Glossary
Terms starting with Y
17 definitions.
- Yahoo
- portal located at www.yahoo.com
- Yakitori
- Bite-sized pieces of chicken skewered and grilled, Japanese-style. In Japan, all parts of the chicken, including the head, skin and gizzards, would be cooked, but in the UK, it's usually just pieces of breast meat. The meat is threaded on to bamboo skewers…
- Yam
- The yam is a staple food in many tropical countries, particularly the Caribbean. Yams have brown tough skins and the flesh can vary in colour - anything from white to yellow to purple - depending on the variety. Small yams can be cooked in their skins, but…
- Yea and Nay
- At common law, a yea or nay was understood to be an unverified admission or denial as contained in some document or record.
- Year and a Day
- At common law, a year and a day was the period of time fixed for the claiming of rights. Failure to claim within that period could extinguish it. This is like today's statute of limitation.
- Year and a Day Rule
- At common law in criminal cases, it was understood that if death occurred more than one year and a day after the assault happened, no murder or unlawful killing charge could be brought based on the assault.
- Year to Date
- Year to date, or YTD, is an expression meant to measure an account from the beginning of the calendar year to the date in question. For example, your wages, year to date, is a useful number.
- Yearling
- A horse’s age between New Year’s Day after being foaled and the following January 1.
- Yeast
- A microscopic living fungus that multiplies rapidly in suitable conditions. It's an essential ingredient for bread-making and brewing. When mixed with warm water, sugar and flour, yeast produces carbon dioxide, which causes dough to rise. There are three…
- Yellow Dog Contract
- A yellow dog contract is no longer a legal practice. Employers would in the past sometimes require new employees and current employees to sign an agreement that they would not join a union. The agreement was a condition of employment or continued employment…
- Yield
- To yield means to surrender, or give up, or to relinquish. Alternatively, in business matters, an increase in the value of an investment is said to be its yield.
- YIELD
- The amount of usable product a given item delivers. For example, a 16-ounce cut of meat may produce only 13 ounces of usable product after the fat has been trimmed.
- YMMV
- Your Mileage May Vary
- YMODEM
- Popular file transfer protocol. It is faster than XMODEM.
- Yoghurt
- Yogurt is made from fermented milk and has a great many uses. It can be consumed as a drink (such as the Indian lassi) or eaten as a kind of relish (such as the Indian raita, a cooling mixture of yoghurt and cucumber), or made into a kind of cheese (such as…
- Your Honor
- Your Honor is a term of respect to which a judge is entitled.
- Youthful Offender
- A youthful offender is a juvenile that has been accused of or that has been convicted of some criminal behavior.