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yield

verb
/jiːld/

Etymology

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. The noun is from Middle English ȝeld (“tax, payment”), from Old English ġield (“payment”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld (“payment”), from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Cognates Cognate with Scots yield (“to yield”), North Frisian jilden (“to pay”), Saterland Frisian jäilde (“to be valid, matter, count, be worth”), West Frisian jilde (“to pay”), Low German gellen, Dutch gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), German gelten (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Danish gælde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Icelandic gjalda (“to pay, yield, give”), Norwegian Bokmål gjelde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Norwegian Nynorsk gjelde, gjelda (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Swedish gälda (“to pay”), gälla (“to apply, be regarded”). The noun is cognate with West Frisian jild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), Low German and German Geld (“money”), Danish gæld (“debt”), Faroese and Icelandic gjald (“fee, payment”), Norn gild (“payment”), Norwegian gjeld (“debt”), and Swedish gäld (“debt”). See also geld.

  1. inherited from *geldą✻
  2. inherited from *geld✻
  3. inherited from ġield
  4. inherited from ȝeld
  5. derived from *gʰeldʰ-✻
  6. inherited from *geldaną✻
  7. inherited from *geldan✻
  8. inherited from ġieldan
  9. inherited from yielden

Definitions

  1. To give as a result or outcome

    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.
    • The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

  2. To give up

    To give up; to surrender or capitulate.

    • They refuse to yield to the enemy.
    • Eventually she stopped arguing and yielded the point.
    • Won with thy words, & conquered with thy lookes, / I yeeld my ſelfe, my men & horſe to thee: / To be partaker of thy good or ill, / As long as life maintaines Theridimas.

  3. A product.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. The quantity of something produced.

      • Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.

    2. yield strength of a material.

    3. The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.

    4. Payment

      Payment; money; tribute.

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Derived

ayield, foryield, gainyield, misyield, overyielding, unyielding, upyield, yielder, yielding, yieldly, a bad tree does not yield good apples, dial-a-yield, high-yield, normalized yield, par yield, sustained yield, yield burning, yield co, yield curve, yield line, yield sign, yield strain, yield strength, yield stress, yield the field, yield the ghost, yield-to-maturity, yield to maturity, yield up, yield up the ghost, yield value

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at yield. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at yield. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at yield

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA