yield

1. 1

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

   • This method generally yields better results.
   • The new variety of potatoes yields 20% more.
2. 2

   To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.; To produce as return from an investment.

   • Historically, that security yields a high return.
3. 3

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

   • Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
4. 4

   To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.; To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.

   • Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.
5. 5

   To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.; To give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.obsolete

   • God 'ild [yield] you, sir!
   • Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, / And the gods yield you for 't.
6. 6

   To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To give as demanded; to relinquish.intransitivetransitive

   • They refuse to yield to the enemy.
   • Eventually she stopped arguing and yielded the point.
7. 7

   To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To give way so as to allow another to pass first.USespeciallyintransitive

   • Yield the right of way to pedestrians.
   • It is not clear from the road markings who is supposed to yield at the junction.
8. 8

   To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To give way under force; to succumb to a force.intransitive

   • I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield.
9. 9

   To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; Of a running thread or process: to give control back to the parent program or operating system so that other threads or processes can be allowed to run.intransitive

   • The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield.
10. 10

    To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.

syn. submit · capitulate · may imply a compensation with an enemy · to end all resistance because of loss of · succumb · because of helplessness and extreme weak · to the leader of an opposing force · relent · mercy · defer · reverence · affection

1. 1

   A product.countableuncountable

   • In the case of countries more favoured by climate than Britain their earliest trade with the foreigner which history has to record is usually in the surface products of the earth—in corn or wine, in the yields of the olive-grove or the orch
2. 2

   The quantity of something produced.; Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.countableuncountable

   • Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.
3. 3

   The quantity of something produced.; The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.countableuncountable

4. 4

   The quantity of something produced.; The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.countableuncountable

5. 5

   The quantity of something produced.; The volume of water escaping from a spring.countableuncountable

6. 6

   The quantity of something produced.; The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.countableuncountable

7. 7

   The quantity of something produced.; Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.countableuncountable

   • A yield curve inversion happens when long-term bond yields fall below short-term bond yields. That rarely occurs. Before this month, that section of the yield curve hadn’t inverted since 2007, just before the Great Recession.
   • When bond yields rise slowly over time, it’s not a problem for pensions deploying LDI strategies, and actually helps their finances.
8. 8

   The quantity of something produced.; The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.countableuncountable

   • Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and
9. 9

   yield strength of a material.countablematerialuncountable

10. 10

    The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.countableuncountable

syn. crop · fruits · gain · harvest · produce · return