to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
to produce or furnish (payment, profit, or interest): a trust fund that yields ten percent interest annually; That investment will yield a handsome return.
to give up, as to superior power or authority: They yielded the fort to the enemy.
to give up or surrender (oneself): He yielded himself to temptation.
to give up or over; relinquish or resign: to yield the floor to the senator from Ohio.
to give as due or required: to yield obedience to one's teachers.
to cause; give rise to: The play yielded only one good laugh.
verb (used without object)
to give a return, as for labor expended; produce; bear.
to surrender or submit, as to superior power: The rebels yielded after a week.
to give way to influence, entreaty, argument, or the like: Don't yield to their outrageous demands.
to give place or precedence (usually followed by to): to yield to another; Will the senator from New York yield?
to give way to force, pressure, etc., so as to move, bend, collapse, or the like: I've pushed and pushed, but this door will not yield.
noun
something yielded.
the quantity or amount yielded.
the act or process of yielding: the yield of plastic materials under stress.
Chemistry. the quantity of product formed by the interaction of two or more substances, generally expressed as a percentage of the quantity obtained to that theoretically obtainable.
the income produced by a financial investment, usually shown as a percentage of cost.
a measure of the destructive energy of a nuclear explosion, expressed in kilotons of the amount of TNT that would produce the same destruction.
Origin of yield
before 900; (v.) Middle English y(i)elden,Old English g(i)eldan to pay; cognate with German gelten to be worth, apply to; (noun) late Middle English, derivative of the v.
SYNONYMS FOR yield
1 furnish, supply, render, bear.
3 abandon, abdicate, waive, forgo.
6 render.
10 give in, comply, bow.
13 fruit.
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ANTONYMS FOR yield
4 resist.
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synonym study for yield
3. Yield,submit,surrender mean to give way or give up to someone or something. To yield is to concede under some degree of pressure, but not necessarily to surrender totally: to yield ground to an enemy. To submit is to give up more completely to authority, superior force, etc., and to cease opposition, although usually with reluctance: to submit to control. To surrender is to give up complete possession of, relinquish, and cease claim to: to surrender a fortress, one's freedom, rights.13. See crop.
OTHER WORDS FROM yield
yielder,nounoutyield,verb (used with object)un·der·yield,nounun·der·yield,verb (used without object)
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He said that only deep and real sympathy for both sides in this conflict would ever yield anything of value.
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And I'm well pleased on my own account, for my father and mother are beginning to yield.
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She had forgotten even what she wanted from him, what she expected the coveted moment to yield her.
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British Dictionary definitions for yield
yield
/ (jiːld) /
verb
to give forth or supply (a product, result, etc), esp by cultivation, labour, etc; produce or bear
(tr)to furnish as a returnthe shares yielded three per cent
(tr often foll by up) to surrender or relinquish, esp as a result of force, persuasion, etc
(intr sometimes foll by to) to give way, submit, or surrender, as through force or persuasionshe yielded to his superior knowledge
(intr often foll by to) to agree; comply; assenthe eventually yielded to their request for money
(tr)to grant or allow; concedeto yield right of way
(tr)obsoleteto pay or repayGod yield thee!
noun
the result, product, or amount yielded
the profit or return, as from an investment or tax
the annual income provided by an investment, usually expressed as a percentage of its cost or of its current valuethe yield on these shares is 15 per cent at today's market value
the energy released by the explosion of a nuclear weapon expressed in terms of the amount of TNT necessary to produce the same energy
chemthe quantity of a specified product obtained in a reaction or series of reactions, usually expressed as a percentage of the quantity that is theoretically obtainable
Derived forms of yield
yieldable, adjectiveyielder, noun
Word Origin for yield
Old English gieldan; related to Old Frisian jelda, Old High German geltan, Old Norse gjalda, Gothic gildan