yes

[yes]

Yes is a confirmation or an affirmative a positive reply. When you say yes to a friend's invitation to a party, it means you'll be there.

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Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no.

Noun
an affirmative; "I was hoping for a yes"


adv.
Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no.


Yes

Yes , adv. [OE. yis, 'f4is, 'f4es, 'f4ise, AS. gese, gise; probably fr. ge'a0 yea + sw'be so. &root;188. See Yea, and So.] Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no. &hand; Yes is used, like yea, to enforce, by repetition or addition, something which precedes; as, you have done all this -- yes, you have done more. "Yes, you despise the man books confined." Pope. &hand; "The fine distinction between 'bfyea' and 'bfyes,' 'bfnay' and 'bfno,' that once existed in English, has quite disappeared. 'bfYea' and 'bfnay' in Wyclif's time, and a good deal later, were the answers to questions framed in the affirmative. 'bfWill he come?' To this it would have been replied, 'bfYea' or 'bfNay', as the case might be. But, 'bfWill he not come?' To this the answer would have been 'bfYes' or 'bfNo.' Sir Thomas More finds fault with Tyndale, that in his translation of the Bible he had not observed this distinction, which was evidently therefore going out even then, that is, in the reign of Henry VIII.; and shortly after it was quite forgotten." Trench.

Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no.

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Usage Examples

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

Misspelled Form

yes, tyes, 6yes, 7yes, uyes, hyes, tes, 6es, 7es, ues, hes, ytes, y6es, y7es, yues, yhes, ywes, y3es, y4es, yres, yses, ydes, yws, y3s, y4s, yrs, yss, yds, yews, ye3s, ye4s, yers, yess, yeds, yeas, yews, yees, yeds, yexs, yezs, yea, yew, yee, yed, yex, yez, yesa, yesw, yese, yesd, yesx, yesz.

Other Usage Examples

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.

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