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yoke
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural yokes
plural yokes
Learner's definition of YOKE
1
[count] : a bar or frame that is attached to the heads or necks of two work animals (such as oxen) so that they can pull a plow or heavy load轭；牛轭
2
[singular] formal + literary : something that causes people to be treated cruelly and unfairly especially by taking away their freedom枷锁；束缚 — + of
- The country has struggled to free itself from the yoke of foreign rule.这个国家通过斗争摆脱了外国统治的枷锁。
- the yoke of tyranny暴政的奴役
2 yoke /ˈjoʊk/ verb
yokes; yoked; yoking
2 yoke
/ˈjoʊk/
verb
yokes; yoked; yoking
Learner's definition of YOKE
[+ object]
: to connect (two animals) by a yoke给（两只动物）套上轭 — often used figuratively常用作比喻
- The two oxen were yoked together.两头牛被套上了牛轭。
- He was yoked to his job.他工作缠身。
plural yokes
1
a
: a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together
b
: an arched device formerly laid on the neck of a defeated person
c
: a frame fitted to a person's shoulders to carry a load in two equal portions
d
: a bar by which the end of the tongue of a wagon or carriage is suspended from the collars of the harness
e(1)
: a crosspiece on the head of a boat's rudder
(2)
: an airplane control operating the elevators and ailerons
f
: a frame from which a bell is hung
g
: a clamp or similar piece that embraces two parts to hold or unite them in position
yoked; yoking
: to become joined or linked
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Noun a people able at last to throw off the yoke and to embrace freedom Verb The two oxen were yoked together. yoked several ideas together to come up with a new theory
Recent Examples on the Web
Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2022 Instead, these functions exist as touch-capacitive controls on the yoke's spokes. Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2022 Mortensen becomes Rick Stanton, one of the world’s greatest cave divers, a man who feels the hefty yoke of moral obligation and the burden of responsibility to save thirteen souls stranded in a cave chamber miles under a mountain. Paddy O'connell, Outside Online, 4 Aug. 2022 That means the hoop section comes in lime-green, with the yoke and grip now pistachio colored. Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022 The persistence of a country’s internal politics beneath the occupier’s yoke repeatedly features in the story that Ms. Kochanski tells. Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022 The air traffic controller, Robert Morgan, guided the passenger who found himself behind the yoke as the turbo prop aircraft traveled just off the coast of Florida, according to audio transmission from LiveATC.net. Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022 Her friends were negritude writers and artists, colonial subjects who were militating to be free of the French yoke. David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 In that May 10 case, the passenger commandeered the yoke and safely landed the aircraft, guided by air traffic control. Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 2 June 2022 Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022 At the same time, the slowing of Moore’s Law has triggered a pre-Cambrian explosion of chip design startups, some with radical new ideas for how to configure chips and yoke them together. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 13 May 2022 Elder also has emerged as the favorite target of Newsom, who has done his best to yoke the conservative to former President Trump, who is widely unpopular in California. Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021 Democrats plan to yoke the entire party, especially vulnerable members in tough districts, to Greene in the midterms. Melanie Zanona, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021 Trump, meanwhile, managed to yoke the meeting to his administration’s campaign to buttress Israel on the world stage. Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2020 Progress required that citizens yoke themselves to an immoral economy in ever more complex ways. R.h. Lossin, The New York Review of Books, 4 Sep. 2020 Munch has the daring to yoke this world-menacing science fiction and world-historical politics to peculiarly intimate settings. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 June 2020 Yet none of the other technocrats succeeded in heading a second government, as Mr Conte has done since last September, when the M5S switched partners to yoke itself to the centre-left Democratic Party. The Economist, 27 June 2020 See More
Noun
The Soviet Union quickly began to disintegrate as the captive Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia peeled away and other nations that had long been under Moscow’s yoke, including Ukraine, sought independence. Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2022 Instead, these functions exist as touch-capacitive controls on the yoke's spokes. Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2022 Mortensen becomes Rick Stanton, one of the world’s greatest cave divers, a man who feels the hefty yoke of moral obligation and the burden of responsibility to save thirteen souls stranded in a cave chamber miles under a mountain. Paddy O'connell, Outside Online, 4 Aug. 2022 That means the hoop section comes in lime-green, with the yoke and grip now pistachio colored. Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022 The persistence of a country’s internal politics beneath the occupier’s yoke repeatedly features in the story that Ms. Kochanski tells. Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022 The air traffic controller, Robert Morgan, guided the passenger who found himself behind the yoke as the turbo prop aircraft traveled just off the coast of Florida, according to audio transmission from LiveATC.net. Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022 Her friends were negritude writers and artists, colonial subjects who were militating to be free of the French yoke. David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 In that May 10 case, the passenger commandeered the yoke and safely landed the aircraft, guided by air traffic control. Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 2 June 2022 Verb
Amid a broader housing crisis, the proposal would also yoke the development of some new hotels to affordable housing construction. Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022 At the same time, the slowing of Moore’s Law has triggered a pre-Cambrian explosion of chip design startups, some with radical new ideas for how to configure chips and yoke them together. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 13 May 2022 Elder also has emerged as the favorite target of Newsom, who has done his best to yoke the conservative to former President Trump, who is widely unpopular in California. Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021 Democrats plan to yoke the entire party, especially vulnerable members in tough districts, to Greene in the midterms. Melanie Zanona, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021 Trump, meanwhile, managed to yoke the meeting to his administration’s campaign to buttress Israel on the world stage. Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2020 Progress required that citizens yoke themselves to an immoral economy in ever more complex ways. R.h. Lossin, The New York Review of Books, 4 Sep. 2020 Munch has the daring to yoke this world-menacing science fiction and world-historical politics to peculiarly intimate settings. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 June 2020 Yet none of the other technocrats succeeded in heading a second government, as Mr Conte has done since last September, when the M5S switched partners to yoke itself to the centre-left Democratic Party. The Economist, 27 June 2020 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English yok, from Old English geoc; akin to Old High German joh yoke, Latin jugum, Greek zygon, Sanskrit yuga, Latin jungere to join
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a(1)
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