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yield

/jiːld/

yield verb: to give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

Verb

yield (third-person singular simple present yields, present participle yielding, simple past yielded or (obsolete) yold, past participle yielded or (obsolete) yold or (obsolete) yolden)

  1. 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.
    1. To produce as return from an investment.
      • Historically, that security yields a high return.
    2. To produce as a result.
      • Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
    3. To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
      • Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.
    4. (obsolete) To give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
      • God 'ild [yield] you, sir!c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
      • Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, / And the gods yield you for 't.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To give as demanded; to relinquish.
    • They refuse to yield to the enemy.
    • Eventually she stopped arguing and yielded the point.
  3. (US, especially, intransitive, transitive) To give way so as to allow another to pass first.
    • Yield the right of way to pedestrians.
    • It is not clear from the road markings who is supposed to yield at the junction.
  4. (intransitive) To give way under force; to succumb to a force.
    • I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield.
    • One equal temper of heroic hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.1833 October 20 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Ulysses”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 91
  5. (intransitive) Of a running thread or process: to give control back to the parent program or operating system so that other threads or processes can be allowed to run.
    • The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield.
  6. (materials science) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
  7. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
    • I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Noun

yield (countable and uncountable, plural yields)

  1. A product.
    • 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.1902, Traill, H. D.; Mann, James Saumarez, Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the...
  2. Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
    • Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.
  3. (fishery) The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
  4. The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
  5. The volume of water escaping from a spring.
  6. The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
  7. Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
    • A yield curve inversion happens when long-term bond yields fall below short-term bond yields. That rarely occurs. Before this month, that section of the yield curve hadn’t inverted since 2007, just before the Great Recession.2019 August 22, “What is the yield curve and why it matters”, in CNN Business
    • When bond yields rise slowly over time, it’s not a problem for pensions deploying LDI strategies, and actually helps their finances.2022 October 8, Julia Horowitz, “How meltdown in a $1 trillion market brought the UK to the brink of a financial crisis”, in CNN Business
  8. The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
    • Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension...2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020, page 68
  9. (material) yield strength of a material.
  10. The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
  11. (dialectal, obsolete) Payment; money; tribute.

yield meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

yield in Hindi

yield , produce, harvest
उपज upaj
to yield
लेटना leṭnā, मान जाना mān jānā

yield in Tamil

இசைந்து கொடு, இணங்கு, மேனி, விளைச்சல், விளைவு, மகசூல்

yield in Urdu

yield, germination, originality
اپج upaj
to yield
لیٹنا leṭnā, مان جانا mān jānā

yield in Bengali

উৎপাদ, উৎপন্ন বস্তু, সমর্পণ করা, হার মানা, মানিয়া লত্তয়া, বাহির করা
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yield in Telugu
దిగుబడి digubaḍi, రాబడి rābaḍi
yield in Malayalam
ഒതുങ്ങുക otuṅṅuka
yield in Kannada
ಆದಾಯ, ಫಲ, ಉತ್ಪತ್ತಿ, ಫಸಲು
yield in Sanskrit
दुह् duh, नम् nam, शक्नोति śaknóti, रि ri
yield in Tagalog
maghatag
yield in Arabic
أَجْزَأَ ʔajzaʔa, أَجْزَى ʔajzā, أَدَرَّ ʔadarra, أَغَلَّ ʔaḡalla
yield in Indonesian
hasil, rendemen
yield in Thai
ผลผลิต

Examples of yield in a sentence

  • The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 24:5:
  • […] We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never / Yields us kind answer.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First...
  • From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Data Discs Codex entry:
  • Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert...

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Synonyms of yield

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Forms of yield

Verb
third-person singular presentyields
present participleyielding
pastyielded
past participleyielded
past (obsolete)yold
past participle (obsolete)yold
past participle (obsolete)yolden
Noun
pluralyields

Past tense of yield: yielded

Plural of yield: yields

Origin of yield

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...

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Questions about yield

What does yield mean?
Yield means to give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
What is yield in Hindi?
Yield in Hindi is उपज (upaj), लेटना (leṭnā), मान जाना (mān jānā). See Yield meaning in Hindi.
How do you use yield in a sentence?
The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
What part of speech is yield?
Yield can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce yield?
Yield is pronounced /jiːld/.
What is the past tense of yield?
The past tense of yield is yielded.

Words near yield in the dictionary

  1. Yidmaxxes
  2. Yidmaxxing
  3. Yidn
  4. yids
  5. Yidu
  6. yield
  7. yield burning
  8. yield co
  9. yield cos
  10. yield curve
  11. yield curves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yield (page history and authors); उपज (Hindi) (page history and authors); yield (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اپج (Urdu) (page history and authors); yield (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഒതുങ്ങുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); yield (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); दुह् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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