Meaning

11 senses
  1. 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.

    give or supply

  2. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

    To produce as return from an investment.

    Historically, that security yields a high return.

    (Ertrag) abwerfen, bringen, erbringen

    дава́тьdavátʹ, приводи́ть кprivodítʹ k, производи́тьproizvodítʹ

  3. To produce as a result.

    Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.

    ergeben

    приводи́ть кprivodítʹ k, результироватьсяrezulʹtirovatʹsja

  4. To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.

    Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.

  5. To give up; to surrender or capitulate.

    (intransitive, transitive)To give as demanded; to relinquish.

    They refuse to yield to the enemy.

    Eventually she stopped arguing and yielded the point.

    give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

  6. (US, especially, intransitive, transitive)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.

  7. (intransitive)To give way under force; to succumb to a force.

    I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield.

    end resistance, as under pressure or force

  8. (intransitive)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.

  9. To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.

  10. (rare)To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

    be willing to concede

  11. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

    (obsolete)To give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.

Examples

143 sentences
  1. Rich soil yields good crops.

    Родючий ґрунт дає багатий урожай.

    deReichhaltige Böden bringen gute Ernten.

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  2. You must not yield to temptation.

    ruТы не должен поддаваться соблазну.

    deDu darfst der Versuchung nicht nachgeben.

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  3. Stock investments do not always yield profit.

    ruВложения в акции не всегда приносят прибыль.

    deAktienanlagen sind nicht immer gewinnbringend.

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  4. I'll stand up for what I believe in and won't yield to any threats.

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  5. Those two experiments yielded similar results.

    deDiese beiden Experimente lieferten ähnliche Ergebnisse.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 4
to give way:
to give as required:
to produce as return:
to produce as a result:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
to give way:
to give as required:
to produce as return:
to produce as a result:

Origin

From Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“

From Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan (“to pay”), from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Doublet of geld.

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Forms

yields, yielding, yielded, yielded
Base formyield · to yield
3rd person singularyields
Present participleyielding
Past simpleyielded
Past participleyielded

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyyield
he, she, ityields

Past simpleLesson

all personsyielded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave yielded
he, she, ithas yielded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill yield

Synonyms

42 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

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