(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.