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Definition of yes in English: yesexclamationjɛsjɛs 1Used to give an affirmative response. ‘Do you understand?’ ‘Yes.’ Example sentencesExamples - Oh yes, please call Adam's mother and tell her he is okay.
- When I asked the - the secretary to stay on as secretary of defense, I was very pleased when he said yes.
- So from my point of view, yes, I understand there have to be sometimes corporate policies, but at the end of the day I know my business better than the centre does.
- He asked me if I wanted to go to the Valentine dance with him and of course I said yes!
- I am pleased with the record yes, but my main feeling at this moment is disappointment for not having been able to beat Montgomery.
- So, yes, I understand that, but I think it needs to be both.
- And she says yes, please, are you free this evening?
- If your Honour pleases, yes, it is even more strongly stated there.
- Of course, I said yes but I only agreed to make it only after I read what he has written about me.
- I asked Craig if he would consider making a jump with him, Craig's response was a resounding yes!
- We would love a new ‘academy’ for our children, yes please, but we'd like it for everyone.
- And yes, please throw away any tools that are worn out and replace them.
- He blushed so hard that he could have sworn his face looked like a tomato. ‘Please say yes,’ He thought eagerly.
- Please say yes, as I really don't want to have to explain basic optics.
- Let him say yes… Please let him say yes… Kit paused and then nodded a quick affirmative.
- Say ‘Ooh, yes please’ when your father-in-law asks if you would like an eighth beer.
- My response is yes, and that is a danger that we worked out when we took the decision.
- At a quick glance around she was please to note that yes, they did.
- And yes, I do understand that marriage may have begun as a means of social control by the church.
- I don't hear a lot of calls on behalf of economic officials saying, yes, please come and invest.
- In all seriousness - yes, please stand for the leadership.
- Err yes, please - but why the Fawlty Towers impression?
Synonyms all right, alright, very well, of course, by all means, sure, certainly, absolutely, indeed, affirmative, in the affirmative, agreed, roger Scottish, Northern English, & archaic aye Nautical aye aye informal yeah, yah, yep, yup, uh-huh, okay, OK, okey-dokey, okey-doke British informal righto, righty-ho North American informal surely Indian informal acha archaic or formal yea - 1.1 Expressing agreement with a positive statement.
‘That was a grand evening.’ ‘Yes, it was.’ Example sentencesExamples - Well actually… (catches panicked look from Willow) yes, you're absolutely right.
- Ah yes, that's certainly true, but we are also obliged to notify the next of kin.
- And to the extent that terrorism is part of the security problem, then, yes, I absolutely agree with that.
- Of course, yes, certainly, it was a chance to be associated with the games.
- Asked if he would file the necessary papers before the Kharar court to record his statement, Kohli replied with a categorical yes but was not sure when he would do so.
- Although felt extremely happy when I heard that, I could not give a big positive yes at the moment he asked.
- Perhaps he was aesthetically pleasing, yes, but as far as his personality went…
- I pondered the significance of this statement before agreeing, yes, his hypothesis may prove correct.
- Well, I mean, yes, of course, we all have the right to do that.
- We would be in a better position economically now, yes, definitely.
- You know, I agree to a certain degree that, yes, the way we dress, the way that we present ourselves in their society does carry weight.
- 1.2 Asked at the end of a statement to indicate the expectation of agreement.
you think I perhaps killed Westbourne, yes? - 1.3 Expressing contradiction of a negative statement.
‘You don't want to go.’ ‘Yes, I do.’
2Used as a response to someone addressing one or trying to attract one's attention. ‘Oh, Mr Lawrence.’ ‘Yes?’ 3Used to question a remark. ‘It should be easy to check.’ ‘Oh yes? How?’ 4Encouraging someone to continue speaking. ‘When you bought those photographs …’ ‘Yes?’ 5Expressing great pleasure or excitement. plenty to eat, including hot hamburger sandwiches (yes!) 6Expressing irritation or impatience. ‘Is the pain still there?’ ‘Yes, yes, damn you, the pain is always there’ Example sentencesExamples - Marriage rates are falling, the number of single households is increasing, fewer people are having children… Yes, yes, we know!
- Yes, yes, I know he's utilizing organic instrumentation, but when, for most of the album, the drummer sounds like a drum machine, what is the point?
- Yes, yes, Gerry, but what's wrong with entertainment?
- Yes, yes, yes, though as Leslie Nielsen says in Airplane: ‘Don't call me Shirley’.
- Yes, yes, obviously I've an interest; obviously I'm hoping you're going to rush to the bookshop to buy mine.
- Yes, yes, I know all of this will pass but why can't it pass NOW?
- Yes, yes, it's all very pretty but there's not much there that grabs you… even in that sort of gentle way that their last couple of albums did.
- Yes, yes, I know that some of the best dining in the world can be had in the UK these days but wander just a little way from any cosmopolitan hub and you are in a culinary wasteland.
- Yes, yes, the clitoris is the woman's sex organ.
- Yes, yes, yes, damn we love this in our bijou pantry laughingly called the Losing Today record room, which suspiciously resembles a coat cupboard.
- I start to drum my fingernails on my purse, out of habit, boredom, and yes, irritation.
- Yes yes yes - why didn't I just give up there and then?
- Yes, yes, it's a famous passage - I've not wit enough at present to be obscure.
- Yes, yes: I realize it's gauche to go on about the Strokes.
- Yes, yes, we know that Pete Doherty could no more go to the Brit Awards than he could a Midnight Mass, what with the curfew and all, and we suspect that Williams knows that too.
- Yes, yes, we know it takes time to undo 17 years of Tory government - but exactly what difference has Labour to show after five years?
nounPlural yesses, Plural yesesjɛsjɛs An affirmative answer or decision, especially in voting. answering with assured and ardent yeses Example sentencesExamples - If it doesn't bother you, send me a yes at my e-mail address.
- ‘I've come up with a lot of yesses and nos,’ came the measured response.
- A chorus of yeses, head nods, and wolf calls went around the table.
- That'd be three yesses. [Laughs.] But I was just thinking, as I was answering that, that when I'm writing for the theater, I write more in a filmic way.
- But as the vote went on, those yeses quickly dropped off.
- Ok, I got a few yeses, and a few people just telling me to continue.
- We have 5 yesses, two nos, and a maybe as long as nobody goes into labour that day.
- I got some quite reluctant yesses from one or two - so I had my photos done first to show them it was tasteful and not at all pornographic.
- And by the way, there are a lot of yeses on that question.
- Rilla counted them up as each name was called, and found a large majority of yesses.
- So, what happens though, the combination of all of those yeses, you know, over a period of time, builds your own brand, builds your life brand; it really determines who you are.
- And then I go into the unknown once I get a lot of yeses.
- But all I have is one maybe and a handful of yeses conditional on coming up with the money.
- I smiled thoughtfully to myself as I ticked off the amount of yeses on my fingers.
- The no votes had just nosed past the yeses by a few tenths of a percent.
- The yeses are the different areas of struggle, the different lines of flight to possible different worlds.
- The response was a bunch of yeahs, sures, OKs, and yeses.
- Super-optimists suggest that, perhaps with some changes and reassurance from European leaders, the noes might be turned into yeses, like water into wine.
- One coolly abstracted the city, taking what he wanted and discarding the rest, reshaping it to his liking with emphatic yesses and nos.
- So, if you're reading this could you please post a yes or a no as to whether you are on the Organ Donor register.
Synonyms approval, seal of approval, approbation, endorsement, welcome, encouragement
Phrases ‘Did it come as a surprise to you?’ ‘Yes and no.’ Example sentencesExamples - Yet no one has offered to suggest that Ablett's woes are anything other than those of his own making - but I would argue yes and no?
- Asked if he was still doing legal work, he replied: ‘The answer is yes and no in that I have always done wee bits and pieces.’
- As for violence being in our faces 24-7, well yes and no.
- Asked whether he was disappointed with the team score of 228, he said, ‘Both yes and no.’
- Larissa Behrendt: I think the answer to that is yes and no.
- The answer, like so many things in politics, is yes and no.
- The answer, according to Dr. Robert Polisky, a dermatologist in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, is both yes and no.
- That is why the answer to your question is, yes and no.
- To me, lightly grilling him in a hotel in Kensington High Street, he simply says: ‘The answer's yes and no.’
- Well yes and no - sure you want to have your search index in RAM, accessing RAM is 1000 times faster than disk access, but the main problem with Windows is the lack of a decent searchable index in the first place.
Origin Old English gēse, gīse, probably from an unrecorded phrase meaning 'may it be so'. Rhymes acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse Definition of yes in US English: yesexclamationyesjɛs 1Used to give an affirmative response. “Do you understand?” “Yes.” Example sentencesExamples - And yes, please throw away any tools that are worn out and replace them.
- If your Honour pleases, yes, it is even more strongly stated there.
- I am pleased with the record yes, but my main feeling at this moment is disappointment for not having been able to beat Montgomery.
- In all seriousness - yes, please stand for the leadership.
- Please say yes, as I really don't want to have to explain basic optics.
- He asked me if I wanted to go to the Valentine dance with him and of course I said yes!
- Say ‘Ooh, yes please’ when your father-in-law asks if you would like an eighth beer.
- So, yes, I understand that, but I think it needs to be both.
- I asked Craig if he would consider making a jump with him, Craig's response was a resounding yes!
- At a quick glance around she was please to note that yes, they did.
- My response is yes, and that is a danger that we worked out when we took the decision.
- We would love a new ‘academy’ for our children, yes please, but we'd like it for everyone.
- And yes, I do understand that marriage may have begun as a means of social control by the church.
- Of course, I said yes but I only agreed to make it only after I read what he has written about me.
- So from my point of view, yes, I understand there have to be sometimes corporate policies, but at the end of the day I know my business better than the centre does.
- Err yes, please - but why the Fawlty Towers impression?
- I don't hear a lot of calls on behalf of economic officials saying, yes, please come and invest.
- Oh yes, please call Adam's mother and tell her he is okay.
- He blushed so hard that he could have sworn his face looked like a tomato. ‘Please say yes,’ He thought eagerly.
- And she says yes, please, are you free this evening?
- Let him say yes… Please let him say yes… Kit paused and then nodded a quick affirmative.
- When I asked the - the secretary to stay on as secretary of defense, I was very pleased when he said yes.
Synonyms all right, alright, very well, of course, by all means, sure, certainly, absolutely, indeed, affirmative, in the affirmative, agreed, roger - 1.1 Expressing agreement with a positive statement just made.
“That was a grand evening.” “Yes, it was.” Example sentencesExamples - And to the extent that terrorism is part of the security problem, then, yes, I absolutely agree with that.
- I pondered the significance of this statement before agreeing, yes, his hypothesis may prove correct.
- Perhaps he was aesthetically pleasing, yes, but as far as his personality went…
- Of course, yes, certainly, it was a chance to be associated with the games.
- We would be in a better position economically now, yes, definitely.
- Well, I mean, yes, of course, we all have the right to do that.
- Ah yes, that's certainly true, but we are also obliged to notify the next of kin.
- You know, I agree to a certain degree that, yes, the way we dress, the way that we present ourselves in their society does carry weight.
- Although felt extremely happy when I heard that, I could not give a big positive yes at the moment he asked.
- Well actually… (catches panicked look from Willow) yes, you're absolutely right.
- Asked if he would file the necessary papers before the Kharar court to record his statement, Kohli replied with a categorical yes but was not sure when he would do so.
- 1.2 Asked at the end of a statement to indicate the expectation of agreement.
you think I perhaps killed Westbourne, yes? - 1.3 Expressing contradiction of a negative statement.
“You don't want to go.” “Yes, I do.”
2Used as a response to someone addressing one or otherwise trying to attract one's attention. “Oh, Mr. Lawrence.” “Yes?” 3Used to question a remark or ask for more detail about it. “It should be easy to check.” “Oh yes? How?” 4Encouraging someone to continue speaking. “When you bought those photographs …” “Yes?” 5Expressing delight. plenty to eat, including hot roast beef sandwiches (yes!)
nounyesjɛs An affirmative answer or decision, especially in voting. answering with assured and ardent yeses Example sentencesExamples - ‘I've come up with a lot of yesses and nos,’ came the measured response.
- Ok, I got a few yeses, and a few people just telling me to continue.
- One coolly abstracted the city, taking what he wanted and discarding the rest, reshaping it to his liking with emphatic yesses and nos.
- So, if you're reading this could you please post a yes or a no as to whether you are on the Organ Donor register.
- If it doesn't bother you, send me a yes at my e-mail address.
- Super-optimists suggest that, perhaps with some changes and reassurance from European leaders, the noes might be turned into yeses, like water into wine.
- The no votes had just nosed past the yeses by a few tenths of a percent.
- I got some quite reluctant yesses from one or two - so I had my photos done first to show them it was tasteful and not at all pornographic.
- And by the way, there are a lot of yeses on that question.
- We have 5 yesses, two nos, and a maybe as long as nobody goes into labour that day.
- So, what happens though, the combination of all of those yeses, you know, over a period of time, builds your own brand, builds your life brand; it really determines who you are.
- The response was a bunch of yeahs, sures, OKs, and yeses.
- But as the vote went on, those yeses quickly dropped off.
- I smiled thoughtfully to myself as I ticked off the amount of yeses on my fingers.
- And then I go into the unknown once I get a lot of yeses.
- But all I have is one maybe and a handful of yeses conditional on coming up with the money.
- The yeses are the different areas of struggle, the different lines of flight to possible different worlds.
- A chorus of yeses, head nods, and wolf calls went around the table.
- Rilla counted them up as each name was called, and found a large majority of yesses.
- That'd be three yesses. [Laughs.] But I was just thinking, as I was answering that, that when I'm writing for the theater, I write more in a filmic way.
Synonyms approval, seal of approval, approbation, endorsement, welcome, encouragement
Phrases “Did it come as a surprise to you?” “Yes and no.” Example sentencesExamples - Yet no one has offered to suggest that Ablett's woes are anything other than those of his own making - but I would argue yes and no?
- Asked if he was still doing legal work, he replied: ‘The answer is yes and no in that I have always done wee bits and pieces.’
- Larissa Behrendt: I think the answer to that is yes and no.
- The answer, like so many things in politics, is yes and no.
- Asked whether he was disappointed with the team score of 228, he said, ‘Both yes and no.’
- That is why the answer to your question is, yes and no.
- As for violence being in our faces 24-7, well yes and no.
- Well yes and no - sure you want to have your search index in RAM, accessing RAM is 1000 times faster than disk access, but the main problem with Windows is the lack of a decent searchable index in the first place.
- To me, lightly grilling him in a hotel in Kensington High Street, he simply says: ‘The answer's yes and no.’
- The answer, according to Dr. Robert Polisky, a dermatologist in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, is both yes and no.
Origin Old English gēse, gīse, probably from an unrecorded phrase meaning ‘may it be so’. |