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YIELD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Production of a certain amountplay

Synonyms:

output; yield

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("yield" is a kind of...):

production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yield"):

crop; harvest (the yield from plants in a single growing season)

Derivation:

yield (give or supply)

yield (bring in)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An amount of a productplay

Synonyms:

fruit; yield

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("yield" is a kind of...):

product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)

Derivation:

yield (give or supply)

yield (bring in)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other propertyplay

Example:

the average return was about 5%

Synonyms:

issue; payoff; proceeds; return; take; takings; yield

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("yield" is a kind of...):

income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yield"):

economic rent; rent (the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions)

payback (financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment))

Derivation:

yield (give or supply)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)play

Example:

production was up in the second quarter

Synonyms:

output; production; yield

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("yield" is a kind of...):

indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yield"):

pick; picking (the quantity of a crop that is harvested)

Derivation:

yield (give or supply)

yield (bring in)

 II. (verb) 

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they yield  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it yields  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: yielded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: yielded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: yielding  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

End resistance, as under pressure or forceplay

Example:

The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram

Synonyms:

give way; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Consent reluctantlyplay

Synonyms:

buckle under; give in; knuckle under; succumb; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):

accept; consent; go for (give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "yield"):

accede; bow; defer; give in; submit (yield to another's wish or opinion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to somebody

Derivation:

yielding (a verbal act of admitting defeat)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be willing to concedeplay

Example:

I grant you this much

Synonyms:

concede; grant; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):

agree; concord; concur; hold (be in accord; be in agreement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "yield"):

forgive (stop blaming or grant forgiveness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to somebody

Derivation:

yielding (the act of conceding or yielding)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cease opposition; stop fightingplay

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "yield"):

give up; surrender (give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another)

fall (be captured)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to somebody

Derivation:

yielder (a person who yields or surrenders)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Be flexible under stress of physical forceplay

Example:

This material doesn't give

Synonyms:

give; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):

stretch (become longer by being stretched and pulled)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 6

Meaning:

Give or supplyplay

Example:

The estate renders some revenue for the family

Synonyms:

generate; give; render; return; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):

create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Verb group:

establish; give (bring about)

give; yield (cause to happen or be responsible for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

yield (production of a certain amount)

yield (an amount of a product)

yield (the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property)

yield (the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time))

Sense 7

Meaning:

Cause to happen or be responsible forplay

Example:

His two singles gave the team the victory

Synonyms:

give; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Verb group:

generate; give; render; return; yield (give or supply)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 8

Meaning:

Move in order to make room for someone for somethingplay

Example:

'Move over,' he told the crowd

Synonyms:

ease up; give; give way; move over; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Verb group:

abandon; give up (stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

These cars won't yield


Sense 9

Meaning:

Bring inplay

Example:

How much does this savings certificate pay annually?

Synonyms:

bear; pay; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):

bring in; clear; earn; gain; make; pull in; realise; realize; take in (earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages)

Domain category:

investment; investment funds (money that is invested with an expectation of profit)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "yield"):

clear; net (yield as a net profit)

pay off (yield a profit or result)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

yield (production of a certain amount)

yield (an amount of a product)

yield (the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time))

Sense 10

Meaning:

Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of anotherplay

Synonyms:

cede; concede; grant; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 11

Meaning:

Be the cause or source ofplay

Example:

Our meeting afforded much interesting information

Synonyms:

afford; give; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Verb group:

give (cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "yield"):

open; open up (make available)

allow; allow for; leave; provide (make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 12

Meaning:

Be fatally overwhelmedplay

Synonyms:

succumb; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 13

Meaning:

Give in, as to influence or pressureplay

Synonyms:

relent; soften; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "yield"):

truckle (yield to out of weakness)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue yield


Antonym:

stand (hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Bacterial chloramphenicol-O-acetyltransferase (cat) gene encodes chloramphenicol-O-acetyltransferase protein, an enzyme that acetylates the antiobiotic chloramphenicol to yield chloramphenicol 3-acetate.

(CAT Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

One thing more, I had to do, before yielding myself to the shock of these emotions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These include the production of lipid second messengers by phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, and the PLC-dependent hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate to yield diacylglycerol and 1,4,5-inositoltrisphosphate (IP3).

(BCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

She had at first yielded to our entreaties, but when she heard that the life of her favourite was menaced, she could no longer control her anxiety.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They mapped a new, more accurate dataset, and compared the result to that yielded by more common, lower-sensitivity methods.

(Study reveals new patterns of key ocean nutrient, National Science Foundation)

Dreadful! I felt how right you were the whole time, but was too anxious for securing any thing to like to yield.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The king was at first very unwilling to let him go, but at last yielded to his wish.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The various bedrooms and sitting-rooms had yielded nothing to a careful search.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. Palmer joined their entreaties, all seemed equally anxious to avoid a family party; and the young ladies were obliged to yield.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)




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