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waive
English
Alternative forms
- wave (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?v, IPA(key): /we?v/
- Rhymes: -e?v
- Homophone: wave
Etymology 1
From Middle English weyven (“to avoid, renounce”), from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif”), from waif (“waif”).
Verb
waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)
- (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
- If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
- (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
- (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
- a. 1683, Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”:
- […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others
- a. 1683, Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”:
- (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
- (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
Derived terms
- waivable
- waiver
Related terms
- waiver
- waif
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English weyven (“to wave, waver”), from Old Norse veifa (“to wave, swing”) (Norwegian veiva), from Proto-Germanic *waibijan?.
Verb
waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)
- (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant’s Tale”, Canterbury Tales:
- ye been so ful of sapience / That yow ne liketh, for youre heighe prudence, / To weyven fro the word of Salomon.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant’s Tale”, Canterbury Tales:
Translations
Etymology 3
From Anglo-Norman waive, probably as the past participle of weyver, as Etymology 1, above.
Noun
waive (plural waives)
- (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
- (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
- […] what a wretched, and disconsolate hermitage is that house, which is not visited by thee, and what a waive and stray is that man, that hath not thy marks upon him?
Translations
Anagrams
- aview
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yield
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)
- (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!
- To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
- The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
- To give way; to allow another to pass first.
- Yield the right of way to pedestrians.
- To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
- They refuse to yield to the enemy.
- 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.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii[1]:
- (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.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 21:
- To produce as return, as from an investment.
- Historically, that security yields a high return.
- (mathematics) To produce as a result.
- Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
- (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.
- (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- (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)
- (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
- A product; the quantity of something produced.
- (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
- (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
Synonyms
- crop
- fruits
- gain
- harvest
- produce
- return
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Leidy, ylide
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