The difference between Hundred and Yard
When used as nouns, hundred means a hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros), whereas yard means a small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (wikipedia).
Hundred is also numeral with the meaning: a numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
Yard is also verb with the meaning: to confine to a yard.
check bellow for the other definitions of Hundred and Yard
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Hundred as a noun:
A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
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Hundred as a noun (historical):
An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
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Hundred as a noun (by extension, historical):
Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
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Hundred as a noun (cricket):
A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
Examples:
"He made a hundred in the historic match."
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Yard as a noun:
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (Wikipedia).
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Yard as a noun:
An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
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Yard as a noun:
A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
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Yard as a noun (Jamaica):
One's house or home.
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Yard as a verb (transitive):
To confine to a yard.
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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).
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Yard as a noun:
Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
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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.
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Yard as a noun (obsolete):
A branch, twig, or shoot.
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Yard as a noun (obsolete):
A staff, rod, or stick.
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Yard as a noun (obsolete, medical):
A penis.
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Yard as a noun (US, slang, uncommon):
100 dollars.
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Yard as a noun (obsolete):
The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
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Yard as a noun (obsolete):
The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16½ feet.
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Yard as a noun (obsolete):
The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¼ acre.
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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."