Yet is a common English word that, when used as a conjunction, is equivalent to the words "but" or "nevertheless". However, used as an adverb, ''yet'' defines an action's persistence in

time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...

. The word can define an action in the past, present or future: *''I have never yet been late.'' *''I yet stand.'' *''I will yet arrive.'' "yet" in questions: *''What do you have yet to learn?'' (in the future) *''Have you done it ?'' <=> ''Have you already done it?'' (in the past) The above use of "" is illogical, but very common and thus considered correct. Yet, or YET, may also refer to: *YET, the IATA code for

Edson Airport Edson Airport is located within the town of Edson, Alberta, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocea ...

, Alberta, Canada *YET, the National Rail code for

Yetminster railway station Yetminster railway station serves the village of Yetminster in Dorset, England. The station is on the Heart of Wessex Line, north of Weymouth. The station is from the zero point at London Paddington, measured via Swindon and Westbury. Yetmi ...

in Dorset, UK * "Yet" (song) by the American band Exile *

Yett A yett (from the Old English and Scots language word for "gate") is a gate or grille of latticed wrought iron bars used for defensive purposes in castles and tower houses. Unlike a portcullis, which is raised and lowered vertically using mecha ...

, sometimes spelt ''yet'' is a local dialect term in lowland Scotland and Cumbria for a reinforced door or gate

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