Yard
To see a neat and well-kept yard, reflects your ability to maintain and organize aspects of your outside life, such as work and your social activities.
To see a messy and unkempt yard, denotes that aspects of your life are out of your control.
Dictionary definition
- n. 1: a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride [syn: yard, pace]
- 2: the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" [syn: yard, grounds, curtilage]
- 3: 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"
- 4: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard]
- 5: a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) [syn: cubic yard, yard]
- 6: a tract of land where logs are accumulated
- 7: an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines [syn: yard, railway yard, railyard]
- 8: a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
- 9: an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)