yield
to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
to produce or furnish (payment, profit, or interest): a trust fund that yields ten percent interest annually; That investment will yield a handsome return.
to give up, as to superior power or authority: They yielded the fort to the enemy.
to give up or surrender (oneself): He yielded himself to temptation.
to give up or over; relinquish or resign: to yield the floor to the senator from Ohio.
to give as due or required: to yield obedience to one's teachers.
to cause; give rise to: The play yielded only one good laugh.
to give a return, as for labor expended; produce; bear.
to surrender or submit, as to superior power: The rebels yielded after a week.
to give way to influence, entreaty, argument, or the like: Don't yield to their outrageous demands.
to give place or precedence (usually followed by to): to yield to another; Will the senator from New York yield?
to give way to force, pressure, etc., so as to move, bend, collapse, or the like: I've pushed and pushed, but this door will not yield.
something yielded.
the quantity or amount yielded.
the act or process of yielding: the yield of plastic materials under stress.
Chemistry. the quantity of product formed by the interaction of two or more substances, generally expressed as a percentage of the quantity obtained to that theoretically obtainable.
the income produced by a financial investment, usually shown as a percentage of cost.
a measure of the destructive energy of a nuclear explosion, expressed in kilotons of the amount of TNT that would produce the same destruction.
Origin of yield
1synonym study For yield
Other words for yield
Opposites for yield
Other words from yield
- yielder, noun
- outyield, verb (used with object)
- un·der·yield, noun
- un·der·yield, verb (used without object)
- un·yield·ed, adjective
Words Nearby yield
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How to use yield in a sentence
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Content marketing fails: How to analyze and improve | Michael Doer | August 27, 2020 | Search Engine WatchAccording to BofA, the index delivers a yield that’s over 3x the 10-year Treasury— the “highest since the ’50s,” they note.
Big Tech is driving the markets rally. There are fresh doubts that trade will hold up | Bernhard Warner | August 26, 2020 | FortuneThis time around, more players from the traditional finance world are participating, while two new buzzwords—DeFi and yield farming— are driving a new surge of investment.
We have been able to increase yield by segmenting audiences in smarter ways and understanding price sensitivity among buyers.
‘It’s less dire than it seemed to be’: How The Wall Street Journal’s digital ads business has weathered the downturn | Lucinda Southern | August 20, 2020 | DigidayAccording to Desert Control’s website, a field test near Abu Dhabi yielded cauliflowers and carrots that were 108 percent bigger than those in the control area, and field tests in Egypt documented a four-fold increase in the yield of wheat.
A Norwegian Startup Is Turning Dry Deserts Into Fertile Cropland | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | August 19, 2020 | Singularity Hub
This is a largely untapped opportunity that will yield positive returns both in human and financial terms.
But the technology, while powerful, is cumbersome and takes anywhere from 12 hours to four days to yield a result.
This New Ebola Test Is As Easy As a Pregnancy Test, So Why Aren’t We Using It? | Abby Haglage | October 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMaybe, just maybe, this approach will yield common ground that can be the foundation to build a bridge to peace.
How Jon Stewart Made It Okay to Care About Palestinian Suffering | Dean Obeidallah | July 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDespite its new policies, a Google representative assured me that search results will still yield organic results.
Too Hot for Google: Why The Internet Giant Is Scared of Porn | Aurora Snow | July 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe said that only deep and real sympathy for both sides in this conflict would ever yield anything of value.
Then the enemy's howitzers and field guns had it all their own way, forcing attack to yield a lot of ground.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonYou fancied, perhaps, I would stand haggling with you all night, and yield at last to your obstinacy.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le FanuFor ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousThey are raised on the strictest scientific principles and yield me the greater part of my income.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonFew whose estates might yield them ten thousand a year are content with nine thousand.
Glances at Europe | Horace Greeley
British Dictionary definitions for yield
/ (jiːld) /
to give forth or supply (a product, result, etc), esp by cultivation, labour, etc; produce or bear
(tr) to furnish as a return: the shares yielded three per cent
(tr often foll by up) to surrender or relinquish, esp as a result of force, persuasion, etc
(intr sometimes foll by to) to give way, submit, or surrender, as through force or persuasion: she yielded to his superior knowledge
(intr often foll by to) to agree; comply; assent: he eventually yielded to their request for money
(tr) to grant or allow; concede: to yield right of way
(tr) obsolete to pay or repay: God yield thee!
the result, product, or amount yielded
the profit or return, as from an investment or tax
the annual income provided by an investment, usually expressed as a percentage of its cost or of its current value: the yield on these shares is 15 per cent at today's market value
the energy released by the explosion of a nuclear weapon expressed in terms of the amount of TNT necessary to produce the same energy
chem the quantity of a specified product obtained in a reaction or series of reactions, usually expressed as a percentage of the quantity that is theoretically obtainable
Origin of yield
1Derived forms of yield
- yieldable, adjective
- yielder, noun
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Cultural definitions for yield
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