Square and Yard

Square

Square noun - (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon.

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Yard and square are semantically related in courtyard topic. In some cases you can use "Yard" instead a noun "Square".

Yard noun - An open space wholly or partly enclosed (as by buildings or walls).

Usage example: inmates are allowed an hour of exercise in the prison's inner yard

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Square and yard are semantically related in courtyard topic. Sometimes you can use "Square" instead a noun "Yard".

Nearby Words: yardage, yarding

old	old square	old yard
full	full square	full yard
specific	specific square	specific yard
empty	empty square	empty yard
Other adjectives: entire, massive, big, busy, little, famous, abandoned, extra, next, local, giant, cubic, starting, cybernetic.

Yet a tile square is only big enough for a single one-family house with hardly any yard, and it takes 4 adjacent tile squares to build even a small apartment building.

Source: Units Not to Scale
An egregious offender is a particular trend in men's designer t-shirts, to cram as much random stuff on a square yard of fabric as possible.

Source: Design Student's Orgasm
In his book Last Chance to See, Douglas Adams talks about how leery he was of going to visit the island of Komodo (home of the Komodo Dragon) because it has "more venomous snakes per square yard than anywhere else in the world".

Source: Suck Out the Poison

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