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词汇 yoke
释义 yoke
noun[ C ]
uk /jəʊk/ us /joʊk/

yokenoun[C] (FOR ANIMALS)


a wooden bar that is fastened over the necks of two animals, especially cattle, and connected to the vehicle or load that they are pulling轭;(尤指)牛轭
 
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Farm vehicles & equipment
all-terrain vehicle
ATV
binder
Caterpillar tractor
combine
goad
harrow
harvester
milker
milking machine
planter
plough
ploughshare
reaper
scarecrow
seeder
sifter
sorter
spreader
tractor

yokenoun[C] (IN CLOTHING)


a fitted part of a piece of clothing, especially a strip that goes around the shoulders or waist, to which is sewn a looser piece of material上衣抵肩;裙腰
 
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Parts of clothes
armhole
bodice
cap sleeve
clerical collar
collar
cowl neck
dart
knee
lapel
neckband
neckline
patch pocket
peplum
slash
spaghetti strap
sweetheart neckline
turn up (somewhere)
turtleneck
V-neck
waist

yokenoun[C] (CONNECTION)


formal
something that connects two things or people, usually in a way that unfairly limits freedom: 纽带,联结;(通常指)束缚,枷锁
the yoke of marriage婚姻纽带
Both countries had thrown off the communist yoke.两国都已经摆脱了共产主义的枷锁。
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Power to control
absolute authority
ahold
all's well that ends wellidiom
all-powerful
ascendancy
authoritarianism
discretionary
driven
girl power
grip
he who pays the piper calls the tune.idiom
implant
power base
power grab
power structure
power struggle
power-sharing
the hand that rocks the cradle rules the worldidiom
the upper hand
under the command of someone

yokenoun[C] (IRISH)


Irish Englishinformal
a thing whose name you do not know or cannot remember:
What's that yoke there?
Ah, it's a great yoke.
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Objects - general words
affair
Americana
artefact
baby
blank
column
conversation piece
doodah
entity
ephemera
extrusion
forensics
nick-nack
non-abstract
object
phenomenon
piece
shape
snow globe
such and such
yoke
verb
uk /jəʊk/ us /joʊk/

yokeverb (ANIMALS)


[ T ]
to put a yoke on animals, especially cattle, so that they are fastened together and to a connected vehicle or load: 轭;(尤指)牛轭
Two oxen yoked to a plough walked wearily up and down the field.两头用轭套在犁上的公牛在吃力地来回耕地。
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Fastening and tying
be locked togetheridiom
belay
bind
board something up
bound
bowline
clamp
gag
granny knot
half hitch
harness
hobble
hogtie
square knot
stake
strap
strap someone in
strap something up
strop
tack

yokeverb (THINGS)


[ Toften passive ]formal
to combine or connect two things: 联合,使结合
All these different political elements have somehow been yoked together to form a new alliance.所有这些不同的政治力量不知怎地结成了一个新的联盟。
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Connecting and combining
abut
additive
adjoin
affix something to something
agglomerate
connectedly
connecting
converge
convergence
cor
intertwine
interweave
isthmic
jointed
junction
umbilical
unification
unified
unify
unintegrated

yoke | American Dictionary


yoke
noun[ C ]
us/joʊk/
(esp. in the past) a wooden bar fastened over the necks of two animals, esp. cattle, and connected to a vehicle or load that they are pulling
fig. Yoke can also refer to something that unfairly limits freedom:
the yoke of slavery

Examples of yoke


yoke
Using the ' yoked control ' condition, we could analyse thinking time and motor speed separately.
Test trials and yoked control trials were arranged in 4 blocks of 6 problems each.
Discourse and practice become firmly yoked to each other, for example, in the use of metaphors and methods of prediction and control.
The parity of that beacon with the speaker's subject position is emphasised by the internal rhyme which yokes it to the heavily endstopped "me" at the end of the line.
Initial thinking time was the time between the presentation of the problem and the first touch, minus the corresponding motor initiation time calculated from the yoked control task.
I do not think that this is an entirely satisfactory justification for yoking the undertaker to the local authority.
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I was not persuaded that being yoked to unbelievers was a sufficient cause for exemption.
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We are now all united and yoked together in a great design.
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However, to do so, you have had to accept being yoked together with the governments concerned.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Many of us feel that private enterprise and the interest and welfare of the community should go hand in hand, and, if necessary, be yoked togeher.
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There are two types of yokes which are used for gowns.
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Connected by timbers shackled together with iron yokes and rings, the piers anchored an enclosure into which the river current forced floating logs.
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Your souls will find rest, for my yoke is easy and my burden light.
The fields are prepared with the help of yokes of oxen.
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Animals were restrained with the aid of a neck yoke.
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