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yield
[ yeeld ]
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.
Antonyms: resist
- 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.
Synonyms: render
- 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.
Synonyms: fruit
- 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.
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 return
the shares yielded three per cent
- troften foll byup to surrender or relinquish, esp as a result of force, persuasion, etc
- intrsometimes foll byto to give way, submit, or surrender, as through force or persuasion
she yielded to his superior knowledge
- introften foll byto to agree; comply; assent
he eventually yielded to their request for money
- tr to grant or allow; concede
to yield right of way
- obsolete.tr to pay or repay
God 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 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
Derived Forms
- ˈyieldable, adjective
- ˈyielder, noun
Other Words From
- yielder noun
- outyield verb (used with object)
- under·yield noun
- under·yield verb (used without object)
- un·yielded adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of yield1
Word History and Origins
Origin of yield1
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Example Sentences
The team at Aardman knows how to manipulate our expectations for maximum humor, so much that seeing Feathers McGraw swiveling on a chair holding a new pet can yield laugh-out-loud results.
The world number three thought it was "a terrible question", but it did yield an interesting response.
Staying present with the sensations of any of the innumerable burdens that are thrust upon us can yield an experience of transcendence — or, at the very least, an acceptance of what inexorably exists.
But at least some credit goes to the Labor Federation and its speak-no-partisanship strategy, which helped yield a significant number of crossover votes in a several closely fought congressional contests.
The haul could have produced 20 million doses of fentanyl and yielded more than $400 million for organized crime, she told reporters.
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