(adv.) Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes.
(adv.) More than this; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. Cf. Nay, adv., 2.
(n.) An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a vote by yeas and nays.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's not that they say, yea or nay regarding your right to speech, but can this be handled that it doesn't dramatically and drastically impact the rest of society?"
(2) A former firefighter who was diagnosed with MS aged 50, he is in a wheelchair and unable to walk at all after he broke his neck a few yeas ago.
(3) Growth on lactate and uptake of radiolabeled lactate by S. ruminantium was stimulated by a filter-sterilized YEA-SACC filtrate.
(4) The results of Study 1 suggested the existence of six MHLC clusters: pure internal; double external; pure chance; yea sayer; nay sayer, and believer in control.
(5) The concentration of L-malic acid in the YEA-SACC filtrate was 4.9 mM, and it seemed that L-malic acid played a role in the stimulation of growth on lactate as well as lactate uptake by S. ruminantium treated with YEA-SACC.
(6) A cellular telephone allows the minors to contact the people who assist them in the various cities they go through,” notes a report on the enslavement of children published last yea¬r by Save the Children Italia.
(7) What matters is that they want to see a proper, comprehensive reform process.” Coca-Cola is one of five top-tier Fifa global partners who contribute a large proportion of the $1.62bn it earns from sponsors every four yeas.
(8) The matched groups did not differ in overall recognition accuracy, but the AD patients tended to have a more liberal ("yea-saying") response bias than did the HD patients.
(9) In downtown Yangon, where trees grow from the walls of crumbling British buildings, Yea Htun, an official from Myanmar’s election commission, told the Guardian that 400 of the 700 people registered in the area had turned up early to vote.
(10) And while it's certainly true that a "yea" vote last night will prove to be a risky one for some members, and will cost a few of them their jobs, even that reality is no justification for the preening and fretting we've witnessed in these recent weeks, weeks they could and should have spent promoting the bill.
(11) Co-op bank, which reported a £177m loss for the first six months of the yea r , said the FRC’s ruling was related to the way it had operated in the past.
(12) The objective of this study was to examine the effects of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae culture (YEA-SACC) on lactate utilization by the predominant ruminal bacterium Selenomonas ruminantium.
(13) In experiment I three sheep each consumed rations rich in concentrate (700 g concentrate, 200 g chopped wheat straw) or roughage (700 g artificially dried ryegrass, 200 g chopped wheat straw per animal per day) and supplemented with 0, 1, 2 or 4 g Yea-Sacc (Saccharomyces cerevisiae; USA) per sheep per day.
(14) Yea I was waiting for that one,” Donald Jr said in emails first reported by New York magazine .
(15) Depression was much higher if Yea-Sacc was added to the concentrate ration (overall mean for 24, 48 and 72 h incubation time: 55.1, 47.1, 46.1 and 44.5 for 0, 1, 2 and 4 g Yea-Sacc) than to the roughage diet (58.7, 56.3, 55.0 and 54.1%).
(16) Higher levels of added Yea-Sacc decreased in sacco dry matter degradability of all incubated feeds.
(17) Conservative prime minister Antonis Samaras's fragile three-party coalition, formed to save debt-ridden Greece from bankruptcy this time last yea,r has faced a massive backlash over the decision on 11 June to close ERT, with 2,700 staff put out of work.
(18) This experiment showed that abnormally conservative bias was characteristic of depression and liberal (yea-saying) bias was found in mania regardless of severity of illness; discrimination deficits were found only when symptoms were severe.
(19) So could bread prepared the slow old fashioned way, the way it was made before added gluten and fast-rising yeas became the norm, be a solution to the gluten intolerance epidemic?
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.