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yield as in: will yield valuable data
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The discovery could yield a more effective treatment for diabetes.
yield = produce (lead to)
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The experiment yielded data that raised a new set of questions.yielded = produced
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A warmer climate has reduced crop yields in the area.yields = production
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It's a tradeoff. Bonds that yield more interest have more risk.yield = produce
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I want a high-yield investment.yield = production (in this case, creation of more income)
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After countless tries, the net yielded two flopping silvery fish. (source)yielded = produced
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Ted started kicking him in the kidneys, yielding bursts of white-hot agony. (source)yielding = producing
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"A diamond must be cut many times before it yields even a tiny jewel," I said. (source)yields = gives
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The idea, it seemed, was to stop hunting for the thing entirely and let the house yield up its secret on its own. (source)yield up = give
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The phone yielded up a supplementary offer: "I thought it would appeal to you anyhow as a psychologist."† (source)yielded up = produced or showed
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One seated, yielding up her throat to the kind hands of one of the two kneeling before her.† (source)yielding up = producing or showing
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Fly to the forest, firm-antlered he-deer, Spurred from afar, his spirit he yieldeth, 50 His life on the shore, ere in he will venture To cover his head.† (source)yieldeth = someone who produces (something desired)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She yieldeth" in older English, today we say "She yields."
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Then I his alter'd hue perceiving, thus: "How may I speed, if thou yieldest to dread, Who still art wont to comfort me in doubt?"† (source)yieldest = producestandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou yieldest" in older English, today we say "You yield."
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He washed his own linen in the bath-tub and, except for occasional fiercely delightful yieldings, he did not smoke.† (source)
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yield as in: yield to pressure
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The country vowed not to yield to pressure from its larger neighbors.
yield = give in
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After the scandal, she yielded to public pressure and resigned her position.yielded = gave in
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A yield sign means you do not have the right-of-way if other cars are also approaching the intersection.yield = give way
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When a mountain road narrows to one lane, it is polite and efficient for the car driving down hill to yield to the car going up hill.
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I've been good about my diet for a month, but last night I yielded to temptation and had too much ice cream.yielded = gave in
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So he did, yet Aeetes still did not yield the fleece. (source)yield = give up
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It was slippery, like glass, but soft and yielding when you pushed on it. (source)yielding = easily moved (giving way)
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When he pushed, there was solid, unyielding resistance. (source)unyielding = firm (unmoving)standard 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.
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His body is warm, but I feel only his bones and the muscle that wraps around them; nothing yields beneath me. (source)yields = gives way (is soft)
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"To my thinking," said the dairyman, rising suddenly from a cow he had just finished off, snatching up his three-legged stool in one hand and the pail in the other, and moving on to the next hard-yielder in his vicinity, "to my thinking, the cows don't gie down their milk to-day as usual.† (source)yielder = someone who gives in, gives way, or gives up
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Knowing, however, the dairyman's wish, she endeavoured conscientiously to take the animals just as they came, expecting the very hard yielders which she could not yet manage.† (source)
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In turn he took his place in the reading class and made a botch of it; then in the geography class and turned lakes into mountains, mountains into rivers, and rivers into continents, till chaos was come again; then in the spelling class, and got "turned down," by a succession of mere baby words, till he brought up at the foot and yielded up the pewter medal which he had worn with ostentation for months. (source)yielded up = surrendered
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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. (source)yielding up = surrendering
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Women, more especially—in the continually recurring trials of wounded, wasted, wronged, misplaced, or erring and sinful passion—or with the dreary burden of a heart unyielded, because unvalued and unsought came to Hester's cottage, demanding why they were so wretched, and what the remedy! (source)unyielded = not having given instandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyielded means not and reverses the meaning of yielded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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