Yard vs Mill - What's the difference?
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A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building ().
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, title= An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
* {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
, title=Death Walks in Eastrepps
, chapter=2/2 (Jamaica) One’s house or home.
To confine to a yard.
* 1893 , Elijah Kellogg, Good old times, or, Grandfather's struggles for a homestead
(nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is 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.
(nautical) Any spar carried aloft ().
A staff, rod or stick.
A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK; ).
* , chapter=1
, title= (US, slang) One hundred dollars.
(obsolete) The penis.
*, II.12:
*:there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard , and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes.
A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
A machine for grinding and polishing.
A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
A building housing such a plant.
An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc.
(label) an engine
(label) a boxing match, fistfight
(label) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
(label) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
(label) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
A milling cutter.
(label) A card or deck that relies on the strategy of putting cards directly from the draw pile into the discard pile.
An obsolete coin with value one-thousandth of a dollar, or one-tenth of a cent.
One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
(label) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
(label) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
(label) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
To move about in an aimless fashion.
To swim underwater.
To beat; to pound.
* Rudyard Kipling
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
(label) To place cards into the discard pile directly from the draw pile.
In transitive terms the difference between yard and mill
is that yard is to confine to a yard while mill is to engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).yard
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) yard, .Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard —peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
citation, passage=A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard .}}
Derived terms
See also Yard * apple-yard * back yard, back-yard, backyard * barn-yard, barnyard * bone-yard, boneyard * brickyard * castle yard * chapel yard * churchyard * court-yard, courtyard * deer-yard, deeryard * dockyard * door-yard, dooryard * dung-yard * farm-yard, farmyard * fore-yard * front yard * graveyard * green-yard, greenyard * grip-yard * hemp-yard * hop-yard * inn-yard, innyard * junk-yard, junkyard * kailyard, kaleyard * kirkyard * knacker's yard * liberty of the yard * lumber-yard, lumberyard * marshaling yard, marshalling yard * mast-yard * navy yard, navy-yard * olive-yard * * palace yard * par-yard * poultry-yard * press-yard * rick-yard, rickyard * rope-yard * sale-yard, saleyard * schoolyard * scrapyard * shipyard * show-yard * stable-yard * stack-yard, stackyard * steelyard * stockyard * straw yard * switchyard * tan-yard, tanyard * tenter-yard * tilt-yard, tiltyard * timber-yard, timberyard * vinegar-yard * vineyard * wood-yard, woodyard * yardage * yard bird, yardbird * yard-boy * yard broom * yard-dike * yard-dog * yardful * yard grass, yard-grass * yardhove * yarding * yardland * yardman * yardmaster * yard-money * yardperson * yard sale * yardsman * yardswoman * yard work, yard-workVerb
(en verb)- As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) yerd, , German Gerte.Noun
(en noun)- (Piers Plowman)
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’
Derived terms
* all wool and a yard wide * by the yard * clay yard * cloth yard, cloth-yard * cubic yard * fore-yard, foreyard * golden yard * jackyard * main yard, main-yard * mast-yard * meteyard * mizen-yard, mizen yard, mizzen-yard, mizzen yard * royal yardman * sailyard * six-yard box * square yard * steelyard * under the yard * upper yardman * yardage * yard-arm, yardarm * yard-coal * yarded * yardel * yard-fell * yard goods * yardland * yard-long * yard-measure * yard of ale * yard of clay * yard of land * yard of lime * yard of mortar * yard of satin * yard of stone * yard of tin * yard-rope * yard-seam * yard-stick, yardstick * yard-wand, yardwand * whole nine yardsEtymology 3
Corruption of (etyl) milliard.Anagrams
* * ----mill
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)- {{quote-book, year=1914
citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=The name of the "white hope" against whom Billy was to go was sufficient to draw a fair house, and there were some there who had seen Billy in other fights and looked for a good mill . }}
Synonyms
* factory, worksDerived terms
{{der3, , cog mill , miller , millhouse , milling , mill race, millrace , millstone , mill wheel, millwheel , paper mill , pecker mill , pulp mill , rice mill , rolling mill , run-of-the-mill , rumor mill, rumour mill , steel mill , trouble at t' mill , watermill , windmill}}Etymology 2
Ultimately from (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (one thousandth part) permille,Coordinate terms
* (one thousandth part) * percent * basis pointDerived terms
* millageEtymology 3
From the noun .Verb
(en verb)- (Thackeray)