yield

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English

Etymology

Verb from Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan, from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).

Noun from Middle English ȝeld, from Old English ġield, from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jiːld/
• Rhymes: -iːld

Verb

yield (third-person singular simple present yields, present participle yielding, simple past yielded or (obsolete) yold, past participle yielded or (obsolete) yolden)

1. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

   Synonyms: furnish, afford, give forth

   1. To produce as return from an investment.

   2. (mathematics) To produce as a result.

   3. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.

   4. (obsolete) To give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
2. To give up; to surrender or capitulate.
   1. (transitive or intransitive) To give as demanded; to relinquish.
   2. (transitive or intransitive, especially US) To give way so as to allow another to pass first.

   3. (intransitive) To give way under force; to succumb to a force.
   4. (computing, intransitive) Of a running process, to give control back to the operating system so that other processes can be allowed to run.

   5. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
   6. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

Synonyms

• submit - To fully surrender
• capitulate - To end all resistance, may imply a compensation with an enemy or to end all resistance because of loss of hope
• succumb - To fully surrender, because of helplessness and extreme weakness, to the leader of an opposing force
• relent - A yielding because of pity or mercy
• defer - A voluntary submitting out of respect, reverence or affection
• give way - To succumb to persistent persuasion.
• surrender - To give up into the power, control, or possession of another
• cede - To give up, give way, give away; to bow.
• give up - To surrender
• produce - To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.
• bear - To produce something, such as fruit or crops
• supply - To provide (something), to make (something) available for use
• give in
• to trade away - to let others get hold of a property or right of yours.

Translations

Noun

yield (countable and uncountable, plural yields)

1. A product.
2. The quantity of something produced.
   1. (agriculture) Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.

   2. (forestry, fishery) The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
   3. (chemistry) The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
   4. (hydrology) The volume of water escaping from a spring.
   6. The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
   7. (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
   8. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
3. (engineering, material science) yield strength of a material.
4. (programming) The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
5. (obsolete or dialectal) Payment; money; tribute.

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See also

References

• “yield”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Leidy, ylide

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English yield.

Noun

yield f or m (plural yields)

1. (finance) yield (the current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond)

Usage notes

• As a foreign word, this term is traditionally stylized in italics.

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