All 24 Uses of
yield
in
Moby Dick
- But at last all these fancies yielded to that one portentous something in the picture's midst.
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)yielded = gave way
- And like a sister of charity did this charitable Aunt Charity bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn her hand and heart to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort, and consolation to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother Bildad was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two of well-saved dollars.
Chpt 19-21 (definition 2)yield = provide or give
- Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington.
Chpt 22-24 (definition 2)
- It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as "whale oil," an inferior article in commerce.
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)yields = produces
- Though their blubber is very thin, some of these whales will yield you upwards of thirty gallons of oil.
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)yield = provide or give
- A well-fed, plump Huzza Porpoise will yield you one good gallon of good oil.
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)
- How many barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Captain Ahab? it will not fetch thee much in our Nantucket market.
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2) *
- But as the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul, therefore it must have been that, in Ahab's case, yielding up all his thoughts and fancies to his one supreme purpose; that purpose, by its own sheer inveteracy of will, forced itself against gods and devils into a kind of self-assumed, independent being of its own.
Chpt 43-45 (definition 1)yielding up = surrendering
- …territorial colonies from the East ... at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians,
Chpt 52-54 (definition 1)yield = give up
- ...his two comrades would not yield, the one to the other, in the matter; and both of them could not be first, for the ladder would but admit one man at a time.
Chpt 52-54 (definition 1) *yield = give in
- Assuming the blubber to be the skin of the whale; then, when this skin, as in the case of a very large Sperm Whale, will yield the bulk of one hundred barrels of oil; and, when it is considered that, in quantity, or rather weight, that oil, in its expressed state, is only three fourths, and not the entire substance of the coat; some idea may hence be had of the enormousness of that animated mass, a mere part of whose mere integument yields such a lake of liquid as that.
Chpt 67-69 (definition 2)yield = provide or give
- Assuming the blubber to be the skin of the whale; then, when this skin, as in the case of a very large Sperm Whale, will yield the bulk of one hundred barrels of oil; and, when it is considered that, in quantity, or rather weight, that oil, in its expressed state, is only three fourths, and not the entire substance of the coat; some idea may hence be had of the enormousness of that animated mass, a mere part of whose mere integument yields such a lake of liquid as that.
Chpt 67-69 (definition 2)yields = produces
- As you behold it, you involuntarily yield the immense superiority to him, in point of pervading dignity.
Chpt 73-75 (definition 1)yield = give way (in claiming superiority)
- Look at that hanging lower lip! what a huge sulk and pout is there! a sulk and pout, by carpenter's measurement, about twenty feet long and five feet deep; a sulk and pout that will yield you some 500 gallons of oil and more.
Chpt 73-75 (definition 2)yield = provide or give
- ...there are certain curious marks, curves, hollows, and ridges, whereby some whalemen calculate the creature's age, as the age of an oak by its circular rings. Though the certainty of this criterion is far from demonstrable, yet it has the savor of analogical probability. At any rate, if we yield to it, we must grant a far greater age to the Right Whale than at first glance will seem reasonable.
Chpt 73-75 (definition 1)yield = agree (accept, or give in)
- This particular tongue now before us; at a passing glance I should say it was a six-barreler; that is, it will yield you about that amount of oil.
Chpt 73-75 (definition 2)yield = provide or give
- A large whale's case generally yields about five hundred gallons of sperm, though from unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it is spilled, leaks, and dribbles away, or is otherwise irrevocably lost in the ticklish business of securing what you can.
Chpt 76-78 (definition 2)yields = produces
- Then remounting aloft, it again goes through the same round until the deep cistern will yield no more.
Chpt 76-78 (definition 2)yield = provide or give
- The continual sight of the fiend shapes before me, capering half in smoke and half in fire, these at last begat kindred visions in my soul, so soon as I began to yield to that unaccountable drowsiness which ever would come over me at a midnight helm.
Chpt 94-96 (definition 1)yield = give in
- And what that is, we may soon gain some idea of, by imagining all the grave-yards, cemeteries, and family vaults of creation yielding up the live bodies of all the men, women, and children who were alive seventy-five years ago; and adding this countless host to the present human population of the globe.
Chpt 103-105 (definition 2)yielding up = producing
- The life-buoy—a long slender cask—was dropped from the stern, where it always hung obedient to a cunning spring; but no hand rose to seize it, and the sun having long beat upon this cask it had shrunken, so that it slowly filled, and that parched wood also filled at its every pore; and the studded iron-bound cask followed the sailor to the bottom, as if to yield him his pillow, though in sooth but a hard one.
Chpt 124-126 (definition 2)yield = provide or give
- Tied up and twisted; gnarled and knotted with wrinkles; haggardly firm and unyielding; his eyes glowing like coals, that still glow in the ashes of ruin; untottering Ahab stood forth in the clearness of the morn; lifting his splintered helmet of a brow to the fair girl's forehead of heaven.
Chpt 130-132 (definition 1)unyielding = strictstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyielding means not and reverses the meaning of yielding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Dragged into Stubb's boat with blood-shot, blinded eyes, the white brine caking in his wrinkles; the long tension of Ahab's bodily strength did crack, and helplessly he yielded to his body's doom: for a time, lying all crushed in the bottom of Stubb's boat, like one trodden under foot of herds of elephants.
Chpt 133-135 (definition 1)yielded = surrendered (gave up)
- Pull on! 'tis the better rest, the shark's jaw than the yielding water.
Chpt 133-135 (definition 1)yielding = soft (giving way)
Definitions:
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(1) (yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
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(2) (yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced