{
    "term": "yet",
    "partOfSpeech": "adverb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "used in negative sentences and questions to talk about something that has not happened but that you expect to happen",
            "sensetop": "not yethave yet to do something",
            "labels": "(British English)(North American English)North American EnglishNorth American EnglishBritish EnglishBritish EnglishNorth American English(British English)(North American English)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I haven't received a letter from him yet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't receive a letter from him yet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Are you ready?’ ‘No, not yet.’",
                    "contextForm": "not yet"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We **don't yet know** what really happened."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have **yet to decide** what action to take *(= We have not decided what action to take)*.",
                    "contextForm": "have yet to do something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "now; as soon as this",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Don't go yet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We don't need to start yet."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "used to emphasize an increase in number or amount or the number of times something happens",
            "sensetop": "yet more…yet another…yet again",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "snow, snow and yet more snow",
                    "contextForm": "yet more…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "yet another diet book",
                    "contextForm": "yet another…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Prices were cut yet again *(= once more, after many other times)*.",
                    "contextForm": "yet again"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "used to emphasize that something is the best, longest, etc. thing of its kind made, produced, written, etc. until now/then",
            "sensetop": "the best, longest, etc. something yet",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the most comprehensive study yet of his music"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was the tallest building yet constructed anywhere."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "from now until the period of time mentioned has passed",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He'll be busy for ages yet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They won't arrive for at least two hours yet."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "used to say that something could, might, etc. happen in the future, even though it seems unlikely",
            "sensetop": "could, might, may, etc. do something yet",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We may win yet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She could yet surprise us all."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "used to emphasize an increase in the degree of something (= how bad, important, etc. it is)",
            "sensetop": "yet worse, more importantly, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a recent and yet more improbable theory"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "until now or until a particular time in the past",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an as yet unpublished report"
                },
                {
                    "text": "As yet little was known of the causes of the disease."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that while one thing is good, another thing is even better",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You can see and, better yet, hear the effects of these changes on their website."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wanted to make my parents proud by becoming a lawyer or, better yet, a doctor."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "not now but probably quite soon",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I can't give you the money just yet."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to comment on something that was almost successful but in fact failed",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Difficulty and failure"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/jet/",
                "audio": "ye/yet/yet__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/jet/",
                "audio": "ye/yet/yet__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English gīet(a), of unknown origin."
}