What's the difference between alright and yes?

Alright


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brazil got the battle fever on alright, but not in a good way.
  • (2) Ramblin' Jack, Corb has explained, did not acquire his nickname because of a penchant for long walks: in nearly an hour onstage, he gets around to three songs, including Dylan's Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.
  • (3) Allen has released two best-selling albums, Alright, Still and It's Not Me, It's You, and a number of hit singles including The Fear and Smile.
  • (4) Her second album It's Not Me, It's You came out in February last year, after her debut Alright Still sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide.
  • (5) Never salubrious – Pulp's Jarvis Cocker even wrote a song about his time there in which he simply repeats the lines "Oooh – it's a mess alright – it's Mile End" over and over again.
  • (6) Bowie was like a like a lighthouse that guided those people and made them feel it was alright to be different, to try things out and dye your hair and wear strange clothes.
  • (7) She would lean in and ask me softly if so-and-so was alright as "she's had a hard time of it".
  • (8) Superstar, Everything's Alright and I Don't Know How to Love Him.
  • (9) Video of the year and best collaboration: Taylor Swift feat Kendrick Lamar – Bad Blood Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best female video and best pop video: Taylor Swift - Blank Space Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best male video: Mark Ronson feat Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best hip-hop video: Nicki Minaj – Anaconda Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best rock video: Fall Out Boy – Uma Thurman Facebook Twitter Pinterest Artist to watch: Trap Queen – Fetty Wap Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best direction: Kendrick Lamar – Alright Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best video with a social message: Big Sean feat Kayne West and John Legend – One Man Can Change The World Facebook Twitter Pinterest
  • (10) Alright, that’s good actually – let’s do the Bond thing for a bit.
  • (11) There's a little feeling out early here, and Dwight King just felt Oduya alright, crushed him into the boards.
  • (12) One day I might have the balls to exhibit them - to show others in their middle-class "I'm alright, bollocks to you" lifestyles who aren't affected by the issue just how real it is.
  • (13) So many good things were happening for him here, I thought he’d be alright,” said Sleep.
  • (14) It’s not like rubber bullets or gas, people are dying alright,” O’Reilly told interviewer Marvin Kalb.
  • (15) It has occasionally, alright once, paved the way to a stellar career – for Sean Connery.
  • (16) It is alright to be corrupt,” they sometimes say.
  • (17) A man, 22, from south London, who talks about unemployment and why he looted: "When I left my house, yeah, it wasn't anything to do with the police, because as far as I'm concerned … the police that started the whole thing, yeah, were the police in Tottenham, so when it came down to Lewisham, it had nothing to do with Mark … I literally went there to say 'Alright then, well, everyone's getting free stuff, I'm joining in', like, because, it's fucking my area … these fucking shops, like, I've given them a hundred CVs … not one job … That's why I left my house.
  • (18) He’s smart, alright,” another teacher told her, “But he comes from such a chaotic background that he never knows where he will sleep that night, or where his next meal is coming from.
  • (19) And while I don’t ever expect to arrive at a point in life where I’m alright with the fact that my mother is gone, I know that I am so, so lucky to have loved and been loved that much by anyone.
  • (20) He eyed me nervously, then decided either that I'm probably alright, or that it was too late to worry about it.

Yes


Definition:

  • (adv.) Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mice with mutations in four nonreceptor tyrosine kinase genes, fyn, src, yes, and abl, were used to study the role of these kinases in long-term potentiation (LTP) and in the relation of LTP to spatial learning and memory.
  • (2) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
  • (3) Yes, we need consumption to get the economy moving, but if you spend more than you have, you’re not helping anyone and certainly not helping yourself.
  • (4) "We are planning a sequel [to Alpha Papa], yes, that will be great," Normal told the Guardian.
  • (5) And yes, some people on the internet found this inappropriate.
  • (6) Yes, the third album was a success but we've worked so hard on this one."
  • (7) Yes-no questions did not vary with rated complexity.
  • (8) We say no to press interviews more often than we say yes.
  • (9) "Yes, I also want to see you," the judge tells Nel and Roux.
  • (10) I saw my dad sitting in the audience, looking at me like, “Yes, he really is crazy.” Having listened to thousands of people, I realised we had a narrow view of what the environment is.
  • (11) The yes camp should have made no bones about a call to the nation to shake things up, by bringing him down a peg or two.
  • (12) We need to stop making excuses for them: But it is up to the state to close the loopholes Yes, the state must work continually to tighten and simplify the tax regime, which is a deliberate mess keeping an entire industry of accounting firms and tax lawyers fed.
  • (13) SW: Yes she bloody did, did you not hear that pause?
  • (14) "Yes, these are areas where there's high levels of joblessness, but most people are still in jobs.
  • (15) All the best things happen when you just say yes,” says Reilly.
  • (16) October 11, 2013 Yes, and we then adjust those results to factor in park effects.
  • (17) We can learn from London, yes, but let's not learn everything from it.
  • (18) Yes, if it helps kill the idea that autism is somebody's "fault".
  • (19) Yes, they involve people, but they don't have to be mediated through Facebook.
  • (20) It’s not too often that we agree in everything but I said he had learn this and that, don’t make this too difficult, and he said, ‘Yes, I know.’ “He wants to show everything in the short time he plays – everyone wanted him before Liverpool bought him – but he has to learn.

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