English Dictionary: yardmaster | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Yard \Yard\, n. [OE. yerd, AS. gierd, gyrd, a rod, stick, a measure, a yard; akin to OFries. ierde, OS. gerda, D. garde, G. gerte, OHG. gartia, gerta, gart, Icel. gaddr a goad, sting, Goth. gazds, and probably to L. hasta a spear. Cf. {Gad}, n., {Gird}, n., {Gride}, v. i., {Hastate}.] 1. A rod; a stick; a staff. [Obs.] --P. Plowman. If men smote it with a yerde. --Chaucer. 2. A branch; a twig. [Obs.] The bitter frosts with the sleet and rain Destroyed hath the green in every yerd. --Chaucer. 3. A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc. [Obs.] 4. A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure. 5. The penis. 6. (Naut.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of {Ship}. {Golden Yard}, or {Yard and Ell} (Astron.), a popular name of the three stars in the belt of Orion. {Under yard} [i. e., under the rod], under contract. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Yardwand \Yard"wand`\, n. A yardstick. --Tennyson. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Yourdon 1. 2. 3. (1995-04-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Yourdon, Inc. provide educational, publishing, and consulting services in state-of-the-art software engineering technology. Over the next 12 years, the company grew to a staff of over 150 people, with offices throughout North America and Europe. As CEO of the company, Yourdon oversaw an operation that trained over 250,000 people around the world; the company was sold in 1986 and eventually became part of {CGI}, the French software company that is now part of {IBM}. The publishing division, Yourdon Press (now part of Prentice Hall), has produced over 150 technical computer books on a wide range of software engineering topics; many of these "classics" are used as standard university computer science textbooks. (1995-04-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Yourdon methodology developed by {Edward Yourdon} and colleagues in the 1970s and 1980s. "Yourdon methodology" is a generic term for all of the following methodologies: {Yourdon/Demarco}, {Yourdon/Constantine}, {Coad/Yourdon}. (1995-04-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Yourdon/Constantine {methodology} involving {structure charts}, developed by Larry Constantine. (1995-04-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Yourdon/Demarco {methodology} involving {data flow diagram}s, etc. developed by {Edward Yourdon} and Tom DeMarco. (1995-04-07) |