English Dictionary

yield

/jiːld/

verb

(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.

He yielded his debts.

意味（1）

(obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.

God 'ild [yield] you, sir!

意味（2）

To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.

Vines yield nectar.

意味（3）

To give way; to allow another to pass first.

Yield the right of way to pedestrians.

意味（4）

To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.

They refuse to yield to the enemy.

意味（5）

To give, or give forth, (anything).

[…] We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never / Yields us kind answer.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.

He turned the handle as he spoke, but the door did not yield. We threw ourselves against it. With a crash it burst open, and we almost fell headlong into the room.

意味（7）

To produce as return, as from an investment.

Historically, that security yields a high return.

意味（8）

(mathematics) To produce as a result.

Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.

意味（9）

(linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.

Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.

意味（10）

(engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.

意味（11）

(rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.