(adv.) In that manner or degree; as, indicated (in any way), or as implied, or as supposed to be known.
(adv.) In like manner or degree; in the same way; thus; for like reason; whith equal reason; -- used correlatively, following as, to denote comparison or resemblance; sometimes, also, following inasmuch as.
(adv.) In such manner; to such degree; -- used correlatively with as or that following; as, he was so fortunate as to escape.
(adv.) Very; in a high degree; that is, in such a degree as can not well be expressed; as, he is so good; he planned so wisely.
(adv.) In the same manner; as has been stated or suggested; in this or that condition or state; under these circumstances; in this way; -- with reflex reference to something just asserted or implied; used also with the verb to be, as a predicate.
(adv.) The case being such; therefore; on this account; for this reason; on these terms; -- used both as an adverb and a conjuction.
(adv.) It is well; let it be as it is, or let it come to pass; -- used to express assent.
(adv.) Well; the fact being as stated; -- used as an expletive; as, so the work is done, is it?
(adv.) Is it thus? do you mean what you say? -- with an upward tone; as, do you say he refuses? So?
(adv.) About the number, time, or quantity specified; thereabouts; more or less; as, I will spend a week or so in the country; I have read only a page or so.
(conj.) Provided that; on condition that; in case that; if.
(interj.) Be as you are; stand still; stop; that will do; right as you are; -- a word used esp. to cows; also used by sailors.
Example Sentences:
Yet
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba; a boat shell.
(adv.) In addition; further; besides; over and above; still.
(adv.) At the same time; by continuance from a former state; still.
(adv.) Up to the present time; thus far; hitherto; until now; -- and with the negative, not yet, not up to the present time; not as soon as now; as, Is it time to go? Not yet. See As yet, under As, conj.
(conj.) Before some future time; before the end; eventually; in time.
(conj.) Even; -- used emphatically.
(conj.) Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(2) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(3) Subtypes of HBs Ag are already of great use in the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infections; yet they may have additional significance.
(4) Topical and systemic antibiotic therapy is common in dermatology, yet it is hard to find a rationale for a particular route in some diseases.
(5) Anaerobes, in particular Bacteroides spp., are the predominant bacteria present in mixed intra-abdominal infections, yet their critical importance in the pathogenicity of these infections is not clearly defined.
(6) We have not yet been honest about the implications, and some damaging myths have arisen.
(7) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(8) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(9) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
(10) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(11) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(12) The mode of action is as yet undetermined, but intracellular vacuoles may be the primary targets.
(13) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
(14) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
(15) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(16) Many other details of Westminster life have yet to be worked out.
(17) Ex-patients of a dental fear clinic were found to have significantly reduced, yet still high, dental anxiety scores in comparison with the pre-intervention scores.
(18) There are many examples to support his assertion, yet for the most part, it is celebrities who dictate what images can be published and what stories should be told.
(19) Yet in 4 patients in whom no aortic late systolic pressure wave was apparent (group II), nitroprusside did not alter the difference between aortic and radial systolic pressures.
(20) Yet, CTF significantly (P less than 0.001) stimulated the secretion of DOPA and DA by PC12 cells.