different between sire vs yield

English

Etymology

From Middle English sire, from Old French sire, the nominative singular of seignor; from Latin senior, from senex. Doublet of senior, seigneur, seignior, sir, and monsieur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Noun

sire (plural sires)

1. A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
2. A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
3. (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
4. (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.

Coordinate terms

• (male animal): dam

Translations

Verb

sire (third-person singular simple present sires, present participle siring, simple past and past participle sired)

1. (transitive, of a male) to father; to beget.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 6:

     In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.

Translations

Anagrams

• EIRs, Eris, Iser, SIer, Seri, eirs, ires, reis, rise

Danish

Etymology

From German zieren.

Verb

sire

1. (archaic) adorn
2. (archaic, by extension, especially in the passive participle) endow with a favorable quality

Derived terms

• vansire

References

• “sire” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

French

Etymology

From Old French sire (nominative form), from Vulgar Latin *seior (used as a term of address), a contracted form of Latin senior (compare French seigneur, derived from the accusative form), perhaps influenced by maior. Doublet of senior.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: cire, cirent, cires, sires

Noun

sire m (plural sires)

1. (obsolete) sire (term of respect)
2. (obsolete) lord

Derived terms

• triste sire

Related terms

• monsieur
• seigneur

Further reading

• “sire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ries

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sire. See also sere. Doublet of signore.

Noun

sire m (invariable)

1. king, monarch

   Synonyms: re, sovrano, monarca, maestà

   only when addressing a sovereign

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sir, sirre, syre, syr, seere, ser, sure, sore
• ?

Etymology

From Old French sire, nominative singular of seignor, from Latin senior. Doublet of senyour.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?r(?)/, /?sir(?)/

Noun

sire (plural sires)

1. Used preceding the name or title of a knight, noble, or cleric.
2. A respectful term of address for a noble or gentleman.
3. A noble or lord; one of high station.
4. A husband as the head of a household.
5. A father as one's progenitor.

Descendants

• English: sir; sire
• Scots: sir; sire

References

• “s??r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si.r?/

Noun

sire m

1. nominative singular of sieur

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

sire

1. locative singular of siras

Romanian

Etymology

From French sire.

Noun

sire m (uncountable)

1. sire

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

sire (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of siriti

Slovene

Noun

sire

1. accusative plural of sir

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