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yield [ yield ]
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1. Produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product)
The two reactions each yielded a product of 1.5 kb.
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2. Produce or generate (a result, gain, or financial return)
It yields the same result.
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3. Give way to arguments, demands, or pressure.
She yielded to their demands.
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4. Relinquish possession of.
they are forced to yield ground
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5. Concede (a point of dispute)
I yielded the point
6. Give right of way to other traffic.
Motorists will be able to proceed through the intersection after yielding to circulating traffic on the left.
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7. (of a mass or structure) give way under force or pressure.
The structure yields.
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Noun
1. An amount produced of an agricultural or industrial product.
the milk yield was poor
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2. A financial return.
The four smaller operators offer juicy yields of around 6% or more.
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Origin
1. Old English g(i)eldan ‘pay, repay’, of Germanic origin. The senses ‘produce, bear’ and ‘surrender’ arose in Middle English.
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