Meaning

26 senses
  1. Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

    A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; two draught animals connected by such a yoke; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.

    Joch

    ярмо́jarmó, хому́тxomút, и́гоígo

    ярмо́jarmó, хому́тxomút, і́гоího

  2. Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

  3. Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

    A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.

    support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end

  4. Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.

  5. Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.

    A similar device used as a game controller.

  6. Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

    Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.

  7. The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.

    коке́ткаkokétka

  8. Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).

  9. The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.

  10. A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.

  11. A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.

  12. (US)A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung.

Examples

12 sentences
  1. They were under the yoke of a tyrant.

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  2. Grandma knit the sweater's yoke on circular needles.

    ruБабушка вяжет кокетку свитера на круговых спицах.

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  3. The yoke we bear today will be lifted.

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  4. The country bore the yoke of tyranny for two decades.

    ruСтрана два десятилетия жила под гнётом тирании.

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  5. Yoke the oxen to the plow.

    ruЗапряги волов в плуг.

    deSpann die Ochsen vor den Pflug.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose:
Русский
By meaning 2
bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose:
part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose:
pair of draught animals yoked together to pull something:
something which represses or restrains a person — see also burden:

Origin

From Middle English iuc, jok, yok, yoke, ȝok, ȝook, from Old English ġeoc, ġioc, ioc (“yok

From Middle English iuc, jok, yok, yoke, ȝok, ȝook, from Old English ġeoc, ġioc, ioc (“yoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *juk, from Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”), from *yewg- (“to join, yoke”). Doublet of yuga, jugum, yoga and possibly yogh.

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Forms

plural: yokes
Singularyoke
Pluralyokes

regular

Synonyms

18 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
yoke — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto