(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 Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes.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?
Yup
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
(2) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
(3) And the American people say: ‘Yup, we need more jobs.’ Asking the wealthy and large corporations to pay their share of taxes?
(4) Ravens 6-7 Bengals Yup, this is what happens if you don’t take full advantage of your opportunities.
(5) Yup, that's me - so anti-England I live in the place.
(6) Yup, that's why I've delighted in Brazil's implosion this past week.
(7) Markit ( yup, them again ) just reported that the UK Services PMI rose to 51.5 last month (showing it expanded), up from December's mildly contractionary 49.5.
(8) Yup, like that time that Driving Miss Daisy “deserved” to win, when Do The Right Thing didn’t even get a nomination.
(9) Yup, Mike Miller fouls Leonard in about two seconds.
(10) When Garfield was assassinated that same year, the new president (and, yup, former customs collector) Chester A Arthur attempted to mend fences by offering Conkling a position on the US supreme court.
(11) 1.28pm GMT Three minutes to kick-off and just before the action starts here is a Martin Lloyd re the earlier Van Gaal clip: Yup, those subtitles are a pretty good reflection of the conversation.
(12) Yup, here comes John Farrell for the third John of this update.
(13) hold 6m libor unchange [sic] thanks Yen Trader 6: Yes[,] going over to his desk now[,] yup, 6s going unch, 3s will drop by 1 Senior Yen Trader: domo September 14 and 15, 2009: (Primary Submitter agrees to switch direction of submissions over two consecutive days.)
(14) I've not seen more ardent Morrissey mobbings than in the ballrooms and arts centres of Blackpool, Lancaster and Stoke, or more tearful fan gratitude than when Ash rocked up to play at a hastily converted church in, yup, Hastings in 2000.
(15) Saints 8-23 Seahawks, 2:40, 4th quarter Yup, that’ll do it.
(16) At least some of these are on the list of the seven industries that the Boston Consulting Group identified as being most likely to participate in some kind of big manufacturing revival : transportation goods (check), computers and electronics (yup), fabricated metal products (yes), machinery, plastics and rubber, appliances and furniture.
(17) Meanwhile on Twitter, two major food tips are emerging: Kuma's Corner for burgers, and Hot Dougs for, yup, hot dogs.
(18) Yup, think they're just building momentum for their assault on Mongolia 2026.
(19) Yup, anything that's in front of me usually gets eaten.
(20) Shooting Bar EA Shooting Bar EA is a BB gun target range and bar ... yup, drink up, and shoot things!