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Yield: Definition and part of speech

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Yield

  1. n. Amount yielded; product; — applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.
  2. v. t. To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.
  3. v. t. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
  4. v. t. To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.
  5. v. t. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
  6. v. t. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
  7. v. t. To give a reward to; to bless.
  8. v. i. To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
  9. v. i. To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
  10. v. i. To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded.
  11. 1n. 1 Amount yielded; product; — applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Yieldance: Definition and part of speech

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Yieldance

  1. n. The act of yielding; concession.
  2. n. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.