yet

noun

(dialectal) A metal pan or boiler; yetling.

verb

(nonstandard, West Country) To get.

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

(obsolete) To pour.

adverb

In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.

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

In addition.

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

At some future time; eventually.

(degree) Even.

In negative imperative use, asking for an action to be delayed.

(poetic or archaic) In affirmative use: still.

Synonyms for yet

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