yet
adverbconjunctionverbnounverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United States//jɛt//
Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time. In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.
adverb
- 1
Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time. In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.
I haven't finished yet.
Have you finished yet?
We do not yet know what happened.
He has never yet been late for an appointment.
- 2
Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time. In negative imperative use, asking for an action to be delayed.
Don't switch it on yet – wait until I've reconnected the pump.
- 3
archaicThus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time. In affirmative use: still.
He is yet breathing. (He is still breathing.)
O, say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave […]? (US National Anthem)
They atteſt facts vvhich they had heard vvhile they vvere yet heathens, and had they not found reaſon to believe them, they vvould ſtill have continued heathens, and have made no mention of them in their vvritings.
- 4
At some future time; eventually.
The riddle will be solved yet.
He'll be hanged yet.
- 5
Not as of the time referenced.
I’ve yet to see him. — I have not yet seen him.
I had yet to go to a convention. — I had not yet gone to a convention.
They are yet to win a single match. — They have not yet won a single match.
He seemed yet to be convinced. — He seemed not yet to have been convinced.
- 6
In addition.
There are two hours yet to go until our destination.
It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar.
- 7
Even.
K-2 is yet higher than this.
Oh no! Yet more problems!
Men may not too rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor yet the evidence against them.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English yet, yit, from Old English ġīet, gȳta, from Proto-West Germanic *jūta, from Proto-Germanic *juta (compare West Frisian jit, jitte (“yet”), Dutch ooit (“ever”), German jetzt (“now”)), compound of (1) *ju (“already”, adverb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-, accusative of *h₂óyu (“long time”) and (2) the Proto-Germanic *ta (“to, towards”), from Proto-Indo-European *do. More at aye and -th.
conjunction
- 1
Nevertheless; however; but; despite that.
I thought I knew you, yet how wrong was I!
It’s incredible yet true.
Nor Court nor Citie had ſhe ſeene, yeat eithers prayſe ſhe had: / So much more vvorth by hovve much leſſe ſhe vvas vn-nicely clad.
Emaciated little creatures, with skin harsh and rough, rapid pulse, nerves ever on the strain—have yet a look of lively intelligence.
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo pour.
[…] & stablenes of perseueraunce; graunt me for all wor[l]dly consolacyons the swete, gracyous vnccyon of the holy goost, & for all carnall loue
Some with a fals herte, and a payntyd face In his lordes seruyce to haue chefe rowme and place Into his lordes erys yetyth secretly Lyes venemous, […]
- 2
obsoleteTo melt; found; cast (e.g. metal, by pouring it into a mould when molten).
[…] whiche shall present him selfe openly stained or embrued with sondry colours, or poudered with the duste of stones that he cutteth, or perfumed with tedious sauours of the metalles by him yoten.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English yeten, from Old English ġēotan (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Scots yat (“to pour, yet”), West Frisian jitte (“to scatter, shed, pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour, cast, mould”), German gießen (“to pour, cast, mould”), Swedish gjuta (“to pour, cast”). Doublet of yote.
noun
- 1
A metal pan or boiler; yetling.
verb
- 1
To get.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English yeten, ȝeten, from Old English ġietan, from Proto-Germanic *getaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-. More at get.
Forms
- plural
- yets
- past tense
- yetted, yot
- past participle
- yetted, yoten, yotten
- present participle
- yetting
- third person singular
- yets
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