yield
IPA: jˈiɫd
noun
- (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
- A product; the quantity of something produced.
- The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuke, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
- (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
- (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
verb
- to give
- (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
- To give, or give forth, (anything).
- To give up; to surrender or capitulate.
- To give as demanded; to relinquish.
- To give way; to allow another to pass first.
- (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
- (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- to produce
- To produce as return, as from an investment.
- (mathematics) To produce as a result.
- (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
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Examples of "yield" in Sentences
- This yields the recurrence relation.
- The king yielded his land to the enemy.
- Elastic bands are flexible and yielding.
- It is one of the species yielding iroko.
- This option adds to the yield of the note.
- The decision is very flexible and yielding.
- The officers of the army all forced to yield.
- The Lamanites yield up the lands of the Nephites.
- The residue is then smelted to yield the alloy metal.
- The analogous reaction with bromine is reversible, and yields.
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