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/jiːld/
Verb
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
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This method generally yields better results.
The new variety of potatoes yields 20% more.
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The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
[…] We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never / Yields us kind answer.
Vines yield nectar.
Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed.
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render. To produce as return from an investment.
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Historically, that security yields a high return.
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render. To produce as a result.
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Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render. To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
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Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render. To give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
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God 'ild [yield] you, sir!
Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, / And the gods yield you for 't.
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God yield thee, and God thank ye.
Heaven yield her for it, but in me put force / To weary her ears with one continuous prayer, / Until she let me fly discaged to sweep / In ever-highering eagle-circles up / To the great Sun of Glory, […]
To give up; to surrender or capitulate. To give as demanded; to relinquish.
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They refuse to yield to the enemy.
Eventually she stopped arguing and yielded the point.
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Won with thy words, & conquered with thy lookes, / I yeeld my ſelfe, my men & horſe to thee: / To be partaker of thy good or ill, / As long as life maintaines Theridimas.
I'll make him yield the crown.
Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.
To give up; to surrender or capitulate. To give way so as to allow another to pass first.
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Yield the right of way to pedestrians.
It is not clear from the road markings who is supposed to yield at the junction.
To give up; to surrender or capitulate. To give way under force; to succumb to a force.
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I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield.
One equal temper of heroic hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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For though my nature rarely yields To that vague fear implied in death; Nor shudders at the gulfs beneath, The howlings from forgotten fields; […]
He turned the handle as he spoke, but the door did not yield. We threw ourselves against it. With a crash it burst open, and we almost fell headlong into the room.
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.
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The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield.
To give up; to surrender or capitulate. To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
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To give up; to surrender or capitulate. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
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I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.
Noun
A product.
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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 orchard.
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.
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Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.
The quantity of something produced. The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
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The quantity of something produced. The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
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The quantity of something produced. The volume of water escaping from a spring.
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The quantity of something produced. The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
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The quantity of something produced. Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
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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.
The quantity of something produced. The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
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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 are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
yield strength of a material.
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The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
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Payment; money; tribute.
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Noun
production of a certain amount
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the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
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the average return was about 5%
an amount of a product
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the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
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production was up in the second quarter
Verb
be the cause or source of
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He gave me a lot of trouble
Our meeting afforded much interesting information
end resistance, as under pressure or force
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The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram
give or supply
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The cow brings in 5 liters of milk
This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn
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The estate renders some revenue for the family
give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
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give in, as to influence or pressure
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move in order to make room for someone for something
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The park gave way to a supermarket
‘Move over,’ he told the crowd
cause to happen or be responsible for
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His two singles gave the team the victory
be willing to concede
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I grant you this much
be fatally overwhelmed
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bring in
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interest-bearing accounts
How much does this savings certificate pay annually?
be flexible under stress of physical force
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This material doesn't give
cease opposition; stop fighting
consent reluctantly