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Yea vs Yew - What's the difference?

yea | yew |

As nouns the difference between yea and yew

is that yea is an affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken while yew is a species of coniferous tree, species: Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.

As an adverb yea

is yes.

As a conjunction yea

is or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.

As an interjection yea

is yeah, right, yes.

As an adjective yew is

made from the wood of the yew tree.

yea

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (dated) yes
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
    • Yea , have not too many amongst us added to their unreformation an impudence in sinning?
  • Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture)
    • The pony was yea high.

    Synonyms

    * (yes) aye, yep, yes, yup

    Antonyms

    * nay * no

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (archaic) or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
  • * c. 1633 ,
    • O stay, three lives in one flea spare,
    Where we almost, yea , more than married are.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • yeah, right, yes
  • alternative form of yeah

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 6, , Still Broken After All These Years, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Recently senators could fax in their yeas or nays to the committee chairman. }}

    Anagrams

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    yew

    English

    (wikipedia yew) (Taxus)

    Noun

  • (countable) A species of coniferous tree, , with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.
  • (countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus .
  • Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus
  • # in family
  • # in family
  • (uncountable) The wood of the such trees.
  • *
  • A bow for archery, made of yew wood.

    • Synonyms

    * , (common yew)

    Derived terms

    * (European yew), (common yew) (Taxus baccata ) * (Pacific yew), (western yew) () * (Canadian yew) () * (Chinese yew) () * Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata ) * (Florida yew) () * (Mexican yew) () * (Sumatran yew) () * (Himalayan yew) () * (white-berry yew) () * (New Caledonian yew), (southern yew) () * (catkin yew) ( sp.) * (plum yew) (also plum-yew) ( sp.) * (vern, Prince Albert's yew) () * self-yew

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made from the wood of the yew tree.

    • References

    See also

    * (Taxus baccata)

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