The difference between Garden and Yard

When used as nouns, garden means an outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. such an ornamental place to which the public have access. taking place in, or used in, such a garden, whereas yard means a small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (wikipedia).

When used as verbs, garden means to grow plants in a garden, whereas yard means to confine to a yard.

Garden is also adjective with the meaning: common, ordinary, domesticated.

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  1. Garden as a noun (in the plural):

    An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. Such an ornamental place to which the public have access. Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.

    Examples:

    "a vegetable garden  a flower garden'"

    "You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens."

    "a garden party;  a garden spade;  a garden path"

  2. Garden as a noun:

    The grounds at the front or back of a house.

    Examples:

    "This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden.  nowrap We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden.  nowrap Our garden is overgrown with weeds."

  3. Garden as a noun (cartomancy):

    The twentieth Lenormand card.

  4. Garden as a noun (figuratively):

    A cluster; a bunch.

  5. Garden as a noun (slang):

    Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

  1. Garden as a verb (intransitive, chiefly, North America):

    to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

    Examples:

    "I love to garden — this year I'm going to plant some daffodils."

  2. Garden as a verb (intransitive, cricket):

    of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

  1. Garden as an adjective:

    Common, ordinary, domesticated.

  1. Yard as a noun:

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

  2. Yard as a noun:

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

  3. Yard as a noun:

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

  4. Yard as a noun (Jamaica):

    One's house or home.

  1. Yard as a verb (transitive):

    To confine to a yard.

  1. Yard as a noun:

    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).

  2. Yard as a noun:

    Units of similar composition or length in other systems.

  3. Yard as a noun (nautical):

    Any spar carried aloft. 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.

  4. Yard as a noun (obsolete):

    A branch, twig, or shoot.

  5. Yard as a noun (obsolete):

    A staff, rod, or stick.

  6. Yard as a noun (obsolete, medical):

    A penis.

  7. Yard as a noun (US, slang, uncommon):

    100 dollars.

  8. Yard as a noun (obsolete):

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

  9. Yard as a noun (obsolete):

    The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16½ feet.

  10. Yard as a noun (obsolete):

    The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¼ acre.

  1. Yard as a noun (finance):

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

    Examples:

    "I need to hedge a yard of yen."

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