yield
/jiːld/ verb B2- 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.
- To produce as return from an investment. · Historically, that security yields a high return.
- To produce as a result. · Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
- To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law. · Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.
- To give as demanded; to relinquish. · They refuse to yield to the enemy.· Eventually she stopped arguing and yielded the point.
- To give way so as to allow another to pass first. · 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 way under force; to succumb to a force. · I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield.
- 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. · The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield.
He/she/it yields · Past yielded · Past participle yielded · -ing form yielding
Verb forms
- Base form
- yield
- He/she/it
- yields
- Past
- yielded
- Past participle
- yielded
- -ing form
- yielding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Yielding up her last breath, she gasped forth this lament: “O wretched creature that I am!
Uneasiness now yielded to the most extreme dread on the part of those present.
The Sheep, much against his will, carried her backward and forward for a long time, and at last said, “If you had treated a dog in this way, you would have had your deserts from his sharp teeth.” To this the Crow replied, “I despise the weak and yield to the strong.
Then she yielded to the inevitable and said tartly:
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