yoking
present participle ofyoke
yoke
verb
uk/jəʊk/us/joʊk/yokeverb(ANIMALS)
[T]
to put a yoke onanimals,especiallycattle, so that they arefastenedtogether and to aconnectedvehicleorload:
Twooxenyokedtoaploughwalkedwearilyup and down thefield.
Fastening and tying
- anchor
- bale
- be locked togetheridiom
- belay
- bind
- boardsomethingup
- bound
- bowline
- granny knot
- half hitch
- harness
- hobble
- hogtie
- stake
- strap
- strapsomeonein
- strapsomethingup
- tack
- tapesomethingup
- tether
yokeverb(THINGS)
[Toften passive]formal
tocombineorconnecttwo things:
All these differentpoliticalelementshavesomehowbeen yokedtogethertoforma newalliance.
Connecting and combining
- abut
- additive
- adjoin
- affix
- agglutinate
- aggregation
- desegregate
- desegregation
- dovetail
- eclectic
- eclectically
- hyphenate
- link(something)up
- linkage
- lumpsomeone/somethingtogether
- marriage
- marry
- weave
- weaving
- yoke
Examplesofyoking
yoking
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Thisyokingof ' ' violence and stardom ' ' has the effect of making the criminal both familiar and strange, ordinary and extraordinary.
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Thisyokingprocedure helped control for between-group variability due to differences in the semantic properties of the words.
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Thisyokingof imperialism and bardic nationalism is powerful if fundamentally unstable.
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This difference could be tested byyokingpairs of subjects together in the following way.
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The effect of thisyokingof theology and philosophy, religion and ethics, has been extremely damaging to moral conduct.
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Basham may dilute the power of the spirits byyokingthem to secular - success stories.
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Botanical and horticultural periodicals disseminated both science and prescriptions for practice,yokingthem to a progressive social agenda, including the betterment of the working class and urban planning.
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I do not think that this is an entirely satisfactory justification foryokingthe undertaker to the local authority.
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Since the three-horseyokingwas uncommon, "trigarius" may also mean a participant in the equestrian exercises of the "trigarium" in general.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Through this superior projection, the medial vestibulospinal tract is involved inyokingthe eyes together in response to rapid movement of the head.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In his lyrics he is happiest whenyokingone or the other of these emotions to serve a philosophy of life, often audacious, but always genial.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The preferred type of sinews came from the feet of deer (assumedly achilles tendons because they were longest) and the necks of oxen (strong from constantyoking).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It has the characteristic of driving associated states towards the object, the function of joining (yoking) associated states to the object, the manifestation of facing the object.
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