Main Difference
The main difference between Yard and Garden is that the Yard is a unit of length and Garden is a planned space set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants.
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Yard
The yard (abbreviation: yd) is an English unit of length, in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement, that comprises 3 feet or 36 inches. It is by international agreement in 1959 standardized as exactly 0.9144 meters. A metal yardstick originally formed the physical standard from which all other units of length were officially derived in both English systems.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, increasingly powerful microscopes and scientific measurement detected variation in these prototype yards which became significant as technology improved. In 1959, the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa agreed to adopt the Canadian compromise value of 0.9144 meters per yard.
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Garden
A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, or enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is known as a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. Zoos, which display wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens. Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, with garden often signifying a shortened form of botanical garden. Some traditional types of eastern gardens, such as Zen gardens, use plants sparsely or not at all.
Gardens may exhibit structural enhancements, sometimes called follies, including water features such as fountains, ponds (with or without fish), waterfalls or creeks, dry creek beds, statuary, arbors, trellises and more. Some gardens are for ornamental purposes only, while some gardens also produce food crops, sometimes in separate areas, or sometimes intermixed with the ornamental plants. Food-producing gardens are distinguished from farms by their smaller scale, more labor-intensive methods, and their purpose (enjoyment of a hobby or self-sustenance rather than producing for sale). Flower gardens combine plants of different heights, colors, textures, and fragrances to create interest and delight the senses.
Gardening is the activity of growing and maintaining the garden. This work is done by an amateur or professional gardener. A gardener might also work in a non-garden setting, such as a park, a roadside embankment, or other public space. Landscape architecture is a related professional activity with landscape architects tending to specialise in design for public and corporate clients.
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Yard (noun)
A small, usually uncultivated area Wikipedia).
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Yard (noun)
An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
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Yard (noun)
A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
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Yard (noun)
One’s house or home.
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Yard (noun)
A m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
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Yard (noun)
Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
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Yard (noun)
Any spar carried aloft.
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Yard (noun)
A branch, twig, or shoot.
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Yard (noun)
A staff, rod, or stick.
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Yard (noun)
A penis.
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Yard (noun)
100 dollars.
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Yard (noun)
The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
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Yard (noun)
The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16½ feet.
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Yard (noun)
The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¼ acre.
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Yard (noun)
109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
“I need to hedge a yard of yen.”
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Yard (verb)
To confine to a yard.
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Garden (noun)
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
“a vegetable garden”
“a flower garden”
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Garden (noun)
Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
“You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.”
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Garden (noun)
The grounds at the front or back of a house.
“This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden.”
“We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden.”
“Our garden is overgrown with weeds.”
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Garden (noun)
The twentieth Lenormand card.
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Garden (noun)
A cluster; a bunch.
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Garden (noun)
Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
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Garden (verb)
to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
“I love to garden — this year I’m going to plant some daffodils.”
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Garden (verb)
of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
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Garden (adjective)
Common, ordinary, domesticated.
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Garden (noun)
a piece of ground adjoining a house, in which grass, flowers, and shrubs may be grown
“children love playing in the garden”
“a garden gate”
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Garden (noun)
ornamental grounds laid out for public enjoyment and recreation
“botanical gardens”
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Garden (noun)
a street or square
“Burlington Gardens”
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Garden (noun)
a large public hall
“Madison Square Garden”
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Garden (verb)
cultivate or work in a garden
“she wrote books, kept journals, and gardened”