Yield

Meaning

Yield has several meanings. As a verb, it can mean to produce a result or amount, to give way or surrender, or to allow someone or something to proceed. As a noun, it can mean the amount produced by something, especially a crop or investment.

Pronunciation

/jiːld/

Word Forms

• Base form: yield
• Past tense: yielded
• Past participle: yielded
• Present participle: yielding
• Noun: yield

Synonyms

Antonyms

Common Collocations

• yield results — to produce a particular result.
• yield a profit — to produce a financial gain.
• yield to pressure — to stop resisting because of pressure.
• yield to someone — to give way or surrender to someone.
• yield crops — to produce a particular amount of crops.
• high yield — a large amount produced or earned.

Example Sentences

• The experiment yielded unexpected results.
• The farm yields several tons of wheat every year.
• He refused to yield to pressure from his opponents.
• The investment is expected to yield a substantial return.
• The driver slowed down to yield to the approaching traffic.

Literary Example

Example:

“Yield itself is a funny word—yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land, the thing he’s waited for and gets to claim.”

— Tara June Winch, The Yield

Here, yield is explored through both its agricultural meaning and its deeper meaning within the novel. The passage contrasts the English sense of something produced or harvested with the Wiradjuri understanding connected to giving, movement, and yielding. :contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4}

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