different between yield vs aftermath

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

English

Etymology

From after- +? math (“a mowing”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æf.t?.?mæ?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???f.t?.?m???/, /?æf.t?.?mæ?/

Noun

aftermath (plural aftermaths)

1. (obsolete, agriculture) A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season.
   • 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes:

     They were cutting aftermath on all sides, which gave the neighbourhood, this gusty autumn morning, an untimely smell of hay.

2. That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.

   In contrast to most projections of the aftermath of nuclear war, in this there is no rioting or looting.

Related terms

• beforemath

Translations

Anagrams

• hamfatter