Y

Examples

• All

• And we're going from B to Y, from B to Y.

• All we did was replace Y with Y.

• What kind of function is X -, Y of X, Y?

• Should we date person X or Y or get married to them?

• So when when X happens, then Y gets this.

  Rich Roll

• If you know that Y does affect X?

• We got personality, with a capital Y.

  Happy Feet (2006)

• What's the expectation of a particular Y, right?

• Show us those Y chromosomes.

  Why Hide? (2018)

• All the genes on the Y chromosome probably have only a few million years left before they vanish.

  Academic text (2002)

Synonyms

Y

y

vsY

23 8.5

The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet

is the same without specifying the modern form

W

wye

vsY

• US

1 9.9

The word for the letter Y

refers to the character itself rather than its name

Compounds

Y

Y chromosome

• Specialized

7 5.5

A part of cells in males that helps decide male body features

R

regression of y on x

• Specialized

8.7

A method that predicts the value of y from x using numbers

Y

y-axis

• Specialized

4.0

The vertical line on a graph that shows measured values

Y

Y-shaped coffin

9.9

A coffin with three arms that meet at one end to form a Y shape

Y

Y-linked gene

• Specialized

7.5

A gene on the Y chromosome that only fathers pass to their sons

Surface Forms

Etymology