yield

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Yield has two meanings that seem quite different: "an amount" or "to give way." The yield of the recipe was twelve brownies. To avoid being tripped, Mary was forced to yield to the children on her way to the brownie plate.

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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.

Noun
production of a certain amount

Noun
an amount of a product

Noun
the income arising from land or other property; "the average return was about 5%"

Noun
the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time); "production was up in the second quarter"

Verb
end resistance, especially under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"

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Verb
consent reluctantly

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be willing to concede; "I grant you this much"

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cease opposition; stop fighting

Verb
be flexible under stress of physical force; "This material doesn''t give"

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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"

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bring about; "His two singles gave the team the victory"

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move in order to make room for someone for something; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,'' he told the crowd"

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bring in; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?"

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give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

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be the cause or source of; "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"

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be fatally overwhelmed

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give in, as to influence or pressure


v. t.
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.

v. t.
To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

v. t.
To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.

v. t.
To give a reward to; to bless.

v. i.
To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.

v. i.
To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.

v. i.
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.

v. i.
To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.

n.
Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.


Yield

Yield , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yielded; obs. p. p. Yold ; p. pr. & vb. n. Yielding.] [OE. yelden, 'f4elden, 'f4ilden, AS. gieldan, gildan, to pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. g'84lla to be worth, g'84lda to pay, Goth. gildan in fragildan, usgildan. Cf. 1st Geld, Guild.] 1. 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.
To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength.
2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. "Vines yield nectar." Milton.
[He] makes milch kine yield blood.
The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
3. 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.
And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown.
Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.
4. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.
5. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage. 6. To give a reward to; to bless. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, And the gods yield you for 't.
God yield thee, and God thank ye.
To yield the breath, the ghost, ∨ the life, to die; to expire; -- often followed by up.
One calmly yields his willing breath.

Yield

Yield, v. i. 1. To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
He saw the fainting Grecians yield.
2. To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request. 3. 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.
Will ye relent, And yield to mercy while 't is offered you?
4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.
Nay tell me first, in what more happy fields The thistle springs, to which the lily yields?

Yield

Yield , n. Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation. "A goodly yield of fruit doth bring." Bacon.

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.

To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.

Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.

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Usage Examples

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

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