yet

UK /jɛt/ US /jɛt/
adv 5verb 3conj 1noun 1

Definitions

adv

1

Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.

I haven't finished yet.

Have you finished yet?

2

Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.

Don't switch it on yet – wait until I've reconnected the pump.

3

Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.

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.

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.

conj

1

Nevertheless; however; but; despite that.

I thought I knew you, yet how wrong was I!

It’s incredible yet true.

verb

1

To 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

To 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.

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