2 meanings, 11 uses
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1 —1 use as in:
will yield valuable data
Definition
to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
- He asked the veterinarian about the value of different breeds of stock; he inquired of Lyman Cass whether or not Einar Gyseldson really had had a yield of forty bushels of wheat to the acre.Chapter 16 (22% in)
yield = production
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2 —5 uses as in:
yield to pressure
Definition
to give in, give way, or give up
- She wasn't going to yield to the village and let down; she was going to keep up a belief in the rite of tea, to which she had always looked forward as the symbol of a leisurely fine existence.Chapter 10 (2% in)
yield = give in, give way, or give up
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- She had a reasonless dread that they would intrude on her, then a fear that she would yield to Gopher Prairie's conception of duty toward an Aunt Bessie and go down-stairs to be "nice."Chapter 24 (63% in)
- She felt the demand for standardized behavior coming in waves from all the citizens who sat in their sitting-rooms watching her with respectable eyes, waiting, demanding, unyielding.Chapter 24 (64% in)
- She found no inspiration but she did find a dependable kindness in Mrs. Westlake, and at last she yielded to the old woman's receptivity and had relief in sobbing the story of Bea.Chapter 27 (37% in)
- He looked at her unyielding.Chapter 31 (17% in)
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? —5 uses
exact meaning not specified
- Mrs. Dave Dyer broke into Carol's peroration with a furious, "That's all very well, but believe me, I do those things myself when I'm without a maid—and that's a good share of the time for a person that isn't willing to yield and pay exorbitant wages!"Chapter 7 (84% in)
- On the way home from shopping she yielded, as a pup would have yielded.Chapter 7 (44% in)
- On the way home from shopping she yielded, as a pup would have yielded.Chapter 7 (44% in)
- They ground their own corn; the men-folks shot ducks and pigeons and prairie chickens; the new breakings yielded the turnip-like rutabagas, which they ate raw and boiled and baked and raw again.Chapter 12 (68% in)
- She pondered, half-way between yielding and refusal.Chapter 33 (23% in)
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