Sekirov Dictionary

yield

/jiːld/

noun 12
verb 12
forms 9
phrases 3

noun12

A product.
The quantity of something produced.
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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.
The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
The volume of water escaping from a spring.
The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
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Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
- When bond yields rise slowly over time, it’s not a problem for pensions deploying LDI strategies, and actually helps their finances. — 2022
The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
yield strength of a material.
The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
(dialect, no longer used) Payment; money; tribute.

verb12

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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.
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To produce as return from an investment.
- Historically, that security yields a high return.
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To produce as a result.
- Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
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To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.
To give up; to surrender or capitulate.
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To give as demanded; to relinquish.
- They refuse to yield to the enemy.
- Eventually she stopped arguing and yielded the point.
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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.
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(rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- I yield it just, said Adam, and submit. — 1667
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To give way under force; to succumb to a force.
- I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield.
To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
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(US) 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.
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(no longer used) To give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- God 'ild [yield] you, sir! — 1598

forms

yielded · yold · yieldedst · yolden · yielding · dild · yieldeth · yields · yieldest

Phrases with yield

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