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English

  1. 🔊 a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)
  2. 🔊 dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue
    “it is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds”
  3. 🔊 the enclosed land around a house or other building
    “it was a small house with almost no yard”
  4. 🔊 your basis for belief or disbelief
    “the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling”
  5. 🔊 a justification for something existing or happening
    “he had no cause to complain”

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yard curtilage evidence cause reason astroturf acres alluvion alluvium antecedents artificial turf ash base basement basis basis for belief bearing wall bed bedding bedrock body of evidence boundary condition bowling green call