yield
Meanings
- To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
- To produce as return from an investment.
- To produce as a result.
- To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- To give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- To give up; to surrender or capitulate.
- To give as demanded; to relinquish.
- To give way so as to allow another to pass first.
- To give way under force; to succumb to a force.
- Of a running thread or process: to give control back to the parent program or operating system so that other threads or processes can be allowed to run.
- To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- A product.
- The quantity of something produced.
- Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
- The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
- The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
- The volume of water escaping from a spring.
- The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
- Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
- The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
- yield strength of a material.
- The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
- Payment; money; tribute.
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Etymology
From Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan (“to pay”), from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Doublet of geld. The noun is from Middle English ȝeld (“tax, payment”), from Old English ġield (“payment”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld (“payment”), from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Cognates Cognate with Scots yield (“to yield”), North Frisian jilden (“to pay”), Saterland Frisian jäilde (“to be valid, matter, count, be worth”), West Frisian jilde (“to pay”), Low German gellen, Dutch gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), German gelten (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Danish gælde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Icelandic gjalda (“to pay, yield, give”), Norwegian Bokmål gjelde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Norwegian Nynorsk gjelde, gjelda (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Swedish gälda (“to pay”), gälla (“to apply, be regarded”). The noun is cognate with West Frisian jild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), Low German and German Geld (“money”), Danish gæld (“debt”), Faroese and Icelandic gjald (“fee, payment”), Norn gild (“payment”), Norwegian gjeld (“debt”), and Swedish gäld (“debt”). See also geld.