verb

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To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.

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To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.

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To give way; to allow another to pass first.

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Yield the right of way to pedestrians.

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To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.

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They refuse to yield to the enemy.

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To give, or give forth, (anything).

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To give way; to succumb to a force.

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To produce as return, as from an investment.

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Historically, that security yields a high return.

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To produce as a result.

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Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.

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To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.

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Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.

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(of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.

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To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

Examples of yield in a Sentence

The yield of corn varies from six to ten times the amount sown.

The division of labor applied to science will yield substantial results.

They yield as much as 12 tons per acre.

They told me that in a good day they could get out a thousand tons, which was the yield of about one acre.

Her body ached for him, but to yield to him would be her death.

The fruits do not yield their true flavor to the purchaser of them, nor to him who raises them for the market.

They kissed, and Jackson immediately felt her yield under his embrace.

The vineyards of Bugey and Revermont yield good wines.

Let others--the young--yield afresh to that fraud, but we know life, our life is finished!

Similarly, seed makers are judged by the crops the seeds grow into—specifically, the yield and how long it takes to get it.

Polyporus igniarius and other species are also used, but yield an inferior product.

In several of the states, New South Wales and South Australia proper, the railways yield more than the interest paid by the government on the money borrowed for their construction.

Even knowing so, she had been willing to yield to him.

Only the dead-looking evergreen firs dotted about in the forest, and this oak, refused to yield to the charm of spring or notice either the spring or the sunshine.

The yield for 1901 was 5528 tons, but a large increase took place subsequently, eleven million new plants having been added in southern Italy in 1905.

While the prime principle in man is the social, "the next in order is not to yield to the persuasions of the body, when they are not conformable to the rational principle which must govern."

Agriculture is carried on in a more intelligent manner, and the yield is higher.

The woods do not yield another such a gem.

An acre used to yield on an average 300 tons of phosphatic nodules, value £750.

They yield valuable coals, clays, marls and ganister.

The figure denoting the general average yield per acre of any class of crop needs readjustment after every successive harvest.

The delta soil is typically a heavy, black, alluvial clay, very fertile, but difficult to work; admixture of sand is beneficial, and the localities where this occurs yield the best cotton.

The Devonian system yields much oil and gas in western Pennsylvania, south-western New York, West Virginia and Ontario; and some of the Devonian beds in Tennessee yield phosphates of commercial value.

Being once sown, it will last five years; the land, when ploughed, will yield, three or four years together, rich crops of wheat, and after that a crop of oats, with which clover seed is to be sown again.

Whereas formerly the farmer was to some extent compensated by a higher price for a smaller yield, in recent years he had had to compete with an unusually large supply at greatly reduced prices.

Wheat in particular was a poor crop in 1892, and the low yield was associated with falling prices due to large imports.

The hot drought of 1893 extended over the spring and summer months, but there was an abundant rainfall in the autumn; correspondingly there was an unprecedentedly bad yield of corn and hay crops, but a moderately fair yield of the main root crops (turnips and swedes).

It is quite possible for a hot dry season to be associated with a large yield of corn, provided the drought is confined to a suitable period, as was the case in 1896 and still more so in 1898; the English wheat crops in those years were probably the biggest in yield per acre that had been harvested since 1868, which is always looked back upon as a remarkable year for wheat.

The drought of 1898 was interrupted by copious rains in June, and these falling on a warm soil led to a rapid growth of grass and, as measured by yield per acre, an exceedingly heavy crop of hay.

It is important to notice that the figures relating to total production and yield per acre are only estimates, and it is not claimed for them that they are anything more.

The total produce of any crop in a given year must depend mainly upon the acreage grown, whilst the average yield per acre will be determined chiefly by the character of the season.

No very great reliance can be placed upon the figures relating to turnips (which include swedes), as these are mostly fed to sheep on the ground, so that the estimates as to yield are necessarily vague.

The hay made from clover, sainfoin and grasses under rotation generally gives a bigger average yield than that from permanent grass land.

Again, although from the richest old permanent meadow-lands very heavy crops of hay are taken season after season, the general average yield of permanent grass is about 3 cwt.

It thus appears that the average yield of wheat in Great Britain, as calculated upon the crops harvested during the ten years (1896-1905), exceeded 31 bushels to the acre, whereas, for the ten years ended 1895, it fell below 29 bushels.

A large expansion in the acreage of the wheat crop would probably be attended by a decline in the average yield per acre, for when a United Kingdom, 1895-1904.

Even without manure the average produce over forty-six years, 1852-1897, was nearly thirteen bushels per acre, or about the average yield per acre of 1 The higher yield of wheat in the later years of the 19th century appears to be largely attributable to better grain-growing seasons.

In one case, indeed, the average produce by mixed minerals and nitrogenous manure was more than that by the annual application of farmyard manure; and in seven out of the ten cases in which such mixtures were used the average yield per acre was from over two to over eight bushels more than the average yield of the United Kingdom (assuming this to be about twenty-eight bushels of 60 lb per bushel) under ordinary rotation.

Thus the cereal crops, when grown in rotation, yield more produce for sale in the season of growth than when grown continuously.

These esters are readily hydrolysed and yield the monoand di-alkylimalonic acids which, on heating, are readily decomposed, with evolution of carbon dioxide and the formation of monoand di-alkyl acetic acids.

Towards the city the red soil is intersected by creeks and morasses, whose margins yield crops of rice, mustard and til seed; while to the east of the town, a broad, alluvial, well-cultivated plain reaches as far as the junction of the Dhaleswari and Lakshmia rivers.

These early schools, which consist chiefly of one-year and two-year-old fishes, yield sometimes enormous catches, whilst in other years they escape the drift-nets altogether, passing them, for some hitherto Unexplained reason, at a greater depth than that to which the nets reach, 1 The term "Spanish mackerel" is applied in America to Cybium maculatum.

The average yield of lint per " saw " in the United States, when working under perfect conditions, is about 6 lb per hour.

In the cotton belt of the United States it would be possible to put a still greater acreage under this crop, but the tendency is rather towards what is known as " diversified " or mixed farming than to making cotton the sole important crop. Cotton, however, is in increasing demand, and the problem for the American cotton planter is to obtain a better yield of cotton from the same area, - by " better yield " meaning an increase not only in quantity but also in quality of lint.

A simple method of increasing the yield is that practised with success by some growers in the States.

The table indicates the chief cottonproducing islands, the acreage in each, yield, average value per pound and total value of the crop in 1905-1906.

The low yield per acre in this island, and also the low value of the lint per lb compared with the Sea Island cotton, is clearly apparent.

The points just noted apply also to the average fluctuation and the standard deviation, but it is probable in these cases that daily or even weekly quotations would be sufficient to yield the information sought for with sufficient exactness for purposes of comparison.

About 20 gallons of lemon juice should yield about 1 0 lb of crystallized citric acid.

Particulars of the shales which yield oil on destructive distillation are given in the article on paraffin.

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