Yield

/jiːld/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
2. To give up; to surrender or capitulate.
3. A product.
4. The quantity of something produced.
5. (engineering, material science) yield strength of a material.
6. (programming) The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
7. (obsolete or dialectal) Payment; money; tribute.

Example Sentences

This method generally yields better results.

The new variety of potatoes yields 20% more.

The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

[…] We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never / Yields us kind answer.

Vines yield nectar.

Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed.

In the case of countries more favoured by climate than Britain their earliest trade with the foreigner which history has to record is usually in the surface products of the earth—in corn or wine, in the yields of the olive-grove or the orchard.

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Word Forms

• yields
• yielding
• yielded
• yold
• yolden

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