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YIELD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Production of a certain amount
Synonyms:
output; yield
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("yield" is a kind of...):
production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yield"):
crop; harvest (the yield from plants in a single growing season)
Derivation:
yield (give or supply)
yield (bring in)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An amount of a product
Synonyms:
fruit; yield
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("yield" is a kind of...):
product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)
Derivation:
yield (give or supply)
yield (bring in)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
Example:
the average return was about 5%
Synonyms:
issue; payoff; proceeds; return; take; takings; yield
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("yield" is a kind of...):
income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yield"):
economic rent; rent (the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions)
payback (financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment))
Derivation:
yield (give or supply)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
Example:
production was up in the second quarter
Synonyms:
output; production; yield
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("yield" is a kind of...):
indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yield"):
pick; picking (the quantity of a crop that is harvested)
Derivation:
yield (give or supply)
yield (bring in)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they yield ... he / she / it yields
Past simple: yielded
Past participle: yielded
-ing form: yielding
Sense 1
Meaning:
End resistance, as under pressure or force
Example:
The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram
Synonyms:
give way; yield
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Consent reluctantly
Synonyms:
buckle under; give in; knuckle under; succumb; yield
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):
accept; consent; go for (give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "yield"):
accede; bow; defer; give in; submit (yield to another's wish or opinion)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to somebody
Derivation:
yielding (a verbal act of admitting defeat)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Be willing to concede
Example:
I grant you this much
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):
agree; concord; concur; hold (be in accord; be in agreement)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "yield"):
forgive (stop blaming or grant forgiveness)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to somebody
Derivation:
yielding (the act of conceding or yielding)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Cease opposition; stop fighting
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "yield"):
give up; surrender (give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another)
fall (be captured)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to somebody
Derivation:
yielder (a person who yields or surrenders)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Be flexible under stress of physical force
Example:
This material doesn't give
Synonyms:
give; yield
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):
stretch (become longer by being stretched and pulled)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 6
Meaning:
Give or supply
Example:
The estate renders some revenue for the family
Synonyms:
generate; give; render; return; yield
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):
create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)
Verb group:
establish; give (bring about)
give; yield (cause to happen or be responsible for)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
yield (production of a certain amount)
yield (an amount of a product)
yield (the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property)
yield (the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time))
Sense 7
Meaning:
Cause to happen or be responsible for
Example:
His two singles gave the team the victory
Synonyms:
give; yield
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Verb group:
generate; give; render; return; yield (give or supply)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sense 8
Meaning:
Move in order to make room for someone for something
Example:
'Move over,' he told the crowd
Synonyms:
ease up; give; give way; move over; yield
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Verb group:
abandon; give up (stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
These cars won't yield
Sense 9
Meaning:
Bring in
Example:
How much does this savings certificate pay annually?
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):
bring in; clear; earn; gain; make; pull in; realise; realize; take in (earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages)
Domain category:
investment; investment funds (money that is invested with an expectation of profit)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "yield"):
clear; net (yield as a net profit)
pay off (yield a profit or result)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
yield (production of a certain amount)
yield (an amount of a product)
yield (the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time))
Sense 10
Meaning:
Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
Synonyms:
cede; concede; grant; yield
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):
give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sense 11
Meaning:
Be the cause or source of
Example:
Our meeting afforded much interesting information
Synonyms:
afford; give; yield
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)
Verb group:
give (cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "yield"):
open; open up (make available)
allow; allow for; leave; provide (make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Sense 12
Meaning:
Be fatally overwhelmed
Synonyms:
succumb; yield
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "yield" is one way to...):
buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 13
Meaning:
Give in, as to influence or pressure
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "yield"):
truckle (yield to out of weakness)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue yield
Antonym:
stand (hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright)
Context examples:
Bacterial chloramphenicol-O-acetyltransferase (cat) gene encodes chloramphenicol-O-acetyltransferase protein, an enzyme that acetylates the antiobiotic chloramphenicol to yield chloramphenicol 3-acetate.
(CAT Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
One thing more, I had to do, before yielding myself to the shock of these emotions.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
These include the production of lipid second messengers by phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, and the PLC-dependent hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate to yield diacylglycerol and 1,4,5-inositoltrisphosphate (IP3).
(BCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
She had at first yielded to our entreaties, but when she heard that the life of her favourite was menaced, she could no longer control her anxiety.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
They mapped a new, more accurate dataset, and compared the result to that yielded by more common, lower-sensitivity methods.
(Study reveals new patterns of key ocean nutrient, National Science Foundation)
Dreadful! I felt how right you were the whole time, but was too anxious for securing any thing to like to yield.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The king was at first very unwilling to let him go, but at last yielded to his wish.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The various bedrooms and sitting-rooms had yielded nothing to a careful search.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. Palmer joined their entreaties, all seemed equally anxious to avoid a family party; and the young ladies were obliged to yield.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
