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• yield´er — yield «yeeld», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. a) to produce; bear: »This land yields good crops. Mines yield ores. SYNONYM(S): furnish, supply. b) to give in return; bring in: »an investment which yielded a large profit. c) to fill a need; furnish; afford …   Useful english dictionary

• yield — yield1 [ji:ld] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(result)¦ 2¦(crops/profits)¦ 3¦(agree unwillingly)¦ 4¦(traffic)¦ 5¦(move/bend/break)¦ 6¦(give up fighting)¦ Phrasal verbs 　yield to something 　yield something<=>up ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [: Old English; Origin …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• yield — 1 verb 1 CROPS/PROFITS (T) to produce crops, profits etc: The land yielded a good wheat crop. | Mining shares often yield a high level of return. 2 RESULT (T) to produce a result, answer, or a piece of information: Careful analysis yielded the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Yield — The percentage rate of return paid on a stock in the form of dividends, or the effective rate of interest paid on a bond or note. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * ▪ I. yield yield 1 [jiːld] noun 1. [countable, uncountable] FINANCE the… …   Financial and business terms

• yield — A measure of the annual return on an investment. Chicago Board of Trade glossary 1) The production of a piece of land; e.g., his land yielded 100 bushels per acre. 2) The return provided by an investment; for example, if the return on an… …   Financial and business terms

• yield — 01. The oil fields of Alberta [yield] millions of gallons of oil each year. 02. Our strawberry patch [yielded] at least 10 pounds of berries last summer. 03. The Cuban government has refused to [yield] to pressure from the U.S. to end communist… …   Grammatical examples in English

• yield — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gieldan; akin to Old High German geltan to pay Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. archaic recompense, reward 2. to give or render as fitting, rightfully owed, or required 3. to give up …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• yield — {{11}}yield (n.) O.E. gield payment, sum of money (see YIELD (Cf. yield) (v.)); extended sense of production (as of crops) is first attested mid 15c. Earliest English sense survives in financial yield from investments. {{12}}yield (v.) O.E.… …   Etymology dictionary

• yield — v. & n. v. 1 tr. (also absol.) produce or return as a fruit, profit, or result (the land yields crops; the land yields poorly; the investment yields 15%). 2 tr. give up; surrender, concede; comply with a demand for (yielded the fortress; yielded… …   Useful english dictionary

• yield gene — noun Etymology: yield (II) + gene : any of a group of complementary genes no one of which has apparent individual effect; especially : one that directly or indirectly affects (as by increasing resistance to disease or to drouth) the yield of… …   Useful english dictionary

• crops — krÉ’p n. harvest, produce (Agriculture); group; sac like enlargement in the gullet of a bird which serves as a receptacle for partially digested food which is either digested or fed to nestlings; whip; short haircut v. harvest; cut short, clip;… …   English contemporary dictionary