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yield

/jiːld/

Smotix Dictionary

To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
To give way; to allow another to pass first.
"Yield the right of way to pedestrians."
To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
"They refuse to yield to the enemy."
To give, or give forth, (anything).
To give way; to succumb to a force.
To produce as return, as from an investment.
"Historically, that security yields a high return."
To produce as a result.
"Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7."
To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
"Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-."
(of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.