/jiːld/
- To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
“This method generally yields better results.”
“The new variety of potatoes yields 20% more.”
“The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.”
- To produce as return from an investment.
“Historically, that security yields a high return.”
- To produce as a result.
“Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.”
- To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
“Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.”
- obsoleteTo give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
“God 'ild [yield] you, sir!”
“Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, / And the gods yield you for 't.”
“God yield thee, and God thank ye.”
- intransitive, transitiveTo give as demanded; to relinquish.
“They refuse to yield to the enemy.”
“Eventually she stopped arguing and yielded the point.”
“Won with thy words, & conquered with thy lookes, / I yeeld my ſelfe, my men & horſe to thee: / To be partaker of thy good or ill, / As long as life maintaines Theridimas.”
- US, especially, intransitive, transitiveTo give way so as to allow another to pass first.
“Yield the right of way to pedestrians.”
“It is not clear from the road markings who is supposed to yield at the junction.”
- intransitiveTo give way under force; to succumb to a force.
“I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield.”
“One equal temper of heroic hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
“For though my nature rarely yields
To that vague fear implied in death;
Nor shudders at the gulfs beneath,
The howlings from forgotten fields; […]”
- intransitiveOf a running process, to give control back to the operating system so that other processes can be allowed to run.
“The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield.”
- To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- rareTo admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
“I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.”
- countable, uncountableA product.
“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 t”
- countable, uncountableMeasurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
“Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.”
- countable, uncountableThe harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
- countable, uncountableThe amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
- countable, uncountableThe volume of water escaping from a spring.
- countable, uncountableThe explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
- countable, uncountableProfit earned from an investment; return on investment.
“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 be”
“When bond yields rise slowly over time, it’s not a problem for pensions deploying LDI strategies, and actually helps their finances.”
- countable, uncountableThe current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
“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 suff”
- countable, material, uncountableyield strength of a material.
- countable, uncountableThe situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
- countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountablePayment; money; tribute.
Formsyields(present, singular, third-person) · yielding(participle, present) · yielded(past) · yold(obsolete, past) · yielded(participle, past) · yold(obsolete, participle, past) · yolden(obsolete, participle, past) · yields(plural)
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