yield

English

/jiːld/

verb
Definitions
  • (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
  • To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
  • To give way; to allow another to pass first.
  • To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
  • To give, or give forth, (anything).
  • (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
  • To produce as return, as from an investment.
  • (mathematics) To produce as a result.
  • (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
  • (engineering) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
  • (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English yielden inherited from Old English ġieldan (pay, sacrifice to, worship, render, serve, reward, yield, pay for, requite, punish) inherited from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (pay, compensate, yield, have give value, have value) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (pay, repay, pay for).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*gʰeldʰ-

Gloss

pay, repay, pay for

Concept
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Ontological Category

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