"receiving yard" meaning in English

See receiving yard in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: receiving yards [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} receiving yard (plural receiving yards)
  1. (American football) Yard gained by the offense on a play in which a receiver caught the ball. Categories (topical): Football (American)

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "receiving yards",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "receiving yard (plural receiving yards)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Football (American)",
          "orig": "en:Football (American)",
          "parents": [
            "Football",
            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in the New York Times:",
          "text": "In addition to putting up nearly 3,300 receiving yards and 32 touchdown receptions in three college seasons, he was also the main punt returner for the Sooners.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Yard gained by the offense on a play in which a receiver caught the ball."
      ],
      "id": "en-receiving_yard-en-noun-Ws-ru8LH",
      "links": [
        [
          "American football",
          "American football"
        ],
        [
          "Yard",
          "yard"
        ],
        [
          "offense",
          "offense"
        ],
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ],
        [
          "receiver",
          "receiver"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(American football) Yard gained by the offense on a play in which a receiver caught the ball."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "American-football",
        "ball-games",
        "football",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "receiving yard"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "receiving yards",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "receiving yard (plural receiving yards)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Football (American)"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in the New York Times:",
          "text": "In addition to putting up nearly 3,300 receiving yards and 32 touchdown receptions in three college seasons, he was also the main punt returner for the Sooners.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Yard gained by the offense on a play in which a receiver caught the ball."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "American football",
          "American football"
        ],
        [
          "Yard",
          "yard"
        ],
        [
          "offense",
          "offense"
        ],
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ],
        [
          "receiver",
          "receiver"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(American football) Yard gained by the offense on a play in which a receiver caught the ball."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "American-football",
        "ball-games",
        "football",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "receiving yard"
}

Download raw JSONL data for receiving yard meaning in English (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.