yet
IPA: jˈɛt
noun
- (dialectal) A metal pan or boiler; yetling.
verb
- (obsolete) To pour.
- (obsolete outside dialects) To melt; found; cast (e.g. metal, by pouring it into a mould when molten).
- (nonstandard, West Country) To get.
adverb
- 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.
- In negative imperative use, asking for an action to be delayed.
- (poetic or archaic) In affirmative use: still.
- At some future time; eventually.
- (after 'have' and certain copulative verbs, followed by an infinitive) Not as of the time referenced.
- In addition.
- (degree) Even.
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Examples of "yet" in Sentences
- This lode is not discovered yet.
- He is fragile yet unpredictable.
- Yet the reality was the opposite.
- The emolument was not yet prepared.
- DeMerit is not part of the team yet.
- It is acceptable as a solution, yet sophism.
- However, I don't think the material coheres well enough yet.
- However, the Cabinet has yet to revoke the citizenship of any men.
- The narreme, however, has yet to be persuasively defined in practice.
- However, the Cabinet has yet to revoke the citizenship of any of the men.
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