to yoke

Examples

• All

• In Paul's stories, we are each of us yoked to the fate of all of us.

• That's what metaphor does; it's yoking two disparate elements.

  Academic text (2000)

• Is it our ability to yoke action and intention to be right here, right now.

  André Duqum

• So the light sort of looks right to you, but rather under correct that and sort of really force you to exercise, trying to yoke your two eyes straight together.

  Andrew Huberman

• The idea that faith should yoke anyone chafed me to no end, even if only as a metaphor.

  Blog text (28)

• The key to reducing material flows is to abandon frontier economics, which yokes economic activity to material use.

  Academic text (1999)

• God does not want His children to be yoked together with unbelievers or with anything that is unclean.

  Blog text (19)

• The occurrence of each forceful or aggressive behavior was then yoked to an appropriate response by the woman.

  Academic text (2002)

• She has got a mom who's failing, she's sensing time is passing by, and she's starting to wonder if she's unequally yoked.

  God's Not Dead (2014)

• The farmer decided to yoke the oxen together to plow the field more efficiently.

Synonyms

T

to tie

vsto yoke

923 1.0

To fasten things together by making a knot with string or rope

can be used figuratively as well as literally to link things

A

to attach

vsto yoke

459 2.5

To join or fasten one thing to another so they stay together

links items or people broadly not only physical fastening

B

to bind

vsto yoke

• Specialized

131 3.9

To join two things closely so they stay together

joins things or people more generally including simple or figurative links

C

to chain

vsto yoke

130 2.3

To fasten things together using metal links

covers joining generally both literal and figurative not only metal linking

I

to interlock

vsto yoke

15 4.1

To join parts so they fit tightly and move together

describes general joining or linking not only tightly fixed fits

J

to joint

vsto yoke

1 5.3

To fasten two parts together so they form one piece

means linking or joining in a broad sense beyond specific seams

Antonyms

S

to separate

297 1.9

To break into parts or pieces

D

to detach

16 3.9

To take something off from what it is connected to

U

to unyoke

9.9

To take the wooden bar off an animal that pulls a plow or cart

How Connected

to yoke

6 7.0

to bind

132 3.2

to attach

459 2.5

to link

442 1.1

join

11 2.9

Surface Forms

Etymology