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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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descend
English
Etymology
From Middle English decenden, borrowed from Old French descendre, from Latin descendere, past participle descensus (“to come down, go down, fall, sink”), from de- (“down”) + scandere (“to climb”). See scan, scandent. Compare ascend, condescend, transcend.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??s?nd/
- Hyphenation (US): de?scend; (UK): des?cend
- Rhymes: -?nd
Verb
descend (third-person singular simple present descends, present participle descending, simple past and past participle descended)
- (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.
- 2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland: A Novel
- Rudy felt a gust of fear rise in his chest, and he looked again in the mirror, but the hangar and stable were now beyond the rise, out of sight, he was descending so fast.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge: From the Conquest to the Year 1634
- We will here descend to matters of later date.
- 1611, King James Version, Matthew vii. 25.
- The rain descended, and the floods came.
- 2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland: A Novel
- (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
- [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended.
- (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
- 2013, Deltrice Alfred Grossmith, Arctic Warriors: A Personal Account of Convoy PQ18
- more aircraft descending on us than had done during previous visits from the snoopers in their usual ones and twos.
- 1726, Alexander Pope, Odyssey
- And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.
- 2013, Deltrice Alfred Grossmith, Arctic Warriors: A Personal Account of Convoy PQ18
- (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself
- August 25, 1759, Samuel Johnson, The Idler No. 71
- He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings.
- August 25, 1759, Samuel Johnson, The Idler No. 71
- (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.
- (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock
- to be derived (from)
- to proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.
- (intransitive, astronomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
- (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
- (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
Synonyms
- go down
Antonyms
- ascend
- go up
Derived terms
- descender
Related terms
- descent
Translations
Anagrams
- scended
French
Verb
descend
- third-person singular present indicative of descendre
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