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

  1. Hundred as a noun:

    A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).

  2. 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.

  3. Hundred as a noun (by extension, historical):

    Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire

  4. 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."

  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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