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yield /ˈji(ə)ld/
生產量,投資收益(vt.)生產,給予,同意,被迫放棄,放縱(vi.)出產,屈服,投降
yield
成品; 成品率; 合格率; 輸出; 產生; 得到; 屈服; 良率 YLD
yield
產出
Yield n. Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation. “A goodly yield of fruit doth bring.”
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Yield v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yielded; obs. p. p. Yold p. pr. & vb. n. Yielding.]
1. 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.
To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent. --Chaucer.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength. --Gen. iv. 12.
2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. “Vines yield nectar.”
[He] makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. --Job xxiv. 5.
3. 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.
And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown. --Shak.
Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame. --Milton.
4. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
I yield it just, said Adam, and submit. --Milton.
5. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
6. To give a reward to; to bless. [Obs.]
Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,
And the gods yield you for 't. --Shak.
God yield thee, and God thank ye. --Beau. & Fl.
To yield the breath, To yield the breath up, To yield the ghost, To yield the ghost up, To yield up the ghost, or To yield the life, to die; to expire; -- similar to To give up the ghost.
One calmly yields his willing breath. --Keble.
Yield, v. i.
1. To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
He saw the fainting Grecians yield. --Dryden.
2. To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
3. 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.
Will ye relent,
And yield to mercy while 't is offered you? --Shak.
4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.
Nay tell me first, in what more happy fields
The thistle springs, to which the lily yields? --Pope.
yield
n 1: production of a certain amount [syn: output]
2: an amount of a product [syn: fruit]
3: the income arising from land or other property; "the average
return was about 5%" [syn: return, issue, proceeds,
take, takings, payoff]
4: the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created
(usually within a given period of time); "production was
up in the second quarter" [syn: output, production]
v 1: be the cause or source of; "He gave me a lot of trouble";
"Our meeting afforded much interesting information"
[syn: give, afford]
2: end resistance, especially under pressure or force; "The
door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram" [syn:
give way]
3: give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This
year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate
renders some revenue for the family" [syn: render, return,
give, generate]
4: give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control
of another [syn: concede, cede, grant]
5: give in, as to influence or pressure [syn: relent, soften]
[ant: stand]
6: move in order to make room for someone for something; "The
park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the
crowd" [syn: move over, give way, give, ease up]
7: bring about; "His two singles gave the team the victory"
[syn: give, bring about]
8: be willing to concede; "I grant you this much" [syn: concede,
grant]
9: be fatally overwhelmed [syn: succumb] [ant: survive]
10: bring in; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this
savings certificate pay annually?" [syn: pay, bear]
11: be flexible under stress of physical force; "This material
doesn't give" [syn: give]
12: cease opposition; stop fighting
13: consent reluctantly [syn: give in, succumb, knuckle
under, buckle under]