(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.
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.