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yielding

/ˈjiːldɪŋ/
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verb

  • 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.

adjective

  • Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.

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