{
  "yoke":{
    "antonyms":[
      "catenate",
      "chain",
      "compound",
      "concatenate",
      "conjugate",
      "connect",
      "couple",
      "hitch",
      "hook",
      "interconnect",
      "interlink",
      "join",
      "link"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a bar by which the end of the tongue of a wagon or carriage is suspended from the collars of the harness":[],
      ": a clamp or similar piece that embraces two parts to hold or unite them in position":[],
      ": a crosspiece on the head of a boat's rudder":[],
      ": a fitted or shaped piece at the top of a skirt or at the shoulder of various garments":[],
      ": a frame fitted to a person's shoulders to carry a load in two equal portions":[],
      ": a frame from which a bell is hung":[],
      ": a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together":[],
      ": an airplane control operating the elevators and ailerons":[],
      ": an arched device formerly laid on the neck of a defeated person":[],
      ": an oppressive agency":[],
      ": servitude , bondage":[],
      ": to become joined or linked":[],
      ": to join as if by a yoke":[],
      ": to join in or with a yoke":[],
      ": to put a yoke on":[],
      ": to put to work":[],
      ": two animals yoked or worked together":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "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: Noun",
      "In that May 10 case, the passenger commandeered the yoke and safely landed the aircraft, guided by air traffic control. \u2014 Andrea Sachs, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
      "The spartan interior features a yoke -like steering wheel, small screens for its side-view cameras, sporty racing seats and a head-up display. \u2014 Peter Lyon, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
      "The yoke -steering version also gets a different instrument cluster that is an inch and half higher and slightly farther from the driver. \u2014 Csaba Csere, Car and Driver , 2 May 2022",
      "For his next trick, Hall will release a video of himself doing a 500-pound yoke carry for five hours across a dry lake bed. \u2014 Men's Health , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "The rush to express eagerness for Ukraine to come under the Russian yoke \u2014or to even applaud Putin for invading a sovereign and democratic country\u2014could be understood as an attempt to fill that America First vacuum. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "State media has also been playing on a popular perception in Russia that Ukraine is under the yoke of corrupt and inept leadership. \u2014 Ann M. Simmons, WSJ , 1 May 2022",
      "Less than a year after shaking off the yoke of dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, a review of the habous system was atop their agenda in 2012. \u2014 Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Its struggle to emerge from the yoke of Soviet aggression during the Cold War became a stirring example of courage in the name of freedom. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "At the same time, the slowing of Moore\u2019s 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. \u2014 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. \u2014 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. \u2014 Melanie Zanona, CNN , 6 Aug. 2021",
      "Trump, meanwhile, managed to yoke the meeting to his administration\u2019s campaign to buttress Israel on the world stage. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Sep. 2020",
      "Progress required that citizens yoke themselves to an immoral economy in ever more complex ways. \u2014 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. \u2014 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. \u2014 The Economist , 27 June 2020",
      "Still, these mutually resentful women can\u2019t disengage: their womanhood, and an accompanying unease in the world, keep them yoked together, entangled in talk. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 20 Apr. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a(1)":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English yok , from Old English geoc ; akin to Old High German joh yoke, Latin jugum , Greek zygon , Sanskrit yuga , Latin jungere to join":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8y\u014dk"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bondage",
      "enslavement",
      "servility",
      "servitude",
      "slavery",
      "thrall",
      "thralldom",
      "thraldom"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111631",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "yokel":{
    "antonyms":[
      "cosmopolitan",
      "cosmopolite",
      "sophisticate"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a lame comedy about the misadventures of yokels in the big city",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The first comic, Charles F. Browne, hit the lecture circuit in 1861 and adopted the pseudonymous persona of a country yokel named Artemus Ward. \u2014 Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor , 29 Nov. 2021",
      "At first he was depicted as a country yokel , but by the end of that first season the puppet\u2019s operator, Carroll Spinney, had changed tack. \u2014 The Economist , 14 Dec. 2019",
      "King himself directed this gloriously goofy adaptation of a short story from his Night Shift collection about a group of local yokels trapped in a roadside truck stop by a convoy of killer big rigs. \u2014 Matthew Chernov, chicagotribune.com , 5 Sep. 2019",
      "Urbanites defined themselves as forward-looking sophisticates who sneered at yokels in backwaters; cosmopolitanism faced off against parochialism. \u2014 Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books , 7 Feb. 2019",
      "Every single in-game model, from huge wooden shacks to flying spaceships, and from slack-jawed yokels to individual blades of grass, has been handsomely redrawn by this remaster's development team. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 11 June 2019",
      "How not to be a local yokel The parents of one of David Benglian\u2019s Penn classmates bought their son a Society Hill townhouse to live in during the school year. \u2014 Alfred Lubrano, Philly.com , 25 Oct. 2017",
      "Though comic buffoons and yokels are scattered through a number of Shakespeare\u2019s tragedies, Lear\u2019s universe is relentlessly bleak, and the Fool, despite his jingling, is neither oaf nor jester. \u2014 Cynthia Ozick, New York Times , 25 Oct. 2017",
      "Everyone is too goddamn afraid of Trump and his band of yokels . \u2014 GQ , 11 Oct. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1819, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps from English dialect yokel green woodpecker, of imitative origin":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8y\u014d-k\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bumpkin",
      "chawbacon",
      "churl",
      "clodhopper",
      "cornball",
      "countryman",
      "hayseed",
      "hick",
      "provincial",
      "rube",
      "rustic"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021647",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "Yokuts":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an Indian people of the San Joaquin Valley and adjacent Sierra Nevada slopes, California":[],
      ": a member of such people":[],
      ": a Mariposan language of the Yokuts people":[],
      ": mariposan":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8y\u014d(\u02cc)k\u0259ts"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Yokuts, people":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-124443"
  },
  "Yokosuka":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "city and port in Honshu, Japan, west of the entrance to Tokyo Bay population 418,325":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "y\u014d-\u02c8k\u022f-s(\u0259-)k\u00e4"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-152537"
  },
  "Yokohama fowl":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": japanese fowl":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-172902"
  },
  "Yokohama bean":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-180052"
  },
  "Yokohama":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "city and port south of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay in southeastern Honshu, Japan population 3,688,773":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccy\u014d-k\u014d-\u02c8h\u00e4-m\u00e4"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-180351"
  },
  "yoke-toed":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having two toes in front and two behind : zygodactyl":[
        "most woodpeckers are yoke-toed"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-182051"
  },
  "yoke riveter":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a pneumatic riveter connected by a yoke with a dolly so that the center lines of the two coincide":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-200051"
  },
  "yokemate":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": yokefellow":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-230659"
  },
  "yokefellow":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a close companion : mate":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8y\u014dk-\u02ccfe-(\u02cc)l\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1526, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220713-000004"
  },
  "yoke elm":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": hornbeam sense 1a":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220715-092656"
  },
  "yoke-footed":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": yoke-toed":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220713-000543"
  },
  "yoke bone":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": zygomatic bone":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220713-004655"
  },
  "yokelry":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": gullible unsophisticated countryfolk : yokels":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-ri",
      "-k\u0259lr\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220713-011455"
  },
  "yokels":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8y\u014d-k\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bumpkin",
      "chawbacon",
      "churl",
      "clodhopper",
      "cornball",
      "countryman",
      "hayseed",
      "hick",
      "provincial",
      "rube",
      "rustic"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "cosmopolitan",
      "cosmopolite",
      "sophisticate"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "a lame comedy about the misadventures of yokels in the big city",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The first comic, Charles F. Browne, hit the lecture circuit in 1861 and adopted the pseudonymous persona of a country yokel named Artemus Ward. \u2014 Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor , 29 Nov. 2021",
      "At first he was depicted as a country yokel , but by the end of that first season the puppet\u2019s operator, Carroll Spinney, had changed tack. \u2014 The Economist , 14 Dec. 2019",
      "King himself directed this gloriously goofy adaptation of a short story from his Night Shift collection about a group of local yokels trapped in a roadside truck stop by a convoy of killer big rigs. \u2014 Matthew Chernov, chicagotribune.com , 5 Sep. 2019",
      "Urbanites defined themselves as forward-looking sophisticates who sneered at yokels in backwaters; cosmopolitanism faced off against parochialism. \u2014 Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books , 7 Feb. 2019",
      "Every single in-game model, from huge wooden shacks to flying spaceships, and from slack-jawed yokels to individual blades of grass, has been handsomely redrawn by this remaster's development team. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 11 June 2019",
      "How not to be a local yokel The parents of one of David Benglian\u2019s Penn classmates bought their son a Society Hill townhouse to live in during the school year. \u2014 Alfred Lubrano, Philly.com , 25 Oct. 2017",
      "Though comic buffoons and yokels are scattered through a number of Shakespeare\u2019s tragedies, Lear\u2019s universe is relentlessly bleak, and the Fool, despite his jingling, is neither oaf nor jester. \u2014 Cynthia Ozick, New York Times , 25 Oct. 2017",
      "Everyone is too goddamn afraid of Trump and his band of yokels . \u2014 GQ , 11 Oct. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps from English dialect yokel green woodpecker, of imitative origin":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1819, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220713-021953"
  },
  "yokelish":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": characteristic of or resembling a yokel : rude , uncouth":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-k(\u0259)lish"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220713-022612"
  }
}