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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