All 16 Uses of
yield
in
The Magic Mountain
- What belongs to you is invested quite nicely and will yield a secure return.
Chpt 2.2 *yield = produce or give
- Her brain would yield nothing more.†
Chpt 4.3yield = give
- The Italian would not yield, but brandished the Word like a sword. triumphed with it.
Chpt 6.8yield = give up, give in, or give way
- And he held his last expressive gesture, which both yielded to her and waived all responsibility for any substantial misinterpretation she might make despite his broad hints.
Chpt 7.3 *yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Frau Chauchat likewise indulged in filter-tipped cigarettes that she took from a Russian enameled box decorated with a speeding troika, which she had laid within easy reach on the table; nor did Peeperkorn scold his neighbor for yielding to the pleasure, though he did not smoke himself, never had.
Chpt 7.3yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- They yielded, unruffled—first, because his expression seemed to say that he had years of experience at this, and second, because they were much less interested in occupying themselves at the source of this new pleasure than in letting someone serve it up to them in comfort, just so long as they didn't get bored.
Chpt 7.7yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- that she was looking his way, he pretended to stare with emphatic distaste at a pimply lady who had stepped up to his table to chat with the great-aunt; he held his eyes fixed on her for a good two or three minutes, never yielding until he was certain that the Kirghiz eyes across the way had given up—a strange bit of playacting that Frau Chauchat could easily have seen through, indeed was meant to see through, so that Hans Castorp's refinement and self-control would give her pause.†
Chpt 4.9
- There could be no limit to such division as long as it yielded organic entities—that is, those possessing the characteristics of life, in particular the ability to ingest, grow, and multiply.†
Chpt 5.7
- The suggestion had been Hans Castorp's, and although Joachim had some doubts at first because of poor Karen, he had yielded, admitting that it would have been pointless to play hide-and-seek with her, shielding her out of anxiety, a la cowardly Frau Stohr, from anything that might remind her of her mortality.†
Chpt 5.8
- They walked four abreast in a ragged row, as much as possible, but when they passed people coming from the opposite direction, Settembrini, on the right flank, was forced to step out into the road; or the line would be broken up when someone else temporarily dropped back and yielded the right-of-way—Naphta, for instance, on the left, or Hans Castorp, who had been walking between the humanist and Joachim.†
Chpt 6.2
- His actions were hardly those of a sportsman, because a sportsman is 3 man of caution, who gets involved with the elements only as long as he knows he is their lord and master and prudently yields when he must.†
Chpt 6.7
- Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.†
Chpt 6.7
- Where previously, by yielding just slightly, he had not found it easy to separate the "now" of today from that of yesterday, or the day before yesterday, or the day before that, when all were alike as peas in a pod, of late that same "now" was apt, even likely, to muddle its present with a present that had prevailed a month or a year before, and to fuse into an "always."†
Chpt 7.1
- But what should one think of a son of this earth—at an age, moreover, when a day, a week, a month, a semester should play an important role in life and bring a great many changes and much progress—who one day acquires the disgraceful habit, or at least yields occasionally to the pleasure, of saying "yesterday" for "a year ago" and "tomorrow" for "a year from now"?†
Chpt 7.1
- The plan was that every newspaper subscriber would have to save his daily paper, weighing i .4 ounces, which would then be collected on the first of each month, yielding approximately thirty pounds of used paper a year, no less than six hundred pounds in twenty years—at ten pfennigs a pound, that would come to sixty German marks.†
Chpt 7.6
- They would have ruined the records by playing them with used needles and leaving them lying around just anywhere on chairs, would have used the apparatus for stupid jokes like playing some sublime piece with the dial set at a speed of 110 or 0, yielding hysteric tweets or intermittent groans.†
Chpt 7.7
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)