• a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)
• an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed
• The tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
• A tool used to read a torah.
• A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
• The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
• An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
• A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
• One’s house or home.
• A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
• Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
• Any spar carried aloft.
• A branch, twig, or shoot.
• A staff, rod, or stick.
• A penis.
• 100 dollars.
• The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
• The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16 1/2 feet.
• The rood, area bound by a square rod, 1/4 acre.
• 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
• Typically a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster. The term may be used generically to apply to any car, truck, or motorcycle (et al.) modified for increased speed and/or performance. It may also be used to specifically describe and refer to modified cars from the original (or traditional) era of "hot rods", post World War II and prior to 1960.
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