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verb (used with object)
1.
to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
2.
to produce or furnish (payment, profit, or interest): a trust fund that yields ten percent interest annually; That investment will yield a handsome return.
3.
to give up, as to superior power or authority: They yielded the fort to the enemy.
4.
to give up or surrender (oneself): He yielded himself to temptation.
5.
EXPANDto give up or over; relinquish or resign: to yield the floor to the senator from Ohio.
6.
to give as due or required: to yield obedience.
7.
COLLAPSEto cause; give rise to: The play yielded only one good laugh.
verb (used without object)
8.
to give a return, as for labor expended; produce; bear.
9.
to surrender or submit, as to superior power: The rebels yielded after a week.
10.
to give way to influence, entreaty, argument, or the like: Don't yield to their outrageous demands.
11.
to give place or precedence (usually followed by to): to yield to another; Will the senator from New York yield?
12.
to give way to force, pressure, etc., so as to move, bend, collapse, or the like.
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Yielded
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noun
13.
the act of yielding or producing.
14.
something yielded.
15.
the quantity or amount yielded.
16.
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.
17.
EXPANDthe income produced by a financial investment, usually shown as a percentage of cost.
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COLLAPSEa measure of the destructive energy of a nuclear explosion, expressed in kilotons of the amount of TNT that would produce the same destruction.
Origin:
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.
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.
Related forms
yield·er, noun
out·yield, verb (used with object)
un·der·yield, noun
un·der·yield, verb (used without object)
un·yield·ed, adjective
Synonyms
1. furnish, supply, render, bear. 3. abandon, abdicate, waive, forgo. 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. 6. render. 10. give in, comply, bow. 14. fruit. See crop.
1. furnish, supply, render, bear. 3. abandon, abdicate, waive, forgo. 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. 6. render. 10. give in, comply, bow. 14. fruit. See crop.
Antonyms
4. resist.
4. resist.
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Word Origin & History
yield
O.E. geldan (Anglian), gieldan (W.Saxon) "to pay" (class III strong verb; past tense geald, p.p. golden), from P.Gmc. *geldanan "pay" (cf. O.S. geldan "to be worth," O.N. gjaldo "to repay, return," M.Du. ghelden, Du. gelden "to cost, be worth, concern," O.H.G. geltan, Ger. gelten "to be worth," Goth.
EXPANDfra-gildan "to repay, requite"), perhaps from PIE *ghel-to- "I pay," found only in Balto-Slavic and Gmc., unless O.C.S. zledo, Lith. geliuoti are Gmc. loan-words. Sense developed in Eng. via use to translate L. reddere, Fr. rendre, and had expanded by c.1300 to "repay, return, render (service), produce, surrender." Related to M.L.G. and M.Du. gelt, Du. geld, Ger. Geld "money." Earliest Eng. sense survives in financial "yield from investments." The noun is O.E. gield "payment, sum of money;" extended sense of "production" (as of crops) is first attested c.1440. Yielding in sense of "giving way to physical force" is recorded from 1665.
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