yoke
v.
put a burden on; connect, join; enslave
yoke
Noun
1. fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment
(hypernym) fabric, cloth, material, textile
(hyponym) tucker
(part-holonym) garment
2. an oppresssive power; "under the yoke of a tyrant"; "they threw off the yoke of domination"
(hypernym) oppression
3. two items of the same kind
(synonym) couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad
(hypernym) two, 2, II, deuce
(hyponym) doubleton
4. a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke; "pulled by a yoke of oxen"
(hypernym) pair
5. support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end
(hypernym) support
6. a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
(synonym) coupling
(hypernym) connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective
(derivation) link
7. stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
(hypernym) stable gear, saddlery, tack
(derivation) link
Verb
1. become joined or linked together
(hypernym) join, conjoin
(derivation) coupling
(classification) animal husbandry
2. link with or as with a yoke; "yoke the oxen together"
(synonym) link
(hypernym) attach
(derivation) coupling
(classification) animal husbandry
3. put a yoke on or join with a yoke; "Yoke the draft horses together"
(antonym) unyoke
(hypernym) attach
(hyponym) inspan
(classification) animal husbandry
Yoked
(imp. & p. p.)
of Yoke
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
yoked
Synonyms and related words:
affiliate, affiliated, allied, assembled, associate, associated, banded together, biconjugate, bigeminate, bijugate, bound, bracketed, collateral, collected, conjoined, conjugate, conjugated, connected, copulate, correlated, coupled, gathered, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, implicated, incorporated, integrated, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimate, involved, joined, knotted, leagued, linked, matched, mated, merged, of that ilk, of that kind, paired, parallel, related, spliced, tied, twinned, undivided, united, unseparated, wed, wedded
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
YOKED
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