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Already (adverb)
Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
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Already (adverb)
So soon.
“Are you quitting already?”
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Already (adverb)
An intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation.
“I wish they’d finish already, so we can get going.”
“Enough already!”
“Be quiet already!”
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Yet (adverb)
Thus far; up to the present; up to some specified time.
“He has never yet been late for an appointment;”
“I’m not yet wise enough to answer that;”
“Have you finished yet?”
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Yet (adverb)
Continuously up to the current time; still.
“The workers went to the factory early and are striking yet.”
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Yet (adverb)
At some future time; eventually.
“The riddle will be solved yet.”
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Yet (adverb)
Not as of the time referenced.
“I’ve yet to see him. — I have not yet seen him.”
“I had yet to go to a convention. — I had not yet gone to a convention.”
“He seemed yet to be convinced. — He seemed not yet to have been convinced.”
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Yet (adverb)
In addition.
“There are two hours yet to go until our destination.”
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Yet (adverb)
Even.
“K-2 is yet higher than this.”
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Yet (conjunction)
Nevertheless; however; but; despite that.
“I thought I knew you, yet how wrong I was.”
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Yet (verb)
To melt; found; cast, as metal.
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Yet (noun)
A metal pan or boiler; yetling.
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Yet (adverb)
up until the present or a specified or implied time; by now or then
“I haven’t told anyone else yet”
“aren’t you ready to go yet?”
“I have yet to be convinced”
“the congress was widely acclaimed as the best yet”
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Yet (adverb)
as soon as the present or a specified or implied time
“wait, don’t go yet”
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Yet (adverb)
from now into the future for a specified length of time
“I hope to continue for some time yet”
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Yet (adverb)
referring to something that will or may happen in the future
“further research may yet explain the enigma”
“I know she’s alive and I’ll find her yet”
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Yet (adverb)
still; even (used to emphasize increase or repetition)
“snow, snow, and yet more snow”
“yet another diet book”
“the rations were reduced yet again”
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Yet (adverb)
in spite of that; nevertheless
“every week she gets worse, and yet it could go on for years”
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Yet (conjunction)
but at the same time; but nevertheless
“the path was dark, yet I slowly found my way”