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Definition of 'yield'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) yield
to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation:
to yield 40 bushels to the acre.

2.  yield
to produce or furnish (profit).

3.  yield
to give up, as to superior power or authority:
yielded the fort to the enemy.

4.  yield
to relinquish:
to yield the floor to the senator from Ohio.

5.  yield
to give as due or required:
to yield obedience.

6. (v.i.) yield
to give a return, as for labor expended; produce or bear.

7.  yield
to surrender to superior power.

8.  yield
to give way to influence, entreaty, or the like:
to yield to outrageous demands.

9.  yield
to give place or precedence (usu. fol. by to):
to yield to the next speaker.

10.  yield
to give way to force, pressure, etc.; collapse.

11. (n.) yield
the act of yielding or producing.

12.  yield
the quantity or amount yielded.

13.  yield
the income produced by a financial investment, usu. shown as a percentage of cost.

14.  yield
Chem. 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.

15.  yield
something given up or relinquished.

16.  yield
a measure of the destructive energy of a nuclear explosion, expressed in kilotons of the amount of TNT that would produce the same destruction.

Etymology: (bef. 900; OE g(i)eldan to pay, c. OS geldan, OHG geltan, ON gjalda, to restore, pay, Go fragildan to repay; akin to geld², wergild)

Definition of 'yield'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) output, yield
production of a certain amount

2. (noun) return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff
the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
"the average return was about 5%"

3. (noun) yield, fruit
an amount of a product

4. (verb) output, yield, production
the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
"production was up in the second quarter"

5. (verb) yield, give, afford
be the cause or source of
"He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"

6. (verb) give way, yield
end resistance, as under pressure or force
"The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"

7. (verb) render, yield, return, give, generate
give or supply
"The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"

8. (verb) concede, yield, cede, grant
give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

9. (verb) yield, relent, soften
give in, as to influence or pressure

10. (verb) move over, give way, give, ease up, yield
move in order to make room for someone for something
"The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd"

11. (verb) give, yield
cause to happen or be responsible for
"His two singles gave the team the victory"

12. (verb) concede, yield, grant
be willing to concede
"I grant you this much"

13. (verb) succumb, yield
be fatally overwhelmed

14. (verb) yield, pay, bear
bring in
"interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?"

15. (verb) give, yield
be flexible under stress of physical force
"This material doesn't give"

16. (verb) yield
cease opposition; stop fighting

17. (verb) yield, give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under
consent reluctantly

Definition of 'yield'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) yield
to produce
an expensive election campaign that yielded disappointing results

2.  yield
to agree after resisting; = give in
His parents finally yielded and said he could go.; The government has been accused of yielding to pressure.

3.  yield
to allow a vehicle to go before you
Yield to cars coming from the right.

4.  yield
to give to sb else
to yield territory

Definition of 'yield'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) yield
amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation

2. (verb) yield
to give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent

3. (verb) yield
to furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth

4. (verb) yield
to give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc

5. (verb) yield
to admit to be true; to concede; to allow

6. (verb) yield
to permit; to grant; as, to yield passage

7. (verb) yield
to give a reward to; to bless

8. (verb) yield
to give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb

9. (verb) yield
to comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request

10. (verb) yield
to give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded

11. (verb) yield
to give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing

Translation of 'yield'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to give up; to surrender He yielded to the other man's arguments; He yielded all his possessions to the state.
Afrikaans: opgee, ingee	Arabic: يَخْضَع ، يَتَنازَل	Bulgarian: отстъпвам
Brazilian: render(-se)	Czech: ustoupit; přenechat	German: aufgeben, abtreten
Danish: give efter; overdrage	Greek: υποκύπτω, ενδίδω, παραδίδ	Spanish: ceder
Estonian: alistuma, loovutama	Farsi: تسلیم شدن؛ تسلیم کردن	Finnish: luovuttaa
French: céder	Hebrew: הֵנִיב, הֵפִיק, הִכְנִיס,	Hindi: समर्पित करना, समर्पण करना
Croatian: dati	Hungarian: enged; felad	Indonesian: menyerah
Icelandic: gefast upp (fyrir); láta	Italian: cedere	Japanese: 明け渡す
Korean: 굴복하다	Lithuanian: nusileisti, perduoti	Latvian: piekāpties; atdot
Malay: menyerah	Dutch: zwichten, afstaan	Norwegian: bøye av, gi etter, gi seg
Polish: ustąpić, oddać	Persian: تسلیم شدن؛ تسلیم کردن	Pashto: حاصل وركول (ميوه): ګټه ور
Portuguese: render(-se)	Romanian: a renunţa	Russian: уступать
Slovak: ustúpiť; prenechať	Slovenian: vdati se; odstopiti	Serbian: predati se
Swedish: ge vika,överlämna	Thai: ยอม	Turkish: vazgeçmek, bırakmak
Taiwanese: 放棄，繳出	Ukrainian: поступатися; здавати	Urdu: مان لینا
Vietnamese: đầu hàng	Chinese: 放弃，缴出
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