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• 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...

• Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.

1. (agriculture) Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.

2. (forestry, fishery) The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.

3. (chemistry) The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.

4. (hydrology) The volume of water escaping from a spring.

5. The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.

6. (finance) 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...
   • 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...

7. (law) 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...

• This method generally yields better results.
• The new variety of potatoes yields 20% more.
• The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 24:5:

Synonyms: furnish afford give forth

1. To produce as return from an investment.

   • Historically, that security yields a high return.

   Synonyms: furnish afford give forth

2. (mathematics) To produce as a result.

   • Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.

   Synonyms: furnish afford give forth

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

   • Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.

   Synonyms: furnish afford give forth

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]...
   • 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,...
   • God yield thee, and God thank ye. - 1623 January 5 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Spanish Curat”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and...

   Synonyms: furnish afford give forth

• They refuse to yield to the enemy.
• Eventually she stopped arguing and yielded the point.
• Won with thy words, & conquered with thy lookes, / I yeeld my ſelfe, my men & horſe to thee: / To be partaker of thy good or ill, / As long as life maintaines Theridimas. - c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher...

1. (transitive or intransitive) To give as demanded; to relinquish.

2. (transitive or intransitive, especially US) 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.

3. (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...
   • ⁠For though my nature rarely yields ⁠To that vague fear implied in death; ⁠Nor shudders at the gulfs beneath, The howlings from forgotten fields; […] - 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XL”, in In Memoriam, London:...

4. (computing, 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.

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

6. (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,...