yield
A productA product.
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» Rich soil yields good crops.
Reichhaltige Böden bringen gute Ernten. — Augustus
Родючий ґрунт дає багатий урожай. — Ahha
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
11 senses(countable, uncountable)A product.
an amount of a product
The quantity of something produced.
(countable, uncountable)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.
(countable, uncountable)The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
(countable, uncountable)The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
(countable, uncountable)The volume of water escaping from a spring.
(countable, uncountable)The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
(countable, uncountable)Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
(countable, uncountable)The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
(countable, material, uncountable)Yield strength of a material.
(countable, uncountable)The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
(countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)Payment; money; tribute.
Examples
143 sentencesRich soil yields good crops.
Родючий ґрунт дає багатий урожай. — Ahha
deReichhaltige Böden bringen gute Ernten. — Augustus
You must not yield to temptation.
ruТы не должен поддаваться соблазну. — sharptoothed
deDu darfst der Versuchung nicht nachgeben. — freddy1
Stock investments do not always yield profit.
ruВложения в акции не всегда приносят прибыль. — fjay69
deAktienanlagen sind nicht immer gewinnbringend. — mayabe
I'll stand up for what I believe in and won't yield to any threats.
Those two experiments yielded similar results.
deDiese beiden Experimente lieferten ähnliche Ergebnisse. — Tamy
Translations
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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
plural: yieldsSynonyms
14 synonyms- an amount of a product:fruit
- production of a certain amount:output
- the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time):outputproduction
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property:returnissuetaketakingsproceedspayoff
Word family
30 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.