All 3 Uses of
yield
in
As You Like It
- If this uncouth forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or bring it for food to thee.†
Scene 2.6 *yield = produce or give
- But, poor old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree, That cannot so much as a blossom yield In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry: But come thy ways, we'll go along together; And ere we have thy youthful wages spent We'll light upon some settled low content.†
Scene 2.3
- Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.†
Scene 3.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
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(2)
(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up