yield
- 1) verb, to give forth or supply (a product, result, etc), esp by cultivation, labour, etc; produce or bear
- 2) verb, to furnish as a return
- 3) verb, to surrender or relinquish, esp as a result of force, persuasion, etc
- 4) verb, to give way, submit, or surrender, as through force or persuasion
- 5) verb, to agree; comply; assent
- 6) verb, to grant or allow; concede
- 7) verb, to pay or repay
- 8) noun, the result, product, or amount yielded
- 9) noun, the profit or return, as from an investment or tax
- 10) noun, the annual income provided by an investment, usually expressed as a percentage of its cost or of its current value
- 11) noun, the energy released by the explosion of a nuclear weapon expressed in terms of the amount of TNT necessary to produce the same energy
- 12) noun, chem the quantity of a specified product obtained in a reaction or series of reactions, usually expressed as a percentage of the quantity that is theoretically obtainable
Etymology
Old English gieldan; related to Old Frisian jelda, Old High German geltan, Old Norse gjalda, Gothic gildan
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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profit, produce, crop, harvest, output, return, income, revenue, earnings, taking, concede, allow, grant, permit, bow, submit, give in, surrender, succumb, cave in (informal), capitulate, knuckle under, relinquish, resign, hand over, surrender, turn over, make over, cede, give over, bequeath, abdicate, surrender, give up, give in, cave in (informal), knuckle under, produce, give, provide, pay, return, supply, bear, net, earn, afford, generate, bring in, furnish