yield
noun
1. production of a certain amount
Similar word(s): output
Definition categories: act, production
2. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
Similar word(s): issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings
Definition categories: possession, income
3. an amount of a product
Similar word(s): fruit
Definition categories: man–made, product, production
4. the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
Similar word(s): output, production
Definition categories: quantity
Sentences with yield as a noun:
- Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.
verb
1. be the cause or source of
Definition categories: possession, furnish, provide, render, supply
2. end resistance, as under pressure or force
- The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram
Definition categories: change
3. give or supply
- This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn
Similar word(s): generate, give, render, return
Definition categories: creation, create, make, produce
4. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
Similar word(s): cede, concede, grant
Definition categories: possession, give
5. give in, as to influence or pressure
Similar word(s): relent, soften
Definition categories: stative
6. move in order to make room for someone for something
Similar word(s): give
Definition categories: motion, move
7. cause to happen or be responsible for
Similar word(s): give
Definition categories: creation, create, make
8. be willing to concede
Similar word(s): concede, grant
Definition categories: communication, agree, concord, concur, hold
9. be fatally overwhelmed
Similar word(s): succumb
Definition categories: stative, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, exit, expire, go, pass, perish
10. bring in
Definition categories: possession, clear, earn, gain, make, realise, realize
11. be flexible under stress of physical force
Similar word(s): give
Definition categories: contact, stretch
12. cease opposition; stop fighting
Definition categories: competition
13. consent reluctantly
Similar word(s): succumb
Definition categories: communication, accept, consent
Sentences with yield as a verb:
- Yield the right of way to pedestrians.
- They refuse to yield to the enemy.
- Historically, that security yields a high return.
- Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.