different between oar vs yet

English

Etymology

From Old English ?r, from Proto-Germanic *air? (“oar”). Cognate to Old Norse ár.

Pronunciation

• In British & some other non-rhotic accents:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /o?/
  • Homophones: aw, awe (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
• In US & some other rhotic accents:
  • (General American) enPR: ôr, IPA^(key): /??/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?r, IPA^(key): /o(?)?/
  • Homophones: ore, o'er; or (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

oar (plural oars)

1. A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.

   Synonym: paddle

2. An oarsman; a rower.

3. (zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

Derived terms

• stick one's oar in

Translations

Verb

oar (third-person singular simple present oars, present participle oaring, simple past and past participle oared)

1. (literary) To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.
   • Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.

Translations

Anagrams

• AOR, AoR, Ora, ROA, Rao, Roa, aro, ora

West Frisian

Adjective

oar

1. other
2. different

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• feroarje

Further reading

• “oar (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /j?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English yet, yit, from Old English ??et, g?ta, from Proto-Germanic *juta (compare West Frisian jit, jitte (“yet”), Dutch ooit (“ever”), German jetzt (“now”)), compound of (1) *ju (“ever”, adverb) (see aye), from Proto-Indo-European *h?yew-, accusative of *h?óyu (“long time”) and (2) the Proto-Germanic *ta (“to,towards”) , from Proto-Indo-European *do. More at aye and -th.

Adverb

yet (not comparable)

1. (usually with negative) Thus far; up to the present; up to some specified time; still

2. Continuously up to the current time; still.
   • 1730, Joseph Addison, The Evidences Of The Christian Religion

     facts they had heard while they were yet heathens

3. At some future time; eventually; still.

4. (after certain copulative verbs, followed by an infinitive) Not as of the time referenced.

5. In addition.

6. (degree) Even.

Synonyms

• (up to some specified time): erenow, so far, to date; see also Thesaurus:hitherto or Thesaurus:formerly
• (continuously up to the current time): even now, still
• (at some future time): at last, in time, sooner or later; see also Thesaurus:eventually or Thesaurus:subsequently
• (not at the time referenced): still
• (in addition): besides, further, moreover; see also Thesaurus:additionally
• (even): still

Derived terms

• not yet

Translations

References

Conjunction

yet

1. Nevertheless; however; but; despite that.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

   • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

Synonyms

• be that as it may, even so, withal; see also Thesaurus:nevertheless

Derived terms

• as yet

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English yeten, from Old English ??otan (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Germanic *geutan? (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *??ewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Scots yat (“to yet”), West Frisian jitte (“to scatter, shed, pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour, cast, mould”), German gießen (“to pour, cast, mould”), Swedish gjuta (“to pour, cast”). More at yote.

Alternative forms

• yit
• yete (obsolete)

Verb

yet (third-person singular simple present yets, present participle yetting, simple past and past participle yetted or yet)

1. (dialectal) To melt; found; cast, as metal.

Noun

yet (plural yets)

1. (dialectal) A metal pan or boiler; yetling.

Etymology 3

From Middle English yeten, ?eten, from Old English ?ietan.

Verb

yet (third-person singular simple present yets, present participle yetting, simple past yot, past participle yotten)

1. (nonstandard, West Country) To get.

Anagrams

• -ety, Tye, ety, t'ye, tey, tye

Cahuilla

Noun

yét

1. female (animal)

Scots

Etymology

From Old English ??et, g?ta, from Proto-Germanic *juta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [j?t], [j?t]

Adverb

yet (not comparable)

1. yet, up to now, now as before, at present, still

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English yet.

Adverb

yet

1. still
2. already
3. yet