject to weed and pest control, maintained in a green color (e.g., by watering), and are regularly mowed to ensure an acceptable length.

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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.

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Lawn

A plot of grass, usually tended or mowed, as one around a residence or in a park.

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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.

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Lawn

A light, finely woven, cotton or linen fabric.

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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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Lawn

An open space between woods.

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Yard

A square yard

Bought 4 yards of fabric.

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Lawn

Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

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Yard

A cubic yard

Dug up 100 yards of soil.

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Lawn

(biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

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Yard

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

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Lawn

(uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.

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Yard

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

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Lawn

(in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.

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Yard

A baseball park.

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Lawn

A piece of clothing made from lawn.

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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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Lawn

An open space between woods.

"Orchard lawns and bowery hollows."

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Yard

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

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Lawn

Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

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Yard

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

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Lawn

A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself.

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

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Yard

To enclose, collect, or put into a yard.

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Lawn

A field of cultivated and mowed grass

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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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Yard

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

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Yard

One’s house or home.

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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 0.9144m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).

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Yard

Units of similar composition or length in other systems.

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Yard

(nautical) Any spar carried aloft.

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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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Yard

(obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.

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Yard

(obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.

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Yard

A penis.

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Yard

100 dollars.

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Yard

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

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Yard

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

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Yard

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

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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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Yard

(transitive) To confine to a yard.

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Yard

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

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Yard

A rod; a stick; a staff.

If men smote it with a yerde.

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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 long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.

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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

The penis.

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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 co*ck, 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

An enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

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Yard

A unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

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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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Yard

The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

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