yet
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Is yet a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of yet?
Definition
adv (English)
1. Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.Examples: "He is yet breathing. (He is still breathing.)"; "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."archaicnot-comparablepoetic
2. (after 'have' and certain copulative verbs, followed by an infinitive) Not as of the time referenced.Examples: "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."not-comparablewith-infinitive
3. (degree) Even.Examples: "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."Synonyms: stillnot-comparable
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To pour.Examples: "[…] & 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, […]"obsolete
2. (obsolete outside dialects) To melt; found; cast (e.g. metal, by pouring it into a mould when molten).Examples: "[…] 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."dialectalobsolete
noun (English)
1. (dialectal) A metal pan or boiler; yetling.dialectal
verb (English)
1. (nonstandard, West Country) To get.West-Countrynonstandard
Definition source: Wiktionary