yield

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A product. countable,uncountable
    — In the case of countries more favoured by climate than Britain their earliest trade with the foreigner which history has to record is usually in the surface products of the earth—in corn or wine, in the yields of the olive-grove or the orchard.
  2. The quantity of something produced.; Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land. countable,uncountable
    — Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.
  3. The quantity of something produced.; The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem. countable,uncountable
  4. The quantity of something produced.; The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction. countable,uncountable
  5. The quantity of something produced.; The volume of water escaping from a spring. countable,uncountable
  6. The quantity of something produced.; The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent. countable,uncountable
  7. The quantity of something produced.; Profit earned from an investment; return on investment. countable,uncountable
    — A yield curve inversion happens when long-term bond yields fall below short-term bond yields. That rarely occurs. Before this month, that section of the yield curve hadn’t inverted since 2007, just before the Great Recession.
  8. The quantity of something produced.; The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond. countable,uncountable
    — Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
  9. yield strength of a material. countable,material,uncountable
  10. The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute. countable,uncountable
  11. Payment; money; tribute. countable,dialectal,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
    — This method generally yields better results.
  2. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.; To produce as return from an investment.
    — Historically, that security yields a high return.
  3. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.; To produce as a result.
    — Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
  4. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.; To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
    — Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.
  5. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.; To give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite. obsolete
    — God 'ild [yield] you, sir!
  6. To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To give as demanded; to relinquish. intransitive,transitive
    — They refuse to yield to the enemy.
  7. To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To give way so as to allow another to pass first. US,especially,intransitive,transitive
    — Yield the right of way to pedestrians.
  8. To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To give way under force; to succumb to a force. intransitive
    — I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield.
  9. To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; Of a running thread or process: to give control back to the parent program or operating system so that other threads or processes can be allowed to run. intransitive
    — The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield.
  10. To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
  11. To give up; to surrender or capitulate.; To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. rare
    — I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.

词形变化

yields present,singular,third-person yielding participle,present yielded past yold obsolete,past yielded participle,past yold obsolete,participle,past yolden obsolete,participle,past yields plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan (“to pay”), from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Doublet of geld.
The noun is from Middle English ȝeld (“tax, payment”), from Old English ġield (“payment”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld (“payment”), from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots yield (“to yield”), North Frisian jilden (“to pay”), Saterland Frisian jäilde (“to be valid, matter, count, be worth”), West Frisian jilde (“to pay”), Low German gellen, Dutch gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), German gelten (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Danish gælde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Icelandic gjalda (“to pay, yield, give”), Norwegian Bokmål gjelde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Norwegian Nynorsk gjelde, gjelda (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Swedish gälda (“to pay”), gälla (“to apply, be regarded”).
The noun is cognate with West Frisian jild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), Low German and German Geld (“money”), Danish gæld (“debt”), Faroese and Icelandic gjald (“fee, payment”), Norn gild (“payment”), Norwegian gjeld (“debt”), and Swedish gäld (“debt”). See also geld.
词源 2
From Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan (“to pay”), from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Doublet of geld.
The noun is from Middle English ȝeld (“tax, payment”), from Old English ġield (“payment”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld (“payment”), from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots yield (“to yield”), North Frisian jilden (“to pay”), Saterland Frisian jäilde (“to be valid, matter, count, be worth”), West Frisian jilde (“to pay”), Low German gellen, Dutch gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), German gelten (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Danish gælde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Icelandic gjalda (“to pay, yield, give”), Norwegian Bokmål gjelde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Norwegian Nynorsk gjelde, gjelda (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Swedish gälda (“to pay”), gälla (“to apply, be regarded”).
The noun is cognate with West Frisian jild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), Low German and German Geld (“money”), Danish gæld (“debt”), Faroese and Icelandic gjald (“fee, payment”), Norn gild (“payment”), Norwegian gjeld (“debt”), and Swedish gäld (“debt”). See also geld.
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