Yoke in a sentence as a noun

He’d stash his yoke and plow there, sometimes, when he didn’t feel like hauling them all the way back to Parícutin village.

So you steer by pushing/turn the yoke a bit to the right/left and wait until you reached your desired turning rate.

Instead a lot of the Japanese pilots would take their hands off the yoke and say "no no, very bad, impossible.

For example, you might automate part of the problem and add a poka-yoke in another script.

The sky is mostly empty, and planes will generally continue to fly straight ahead even if you let go of the control yoke.

Everything you don't see as your own failing ... you have no control over and are destined to suffer under its yoke for the rest of your life.

'Gainful' employment doesn't mean that you yoke yourself to someone else's factory somewhere; it means you own your own plot of land and work it.

Following that, inflation drove the Lords out of the counties to the cities, lifting the yoke of the local despots and freeing the country.

Yoke in a sentence as a verb

"People in power make little daily nudges, those under the yoke follow the path of least resistance, and society wanders towards an equilibrium.

I don't understand the urge to yoke societies together in unhelpful ways any more than I get why incompatible people enter bad marriages.

It also pushed the US into the genuine battle for national existence raging over the other half of the planet in which millions of people were already under the yoke of an invader.

This seems to me a bit like saying we could never have a flat tablet computer because its impossible to have a perfectly flat crt that's thin enough what with the magnetic yoke, the electron beam, shadow mask etc."Breakthrough" is used much too often these days.

You are my favorite person of the day, because when I saw this post title, I said "Oh great, now I'm going to spend my morning writing another comment about how the placebo effect is probably mostly an illusion," and now I am released from that yoke.

I believe, and sociologists may support me, that much of the recent turn towards extremism has been part of an attempt to reconstruct a national and social identity that had for so long been under the yoke of The Great Game and similar enormities carried out by Eurasian empires.

Getting it right is hard for a few reasons:First, instead of the first derivation of direction like a steering wheel in a car the stick/yoke of a plane actually controls the second derivation of the heading, meaning that pushing it a bit to the right not only causes a turn to the right but it will turn right faster and faster.

Yoke definitions

noun

fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment

noun

an oppressive power; "under the yoke of a tyrant"; "they threw off the yoke of domination"

noun

two items of the same kind

noun

a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke; "pulled by a yoke of oxen"

noun

support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end

noun

a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together

See also: coupling

noun

stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team

verb

become joined or linked together

verb

link with or as with a yoke; "yoke the oxen together"

See also: link

verb

put a yoke on or join with a yoke; "Yoke the draft horses together"