English Online Dictionary. What means yield? What does yield mean?
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)
- To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
- Synonyms: furnish, afford, give forth
- To produce as return from an investment.
- (mathematics) To produce as a result.
- (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- (obsolete) To give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- To give up; to surrender or capitulate.
- (transitive or intransitive) To give as demanded; to relinquish.
- (transitive or intransitive, especially US) To give way so as to allow another to pass first.
- (intransitive) To give way under force; to succumb to a force.
- (computing, intransitive) Of a running process, to give control back to the operating system so that other processes can be allowed to run.
- (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- (transitive or intransitive) To give as demanded; to relinquish.
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)
- A product.
- The quantity of something produced.
- (agriculture) Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
- (forestry, fishery) The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
- (chemistry) The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
- (hydrology) The volume of water escaping from a spring.
- The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
- (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
- (agriculture) Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
- (engineering, material science) yield strength of a material.
- (programming) The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
- (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
Synonyms
Derived terms
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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)
- (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.