yield
be the cause or source of
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,699 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,181 times across 155,168 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- be the cause or source of also: give, afford He gave me a lot of troubleOur meeting afforded much interesting information
- end resistance, as under pressure or force also: give way The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram
- give or supply also: render, return, give, generate The cow brings in 5 liters of milkThis year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another also: concede, cede, grant
- give in, as to influence or pressure also: relent, soften
- move in order to make room for someone for something also: move over, give way, give, ease up The park gave way to a supermarket`Move over,' he told the crowd
yield in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I hope you've had a pretty good yield of sonnets?
Punch — Volume 101, November 7, 1891 · Various · Chapter 1
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Sweet birds, when you sing to her, To yield some pity woo her.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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Where have you ever seen honest money, the money of labor, yield twelve or fourteen per cent?
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Poor Timmins was obliged to yield Hat, coat, and boots--in short He was completely stripp'd--and paid Most dearly for his "sport."
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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There are those who believe that the Canal will yield a yearly revenue of from eighty to ninety dollars in tolls alone.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1