yield
yield has 28 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.
Definitions
- 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.
- v. t.. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
- 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.
- v. t.. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- v. t.. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
- v. t.. To give a reward to; to bless.
- v. i.. To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
- v. i.. To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
- 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.
- v. i.. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.
- n.. Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.
- n.. production of a certain amount