different between offer vs yield

English

Alternative forms

• offre (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f?(?)/, /???f?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??f?/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /??f?/
• Rhymes: -?f?(?), -??f?(?)
• Hyphenation: of?fer

Etymology 1

From Middle English offer, from Old English offrian (“offer or make a sacrifice”) rather than from Old French offre (“offer”), from offrir (“to offer”), from Latin offer? (“to present, bring before”). Compare North Frisian offer (“sacrifice, donation, fee”), Dutch offer (“offering, sacrifice”), German Opfer (“victim, sacrifice”), Danish offer (“victim, sacrifice”), Icelandic offr (“offering”). See verb below.

Noun

offer (plural offers)

1. A proposal that has been made.
2. Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.

3. (law) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.

Derived terms

• make an offer

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English offren, offrien, from Old English offrian (“to offer, sacrifice, bring an oblation”), from Latin offer? (“to present, bestow, bring before”, literally “to bring to”), from Latin ob + fer? (“bring, carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-, *b?r?- (“to carry, bear”), later reinforced by Old French offrir (“to offer”). Cognate with Old Frisian offria (“to offer”), Old Dutch offr?n (“to offer”), German opfern (“to offer”), Old Norse offra (“to offer”). More at ob-, bear.

Verb

offer (third-person singular simple present offers, present participle offering, simple past and past participle offered)

1. (intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).

2. (transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.

3. (transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
4. (transitive) To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Exodus xxix. 36

     Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.

5. (transitive, engineering) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
6. (transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.

7. (intransitive) To happen, to present itself.

   • The occasion offers, and the youth complies.
8. (obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     I will not offer at that I cannot master.
9. (transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to-infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Related terms

• offering
• offertory
• oblate
• oblation

Translations

Etymology 3

off +? -er

Noun

offer (plural offers)

1. (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off

Anagrams

• offre, reffo

Danish

Noun

offer n (singular definite ofret or offeret, plural indefinite ofre)

1. sacrifice
2. victim

Inflection

Derived terms

• slagteoffer
• ofre

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??f?r/
• Hyphenation: of?fer
• Rhymes: -?f?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch offere, from Old Dutch [Term?].

Noun

offer n (plural offers, diminutive offertje n)

1. sacrifice
2. victim

Derived terms

• brandoffer
• offeren
• plengoffer
• reukoffer
• slachtoffer
• zoenoffer

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

offer

1. first-person singular present indicative of offeren
2. imperative of offeren

Latin

Verb

offer

1. second-person singular present active imperative of offer?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse offr

Noun

offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer or ofre, definite plural ofra or ofrene)

1. a sacrifice
2. a victim, a casualty

Derived terms

• dødsoffer
• selvmordsoffer

References

• “offer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse offr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?r/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer, definite plural offera)

1. a sacrifice
2. a victim, a casualty

Derived terms

• dødsoffer

References

• “offer” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse offr.

Pronunciation

Noun

offer n

1. sacrifice
2. victim

Declension

Anagrams

• Roffe

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin offerenda.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /??f?r/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /??far/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?o?f?r/, /??f?r/

Noun

offer f (plural offerau or offeriau or offrau)

1. equipment

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ji?ld/
• Rhymes: -i?ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English yielden, yelden, ?elden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ?ieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan, from Proto-Germanic *geldan? (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?eld?- (“to pay”).

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
   • God yield thee, and God thank ye.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette

     The good mother holds me still a child! Good mother is bad mother unto me! A worse were better; yet no worse would I. Heaven yield her for it!

2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
   • The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

3. To give way; to allow another to pass first.

   Yield the right of way to pedestrians.

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

   They refuse to yield to the enemy.
5. To give, or give forth, (anything).
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[1]:

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

6. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 21:

     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.

7. To produce as return, as from an investment.

   Historically, that security yields a high return.

8. (mathematics) To produce as a result.

   Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.

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

   Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.

10. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
11. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

Synonyms

• submit - To fully surrender
• capitulate - To end all resistance, may imply a compensation with an enemy or to end all resistance because of loss of hope
• succumb - To fully surrender, because of helplessness and extreme weakness, to the leader of an opposing force
• relent - A yielding because of pity or mercy
• defer - A voluntary submitting out of respect, reverence or affection
• give way - To succumb to persistent persuasion.
• surrender - To give up into the power, control, or possession of another
• cede - To give up, give way, give away
• give up - To surrender
• produce - To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.
• bear - To produce something, such as fruit or crops
• supply - To provide (something), to make (something) available for use
• give in
• to trade away - to let others get hold of a property or right of yours.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ?eld, from Old English ?ield, from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geld? (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?eld?- (“to pay”).

Noun

yield (countable and uncountable, plural yields)

1. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
2. A product; the quantity of something produced.

3. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
4. (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.

Synonyms

• crop
• fruits
• gain
• harvest
• produce
• return

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Leidy, ylide