yet

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Symbol

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Yetfa.

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.
   • I don't know if I can tell you yet.
   • Don't switch it on yet – wait until I've reconnected the pump.
   • He is yet breathing. (He is still breathing.)
   • O, say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave […]? (US National Anthem)
2. 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.
   • I don't know if I can tell you yet.
3. In negative imperative use, asking for an action to be delayed.
   • Don't switch it on yet – wait until I've reconnected the pump.
4. In affirmative use: still.
   • He is yet breathing. (He is still breathing.)
   • O, say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave […]? (US National Anthem)
5. At some future time; eventually.
   • The riddle will be solved yet.
6. 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.
7. In addition.
   • There are two hours yet to go until our destination.
8. Even.
   • K-2 is yet higher than this.
   • Oh no! Yet more problems!
9. ↑ Liberman, Anatoly (2008), “The Etymologies at a Glance”, in An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page xlvi.
10. ↑ Marlies Philippa et al., eds., Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands, A-Z, s.v. “ooit” (Amsterdam UP, 3 Dec. 2009):

Conjunction

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.
2. To melt; found; cast (e.g. metal, by pouring it into a mould when molten).

Noun

1. A metal pan or boiler; yetling.

Verb

1. To get.

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