Topic: TRANSPORT
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| Language: | Old English |
| Origin: | gieldan |
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yield1
1 to produce a result, answer, or piece of information :
result
[transitive]2 to produce crops, profits etc : Each of these oilfields could yield billions of barrels of oil. The tourist industry yielded an estimated $2.25 billion for the state last year.
crops/profits
[transitive]Each of these oilfields could yield billions of barrels of oil.The tourist industry yielded an estimated $2.25 billion for the state last year.3 to allow yourself to be forced or persuaded to do something or stop having something : The military has promised to yield power.
agree unwillingly
[intransitive and transitive]The military has promised to yield power.4 to allow other traffic on a bigger road to go first [= give way British English]
traffic
[intransitive] American EnglishTT yield to Yield to traffic on the left.
Yield to traffic on the left.5 to move, bend, or break because of physical force or pressure [= give]: Ideally, the surface should yield slightly under pressure.
move/bend/break
[intransitive]Ideally, the surface should yield slightly under pressure.6 to stop fighting and accept defeat [= surrender]
give up fighting
[intransitive] literaryyield to something
phrasal verbLaughter quickly yielded to amazement as the show went on.yield something ↔ up
phrasal verb1 to show or produce something that was hidden or difficult to find, or that people did not know about [= throw up]: New research has yielded up some surprising discoveries.
New research has yielded up some surprising discoveries.2 British English formal to give something that belongs to you to someone else, because you are forced to [= surrender]: He would never yield up the castle to the English.
He would never yield up the castle to the English.
