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Yield

//jiːld// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
A product. countable, uncountable
"In the case of countries more favoured by climate than Britain their earliest trade with the foreigner which history has to record is usually in the surface products of the earth—in corn or wine, in the yields of the olive-grove or the orchard."
2
production of a certain amount wordnet
3
The quantity of something produced.; Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land. countable, uncountable
"Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit."
4
an amount of a product wordnet
5
The quantity of something produced.; The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem. countable, uncountable

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6
the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property wordnet
7
The quantity of something produced.; The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction. countable, uncountable
8
the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time) wordnet
9
The quantity of something produced.; The volume of water escaping from a spring. countable, uncountable
10
The quantity of something produced.; The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent. countable, uncountable
11
The quantity of something produced.; Profit earned from an investment; return on investment. countable, uncountable
"A yield curve inversion happens when long-term bond yields fall below short-term bond yields. That rarely occurs. Before this month, that section of the yield curve hadn’t inverted since 2007, just before the Great Recession."
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The quantity of something produced.; The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond. countable, uncountable
"Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return."
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yield strength of a material. countable, material, uncountable
14
The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute. countable, uncountable
15
Payment; money; tribute. countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable

Verb

1
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
"This method generally yields better results."
2
end resistance, as under pressure or force wordnet
3
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.; To produce as return from an investment.
"Historically, that security yields a high return."
4
consent reluctantly wordnet
5
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.; To produce as a result.
"Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7."

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6
be willing to concede wordnet
7
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.; To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
"Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-."
8
cease opposition; stop fighting wordnet
9
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.; To give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite. obsolete
"God 'ild [yield] you, sir!"
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be flexible under stress of physical force wordnet
11
To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To give as demanded; to relinquish. intransitive, transitive
"They refuse to yield to the enemy."
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give or supply wordnet
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To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To give way so as to allow another to pass first. US, especially, intransitive, transitive
"Yield the right of way to pedestrians."
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cause to happen or be responsible for wordnet
15
To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To give way under force; to succumb to a force. intransitive
"I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield."
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move in order to make room for someone for something wordnet
17
To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; Of a running process, to give control back to the operating system so that other processes can be allowed to run. intransitive
"The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield."
18
bring in wordnet
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To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
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give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another wordnet
21
To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. rare
"I yield it just, said Adam, and submit."
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be the cause or source of wordnet
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be fatally overwhelmed wordnet
24
give in, as to influence or pressure wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Verb from Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan, from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Cognates Cognate with Scots yield (“to yield”), North Frisian jilden (“to pay”), Saterland Frisian jäilde (“to be valid; matter; count; be worth”), West Frisian jilde (“to pay”), Low German gellen, gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Dutch gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), German gelten (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Icelandic gjalda (“to pay, yield, give”), Danish gælde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Norwegian Bokmål gjelde. Noun from Middle English ȝeld, from Old English ġield, from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Cognates Compare West Frisian jild, Dutch geld, Low German and German Geld, Danish gæld, Swedish gäld, Icelandic gjald. See also geld.

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