# yield

Pronunciation: say "YEELD" /jiːld/

## Verb

1. To produce or provide something as a result, outcome, or return, such as information, a crop, a profit, or, in linguistics, a later sound.
   - Simple: To produce something, such as a result, a crop, or a profit.
   - _The experiment yielded results that contradicted the team's hypothesis._
   - _Months of negotiation may yet yield a workable compromise._
2. To give way to another vehicle or person, allowing them to proceed first. *(US)*
   - Simple: To slow down or stop so another car or person can go first.
   - _Cyclists must yield to pedestrians on the shared path._
   - _She yielded the right of way to traffic merging from the on-ramp._
3. To give up or hand over something demanded; to relinquish a possession, position, or claim.
   - Simple: To give something up when someone demands it.
   - _The defeated general yielded the city to the invading army._
   - _Negotiators expect the union to yield on its wage demands._
6. To give way under pressure or force by bending, breaking, or collapsing; of a material, to deform permanently once stressed beyond its limit.
   - Simple: To bend, break, or give way because of strong pressure or force.
   - _The dam yielded under the relentless pressure of the floodwater._
   - _Well-built scaffolding should not yield even in strong winds._

## Noun

4. The amount of something produced by a process, source, or activity, especially the quantity of a crop, animal product, or natural resource that is harvested or obtained.
   - Simple: The amount of something that is produced, such as crops from a field, oil from a well, or milk from cows.
   - _Average wheat yield in the region rose to four tons per hectare._
   - _Drought cut the vineyard's yield by nearly a third._
5. The income or profit an investment produces, often expressed as a yearly percentage of its price or value.
   - Simple: The money an investment earns, usually shown each year as a percentage of its price.
   - _The utility stock's generous dividend pushed its yield above four percent._
   - _Investors compared the yield on ten-year notes with that on dividend stocks._
7. The energy a bomb releases in its explosion, typically given in tons of TNT equivalent and used especially of nuclear weapons.
   - Simple: The amount of energy a bomb gives off when it explodes.
   - _The Hiroshima bomb had a yield of roughly fifteen kilotons._
   - _Modern warheads vary widely in yield depending on their design._
9. The stress at which a material stops returning to its original shape and begins to deform permanently.
   - Simple: The amount of force a material can take before it bends and stays bent.
   - _This alloy's yield is high enough for structural use in earthquake zones._
   - _Designers keep working stresses well below the yield of the chosen steel._

## Verb

8. To admit that something is true; to concede a point or allow a claim. *(rare)*
   - Simple: To agree that something is true, even if you did not want to.
   - _Faced with the new data, even the skeptics finally yielded the point._
   - _She refused to yield the point, even though she knew her numbers were weak._
10. To give in payment or as a reward; to repay or recompense someone for something done. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To pay someone back or give them a reward.

## Noun

11. Payment or money rendered to someone, especially tribute owed to a lord or ruler. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Money given as payment or as a tax to a ruler.

## Other meanings

- (verb) Of a running process, to hand control back to the operating system so that other processes can run.
- (noun) The act of a thread relinquishing the processor so that other waiting threads can execute.

## Origin

The verb comes from Middle English yielden, from Old English ġieldan ("to pay"), going back through Proto-Germanic *geldaną, possibly to a Proto-Indo-European root *gʰeldʰ- ("to pay"). The noun comes from Old English ġield ("payment"), from the related Proto-Germanic noun *geldą, and is related to Dutch geld and German Geld.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/yield (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).