(n.) A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.
(n.) A frame or piece resembling a yoke, as in use or shape.
(n.) A frame of wood fitted to a person's shoulders for carrying pails, etc., suspended on each side; as, a milkmaid's yoke.
(n.) A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence.
(n.) A frame or convex piece by which a bell is hung for ringing it. See Illust. of Bell.
(n.) A crosspiece upon the head of a boat's rudder. To its ends lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered from amidships.
(n.) A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts.
(n.) A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain.
(n.) A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt.
(n.) Fig.: That which connects or binds; a chain; a link; a bond connection.
(n.) A mark of servitude; hence, servitude; slavery; bondage; service.
(n.) Two animals yoked together; a couple; a pair that work together.
(n.) The quantity of land plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen.
(n.) A portion of the working day; as, to work two yokes, that is, to work both portions of the day, or morning and afternoon.
(v. t.) To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or pair of oxen.
(v. t.) To couple; to join with another.
(v. t.) To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine.
(v. i.) To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to consort closely; to mate.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
(2) In the control condition incentives were actually given on the basis of performance of yoked feedback partners.
(3) Britain should withdraw from the European convention on human rights during wartime because troops cannot fight under the yoke of “judicial imperialism”, according to a centre-right thinktank.
(4) To avoid a possible confound between the effects of sleep loss and disturbed circadian rhythms in previous studies of total sleep deprivation (TSD) by the disk-over-water method, TSD rats and their yoked control (TSC) rats had been maintained in constant light both before and during the experiment.
(5) Feedback subjects acquired lower EMG levels than control subjects, and the yoked-incentive subjects acquired lower levels than no-incentive subjects in the control condition.
(6) As the government comes to an end, they're still yoked together.
(7) Interference with escape was shown to be a function of the inescapability of shock and not shock per se: Rats that were "put through" and learned a prior jump-up escape did not become passive, but their yoked, inescapable partners did.
(8) Both plasma ACTH and corticosterone levels were measured at various times following escapable and yoked inescapable electric shock conditions known to produce differential behavioral outcomes.
(9) Relative to animals in the yoked condition, place training significantly reduced HACU in both the young rats and in a subpopulation of the aged animals that learned the task rapidly.
(10) After 3 days of stress, plasma corticosterone and prolactin levels were elevated in both stress groups compared to controls; yoked rats had higher levels of corticosterone than rats in the group with control over shock termination, while prolactin levels in both stressed groups were similar.
(11) We might wear the yoke of work and shoulder the burdens of citizenship and parenthood during the week, but come Friday night, or high summer, or festival season, there's some aspect of our otherness that we still want to celebrate and keep alive.
(12) Methods to control for unconditioned drug effects include reversing the direction of change in heart rate required for infusions and addition of a yoked control subject.
(13) Oculo-motors Paralysis, in acoordance to the Cüpper's principle: "paresis versus paresis" reducing the rotational force of the innervational impulsion of a muscle induces an increasing of innervational impulsion in the yoke muscle.
(14) Plasma cortisol increased in both groups, but its increase was greater in the yoked subjects.
(15) Simultaneously the experimenter struck the yoke, clenched in the subject's teeth, with a rubber hammer.
(16) Performance in this task caused an increase in the number of cells showing fos-like immunoreactivity in layers V and VI of the forelimb motor-sensory cortex with respect to yoked animals which had received the same amount, frequency and duration of aversive stimulation and manipulation as the trained animals.
(17) No significant differences were found in norepinephrine turnover or concentrations between kindled and yoked control rats in any of the brain regions examined.
(18) Patients with frontal lobe damage required more moves to complete the problems and a yoked motor control condition revealed that movement times were significantly increased in this group.
(19) The next conquest by William in 1066 crushed Anglo-Saxon England, but that in turn would produce the idea of “the Norman yoke”, which had supposedly subjugated the English people.
(20) The other animals were equally divided between two groups, one receiving saline and noncontingent reinforcements on the same schedule as those trained to discriminate cathinone; the other group, the "yoked-control" rats, received the same cathinone and saline regimen of administration as the discrimination-trained animals.
Yore
Definition:
(adv.) In time long past; in old time; long since.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subjects of 2015’s most exciting underground publications are a world away from the stapled-together, photocopied, fanzines of yore.
(2) With its stripped-back stone slab, here hovering above a line of Corinthian columns, it speaks volumes about this moment in time, its architecture used to embody rapid modernisation, nostalgia for historical greatness and the imagined national unity of yore.
(3) Yore's alleged crime is the production and distribution of child pornography.
(4) Since feminists – and anti-feminists – of yore spent so much time scrapping over the politics of female orgasm, it is useful to get the basic physiology down.
(5) On Saturday, protesters demanded Linden re-open the gallery which, aside from Yore's piece, houses the Like Mike exhibition, a series of work by seven artists in tribute to the late Mike Brown, the only Australian artist to be successfully prosecuted for obscenity.
(6) Paul Yore, 26, pleaded not guilty to producing and possessing child pornography over an installation that included images of nude adults with children’s faces attached.
(7) Chambers said Yore’s work would divide opinion, offending some people while others would see it as a right to freedom of expression.
(8) Or that they fear the changes that have followed as a result of this prolonged near-zero rate policy will make it impossible for them to manage the rate hikes as smoothly and gracefully as in days of yore?
(9) Now led by Mance Rayder (Ciaran Hinds), the self-styled King-Beyond-the Wall, the Free People look poised to descend on the sissy south in season three, in a campaign perhaps modelled on Bonnie Prince Charlie's raids into the heartland of the effete sassenachs of yore, or the Vikings marching on Stamford Bridge.
(10) But Jason Smith, the director of the Heide Museum of Modern Art, said Yore’s work was of outstanding merit.
(11) West Brom have now come from behind to earn points in their last three games – beating Arsenal and drawing at West Ham – and with the wind swirling wildly around and the Hawthorns crowd finally buying into “Tony Pulis’s blue and white army” with encouraging gusto, Spurs of yore might have wilted.
(12) The interview room currently plays host to Ken Rosewall, John Newcombe, Ashley Cooper, Neale Fraser, the grand slam giants of yore.
(13) In times of yore you would have woken up in a panic, scrambling in the dark, trying to find your fur coat or velvet smoking jacket.
(14) Yore’s art dealer Geoff Newton said the artist was happy to have the court battle behind him.
(15) Yore is yet to be charged over child pornography offences, which can carry a 10-year prison sentence.
(16) Clearly Paul Yore’s work is confronting, and intentionally so,” she said.
(17) In a promotional interview played to the court, Yore said it was an homage to avant-garde artist Mike Brown and was deliberately confrontational.
(18) Slowly they return, the clean-shaven, square-jawed heroes of yore, displaced for so many years now by their darker, more intricately conflicted brethren,” noted the Los Angeles Times TV critic, Mary McNamara.
(19) "That's not to justify paedophilia and exploitation, but I'm not sure that Paul Yore's non-binary view of sexuality is a major risk to society.
(20) In fact, to find a Clooney film I properly enjoyed I'd have to go all the way back to Fantastic Mr Fox, released back in the time of yore (ie 2009).