yield
/jiːld/ verb, noun
Forms yields yielding yielded yold yolden
- verb To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render. “This method generally yields better results.”
- verb To produce as return from an investment. “Historically, that security yields a high return.”
- verb (mathematics) To produce as a result. “Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.”
- verb (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law. “Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.”
- verb (obsolete) To give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- verb (transitive or intransitive) To give as demanded; to relinquish. “They refuse to yield to the enemy.”
- verb (transitive or intransitive, especially US) To give way so as to allow another to pass first. “Yield the right of way to pedestrians.”
- verb (intransitive) To give way under force; to succumb to a force. “I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield.”
- noun A product.
- noun (agriculture) Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land. “Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.”
- noun (forestry, fishery) The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
- noun (chemistry) The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
- noun (hydrology) The volume of water escaping from a spring.
- noun The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
- noun (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
- noun (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
Synonyms
furnish afford give forth submit capitulate may imply a compensation with an enemy to end all resistance because of loss of hope succumb because of helplessness and extreme weakness to the leader of an opposing force relent mercy defer reverence affection give way surrender control or possession of another cede output return issue take takings proceeds payoff fruit production give
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Etymology
From Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan (“to pay”), from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Doublet of geld.
The noun is from Middle English ȝeld (“tax, payment”), from Old English ġield (“payment”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld (“payment”), from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).
Cognate with Scots yield (“to yield”), North Frisian jilden (“to pay”), Saterland Frisian jäilde (“to be valid, matter, count, be worth”), West Frisian jilde (“to pay”), Low German gellen, Dutch gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), German gelten (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Danish gælde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Icelandic gjalda (“to pay, yield, give”), Norwegian Bokmål gjelde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Norwegian Nynorsk gjelde, gjelda (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Swedish gälda (“to pay”), gälla (“to apply, be regarded”).
The noun is cognate with West Frisian jild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), Low German and German Geld (“money”), Danish gæld (“debt”), Faroese and Icelandic gjald (“fee, payment”), Norn gild (“payment”), Norwegian gjeld (“debt”), and Swedish gäld (“debt”). See also geld.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.
- verb To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. "Vines yield nectar." Milton.
- verb To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
- verb To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
Etymology [OE. yelden, ýelden, ýilden, AS. gieldan, gildan, to pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be worth, gälda to pay, Goth. gildan in fragildan, usgildan. Cf. 1st Geld, Guild.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “yield”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details