(used to express affirmation or assent or to mark the addition of something emphasizing and amplifying a previous statement):
Do you want that? Yes, I do.
2.
(used to express an emphatic contradiction of a previously negative statement or command):
Don't do that! Oh, yes I will!
3.
(used, usually interrogatively, to express hesitation, uncertainty, curiosity, etc.):
“Yes?” he said as he opened the door. That was a marvelous show! Yes?
4.
(used to express polite or minimal interest or attention.)
noun, plural yeses.
5.
an affirmative reply.
verb (used with object), yessed, yessing.
6.
to give an affirmative reply to; give assent or approval to.
interjection
7.
(used as a strong expression of joy, pleasure, or approval.)
Origin
before 900;Middle Englishyes, yis,Old Englishgēse (adv. and noun), probably equivalent to gēayea + sī be it (present subjunctive singular of bēon to be)
Examples from the web for yes
To show you as one-sided, incapable of unbiased thought, yes.
Millions of animals are on the streets and yes they spread diseases.
To show you as a narrow minded ideologue without independent thought, yes.
People tend to say that the answer is obviously yes.
But, if something is green and incredibly stylish, then yes.
yes, that means that some of the things below won't be completely true.
yes, they are depriving students of all sorts of important extra-curricular activities.
yes, the graduation rates at two-year for-profit colleges exceed those at two-year public colleges.
yes, profs usually know when their students have crushes on them.
If yes, then all he needs to do is indicate what changes are to be made, then sign on the bottom line.
British Dictionary definitions for yes
yes
/jɛs/
sentence substitute
1.
used to express acknowledgment, affirmation, consent, agreement, or approval or to answer when one is addressed
2.
used, often with interrogative intonation, to signal someone to speak or keep speaking, enter a room, or do something
Old English gise, gese "so be it!," probably from gea, ge "so" (see yea) + si "be it!," third person imperative of beon "to be" (see be). Originally stronger than simple yea. Used in Shakespeare mainly as an answer to negative questions. Yes-man is first recorded 1912, American English.