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Yield   /jild/   Listen
Yield

noun
1.
Production of a certain amount.  Synonym: output.
2.
The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property.  Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings.
3.
An amount of a product.  Synonym: fruit.
4.
The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time).  Synonyms: output, production.
verb
(past & past part. yielded; obs. past part. yold; pres. part. yielding)
1.
Be the cause or source of.  Synonyms: afford, give.  "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"
2.
End resistance, as under pressure or force.  Synonym: give way.
3.
Give or supply.  Synonyms: generate, give, render, return.  "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn" , "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
4.
Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another.  Synonyms: cede, concede, grant.
5.
Give in, as to influence or pressure.  Synonyms: relent, soften.
6.
Move in order to make room for someone for something.  Synonyms: ease up, give, give way, move over.  "'Move over,' he told the crowd"
7.
Cause to happen or be responsible for.  Synonym: give.
8.
Be willing to concede.  Synonyms: concede, grant.
9.
Be fatally overwhelmed.  Synonym: succumb.
10.
Bring in.  Synonyms: bear, pay.  "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?"
11.
Be flexible under stress of physical force.  Synonym: give.
12.
Cease opposition; stop fighting.
13.
Consent reluctantly.  Synonyms: buckle under, give in, knuckle under, succumb.



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"Yield" Quotes from Famous Books



... their caste or customs. He told the Native officers to do all in their power to allay the men's unfounded fears, and called upon them to prove themselves worthy of the high character they had hitherto maintained; he concluded by warning all ranks that the Government were determined not to yield to insubordination, which would be ...
— Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts
... fancy might incite him to follow? It is contrary to reason, but we see such instances every day. The passion of play is not artificial; it must have existed in certain minds from the beginning; at least some must have been so constituted that they yield at once to the attraction, and enter with avidity into a pursuit in which other men can never ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William - IV, Volume 1 (of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville
... this subject, those concessions from the PRIDE of PEDANTRY which that pride will never yield. We seem, therefore, to be destined, by the force of circumstances, to make slow or inconsiderable advances in civilization; and it remains for other nations, the bases of whose institutions are less entangled ...
— A Morning's Walk from London to Kew • Richard Phillips
... every yellow star, bold on its stalk as greenhouses can grow it, shamed all feebler yellows. Devoniensis flung its sprays down from the thatch. La France and Ulrich Brunner competed—silver rose against cherry rose—on either side of the porch. Yet the fragrance of all these roses had to yield to that of the Cottage flowers, mignonette, Sweet-William, lemon verbena, Brompton stocks— annuals, biennials, perennials, intermixed—that lined the border, with blue delphiniums and white Madonna lilies breaking into ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... as with fever, and the air hot with contending passions. The animosity, long smouldering between the two sections, was about to burst into the flame of civil war; all men were taking sides; the war of discussion on the floor of Congress was about to yield to the clash of bayonets and the roar of cannon ...
— A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee • John Esten Cooke


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