yield

[ yeeld ]

/ yild /

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verb (used with object)

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.

verb (used without object)

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.

noun

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.

OTHER WORDS FOR yield

1 furnish, supply, render, bear.

3 abandon, abdicate, waive, forgo.

6 render.

10 give in, comply, bow.

13 fruit.

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OPPOSITES FOR yield

4 resist.

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Origin of yield

before 900; (v.) Middle English y(i)elden,Old English g(i)eldan to pay; cognate with German gelten to be worth, apply to; (noun) late Middle English, derivative of the v.

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3. Yield, submit, surrender mean to give way or give up to someone or something. To yield is to concede under some degree of pressure, but not necessarily to surrender totally: to yield ground to an enemy. To submit is to give up more completely to authority, superior force, etc., and to cease opposition, although usually with reluctance: to submit to control. To surrender is to give up complete possession of, relinquish, and cease claim to: to surrender a fortress, one's freedom, rights. 13. See crop.

OTHER WORDS FROM yield

yielder, nounoutyield, verb (used with object)un·der·yield, nounun·der·yield, verb (used without object)

un·yield·ed, adjective

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How to use yield in a sentence

In tests comparing urine, synthetic fertilizer, and no-fertilizer controls, they’ve found no difference in yields from hay fields fertilized with pee and conventional fertilizer.
Your pee could be the golden ticket to a greener world|Ula Chrobak|November 19, 2020|Popular-Science
I worry about the thousands of species dying off, and the millions of humans whose lives will be upended by changing weather patterns, lower crop yields, and political shifts.
Are We Wired to Be Outside? - Issue 92: Frontiers|Grigori Guitchounts|November 11, 2020|Nautilus
The recent rotation, which saw bond yields rising and value outperforming along with EM, could be halted for now.
Traders brace for a choppy day as the bet on big fiscal stimulus unravels|Lee Clifford|November 4, 2020|Fortune
There’ll be yield when there’s yield, and if there’s not much, there’s not much.
Jiko raises $40 million to become a most unusual challenger bank|rhhackettfortune|October 29, 2020|Fortune

The value of bonds is falling because yields keep rising on higher inflation expectations.
Wall Street still prefers bonds|Dion Rabouin|October 22, 2020|Axios
Kasta had at last had yielded its dead, but not the answers to its riddles.
Is This Alexander the Great’s Tomb—or His Wife’s?|James Romm|December 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But these dramatic increases in spending and teachers have not yielded a notable change in overall student outcomes.
How a GOP Senate Can Help the Poor|Veronique de Rugy|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The turn-of-the-century stretch that yielded The Rainbow Children and N.E.W.S. is particularly easy to ignore.
Prince Returns From the Wilderness and, Thankfully, Is as Restless as Ever|Keith Phipps|October 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Prior Ebola outbreaks in Africa, specifically in Uganda in 2000, have yielded similar reactions among afflicted communities.
Kissing the Corpses in Ebola Country|Abby Haglage|August 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
However, two of the samples—one from Ladakh, India and one from Bhutan—yielded a more interesting result.
Sorry Bigfoot Truthers: Yetis Aren’t Real|Elizabeth Picciuto|July 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Impressed by the lugubrious scene, Aguinaldo yielded, and the next day peace negotiations were opened.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Strange to say, the silken cord yielded to the first pull, as if nothing had been wrong with it at all!
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
In 1884 she once more yielded to the attraction that Paris had for her, and there made a great advance in her painting.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
He drew her back to him, and she yielded and settled closely in the curve of his arm, and he told her the story.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
We—or rather Raglin and one or two others—jawed for an hour; but the wretches never yielded an inch.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton

British Dictionary definitions for yield

yield

/ (jiːld) /

verb

to give forth or supply (a product, result, etc), esp by cultivation, labour, etc; produce or bear

(tr) to furnish as a returnthe 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 persuasionshe yielded to his superior knowledge

(intr often foll by to) to agree; comply; assenthe eventually yielded to their request for money

(tr) to grant or allow; concedeto yield right of way

(tr) obsolete to pay or repayGod yield thee!

noun

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 valuethe 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

Derived forms of yield

yieldable, adjectiveyielder, noun

Word Origin for yield

Old English gieldan; related to Old Frisian jelda, Old High German geltan, Old Norse gjalda, Gothic gildan

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Cultural definitions for yield

yield

The income from a fixed-income security as a percentage of its market price. For example, if the market price of a bond declines, its yield rises.

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