All 6 Uses
yield
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Adam Bede
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- The boy's flutelike voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer deeper music.
Chpt 51 *yield = produce or give
- The amatory David was a young man of an unconscious abstracted expression, which was due probably to a squint of superior intensity rather than to any mental characteristic; for he was not indifferent to Ben's invitation, but blushed and laughed and rubbed his sleeve over his mouth in a way that was regarded as a symptom of yielding.
Chpt 53 *yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- and while her aunt was discoursing to him about the limited amount of milk that was to be spared for butter and cheese so long as the calves were not all weaned, and a large quantity but inferior quality of milk yielded by the shorthorn, which had been bought on experiment, together with other matters which must be interesting to a young gentleman who would one day be a landlord, Hetty tossed and patted her pound of butter with quite a self-possessed, coquettish air, slyly conscious that no turn of her head was lost.†
Chpt 7
- There's no fear but he'll yield well i' the threshing.†
Chpt 14
- Has your grandfather yielded on the other point too, and agreed to have a respectable man as steward?†
Chpt 22
- "Then if Hetty 'ull dance with me," said Adam, yielding either to Mrs. Poyser's argument or to something else, "I'll dance whichever dance she's free."†
Chpt 26
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)