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yard(4) (iou) and Antonomasia (health)


yard(4) (iou)



yard verb2. [j¨»:d] M18.
[from YARD noun1.]
verb trans.
a. Pen (up) or enclose (cattle etc.) in a yard. M18.
b. Store (corn, wood, etc.) in a yard. Chiefly N. Amer. M18.
verb intrans. Of moose etc.: resort to winter quarters. N. Amer. M19.
yarder noun (a) Austral. a person who yards animals; (b) N. Amer. a kind of donkey engine used in logging: L19.
yarding noun (a) the action of the verb; (b) (the cost of) storage in a yard: M19.

Antonomasia (health)


"1. The substitution of a title for a proper name, as in addressing a physician as ""Doctor"" or a nurse as ""Nurse."" 2. The substitution of a personal name for a noun to designate a member of a group or class, as in calling a geneticist a Mendelist (after Gregor Mendel, who discovered the principles of inheritance). The word antonomasia is Latin, from the Greek antonomazein, to name instead: anti-, instead of + onomazein, to name (from onoma, name). "