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yield
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
succumb/yield to temptationformal (= give in to temptation)
▪ Lorna succumbed to temptation and ordered the apple pie.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
benefit
▪ For a high inflation country, the ability occasionally to devalue its currency is important and its exercise can yield benefits.
▪ In short, here is a service which yields substantial benefits but for which the market would allocate no resources.
▪ Fourth, the elimination of exchange rate uncertainty is likely to yield benefits in terms of higher growth rates of intra-union trade and investment.
▪ But businesses in the United States are discovering that a homegrown version of work-based learning can yield benefits.
▪ In spite of this tendency towards complexity, some authorities have suggested that a simpler approach may yield benefits.
▪ In the short run, artful centrism clearly yields political benefits.
▪ Small changes in behaviour can yield huge benefits.
▪ Spreading the philosophy of quality improvement among our suppliers will also yield enormous benefits.
crop
▪ We can model how crop yields might vary with temperature.
▪ He pored over geography books in the Richmond library, searching for information on climate, soil conditions, and crop yields.
▪ Given the benefits of less fertiliser, liming and ploughing costs and better crop yields it is little wonder.
government
▪ In the face of some trenchantly expressed disapproval from the Conservative benches, the Government refused to yield.
▪ These securities, backed by the U.S. government, recently yielded 1.6 percent more than 30-year bonds.
▪ The government would not yield to pressure, she promised.
information
▪ In the laboratory only reactants and products can generally be obtained, yielding little information about the nature of a reaction pathway.
▪ However, a study of work-inhibited students' standardized achievement tests yielded dramatic information.
▪ So spectroscopy can yield information on plasma temperatures.
▪ These photographs refuse to yield information.
▪ Some discreet enquiries there yielded the information that fitzAlan was about to take Tracy, leaving his new wife at home.
▪ Your enquiries should, again, yield positive information about the existence or otherwise of mains drains.
insight
▪ Work with other organisms should yield some insight into the likely outcome.
▪ Such an examination can yield further insights into how gender informs self-constituting and meaning-producing activity 7.
▪ The focus on performance and work yielded additional insights about specific behavior and skill changes.
▪ Even where a general model is not available, however, study of special cases can still yield useful insights.
▪ Some skepticism from Summerlee not withstanding, the station has already yielded useful insights.
pressure
▪ This is not a reason why district ethics committees should yield to pressure to abdicate their responsibilities to local citizens.
▪ At some point, he yielded to the pressure.
▪ It should not casually diminish these hard-won gains by yielding to the pressures and temptations of the day.
▪ She yields to his pressure and obscures her political statements by bursting into tears.
▪ The government would not yield to pressure, she promised.
price
▪ Higher house prices mean lower rental yields because rent becomes a smaller proportion of the purchase price.
▪ Stocks also benefited from a rebound in Treasury bond prices that drove yields lower.
▪ Bonds with greater duration experience greater price movements as yields fluctuate.
profit
▪ Privilege parking places yield little profit, while special perks can precipitate horrendous losses.
▪ Sales less cost of sales yields a gross profit of $ 350.
▪ Certainly the struggle for overseas investment opportunities provoked tensions; and small colonial wars could yield large profits.
▪ The answer is that firms will want to use the most efficient technique because it yields the greatest profit.
rate
▪ Further questions which yielded a success rate of less than 50 percent for the middle third of the pupils are now considered.
▪ The latter question will yield a higher participation rate than the former, since it picks up infrequent participation.
▪ From the literature it is not clear whether prolongation of therapy beyond four months yield a higher response rate.
result
▪ Hoomey could bloody well suffer, if it yielded results.
▪ Unfortunately, this comedy of errors rarely yields funny results.
▪ The investigation, he concluded without surprise, yielded negative results.
▪ In contemporary matters, Shoumatoff yields better results.
▪ It is also far more likely than a reactive search to yield positive results.
▪ Obviously, the eyes are colored by some simple rule that yields the results you have seen.
▪ Studies of homoeopathic remedies in relation to prostaglandin metabolism may therefore yield interesting and fruitful results.
▪ This method does not always yield a unique result.
return
▪ A car is highly illiquid, but yields a high return to the owner.
▪ Mailed questionnaires are inexpensive but yield a low return in terms of mail-back from respondents.
▪ Sport can possess the characteristic of a capital good, one that yields a return as part of a market production process.
▪ Y may be sold short and the proceeds invested in X yielding a riskless return for no investment.
▪ Noise/horror strikes me as a limited form of self-destruction, that can only yield diminishing returns.
▪ Partly for that reason, too many projects yield poor returns.
▪ The government and housing divisions were said to have yielded the lowest returns and action is promised to boost their performance.
▪ Casting wider for other presidential candidates does not yield a healthy return.
temptation
▪ A solution presents itself: the book will not yield to the hectic temptations, the seductions of the fevered imagination.
▪ Nor does it yield to the temptation to manipulate performance and financial data in a way that obscures hard truths.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A search of Mann's home yielded a pair of bloody gloves.
▪ Each of these fields could yield billions of barrels of oil.
▪ Government securities have traditionally yielded less than stocks.
▪ The military has promised to yield power after legislators draw up a new constitution.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bonds due 2026 yield 5. 65 %.
▪ But so urgent was getting the planer working that this time Taylor yielded.
▪ Different standards of significance will naturally yield different theories - sets of laws relating significant descriptions.
▪ He yielded as before, and very soon the two wicked women arrived, with their plot carefully worked out.
▪ Teaching well takes time and often yields little tangible reward.
▪ To the persistent seeker the Bible yields more and more of its riches.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ A zero's equivalent annual yield will typically range from about 7.5 per cent to 9 per cent.
▪ Your annual yield would increase from what I estimate to be a current $ 3, 871 to $ 8, 545.
▪ The sign-flags showed the average annual yields.
average
▪ They range from 8.10 percent to 9.68 percent and the weighted average gross yield is over 8.5 percent.
▪ On five-year jumbos, the average yield fell to 5. 22 % from 5. 26 %, according to BanxQuote.
▪ Tobacco industry Government policy also favours a progressive lowering of average yields of tar in all cigarettes.
▪ On five-year jumbos, the average yield fell to 5. 26 % from 5. 30 %, BanxQuote said.
▪ The average seven-day simple yield dropped to 5. 15 % from 5. 16 %.
▪ The average yield dropped to 7. 4 % from 8. 7 % at the beginning of the year.
current
▪ The overall return is then given by which exceeds the current yield by 4.93 percent.
▪ Suppose investors believe that the one year holding period yield of bonds is above the current short-term yield.
▪ The current gross yield is about 5.46 percent gross.
▪ It would not comment on either its current yield or its backlog.
▪ It has a duration of 12 years and the current yield to maturity is 10 percent.
▪ The Eurotrack 100 yields about 3.1 percent, which exceeds the current yield of the trust's portfolio.
▪ From this we can determine current yields.
▪ If the current yield is 5 percent, the post-April yield could be 4.69 percent.
equivalent
▪ A zero's equivalent annual yield will typically range from about 7.5 per cent to 9 per cent.
gross
▪ The current gross yield is about 5.46 percent gross.
▪ The expected gross initial yield is 6.5%.
▪ Initial gross yield is estimated at 6.6%.
▪ At the initial offer price for the unit trust of 50p, the estimated gross yield is 6.25%.
▪ They range from 8.10 percent to 9.68 percent and the weighted average gross yield is over 8.5 percent.
▪ For example, Treasury 10.5% 1999 at present commands a price of £104 15/16 to give a gross redemption yield of 10.01%.
▪ The net redemption yield is lower than the gross redemption yield.
▪ Estimated gross yield at 100p is 4.5% a year.
high
▪ These high yields can be tempting but dangerous.
▪ Investors are snapping up asset-backed bonds because they offer a higher yield than Treasury securities without much more risk.
▪ So returns will be more stable on a share with a higher dividend yield, other things being equal.
▪ Several predicted that they will be reap higher yields and profits while saving their soil.
▪ Endoscopy has the highest yield for any of the tests performed.
▪ Welfare commissioners, labor secretaries, commerce department staffers-all can shift resources into areas of higher productivity and yield.
▪ All of these reactions give high yields and are often quantitative.
▪ Soviero joined Fidelity in 1989 as a high yield analyst.
low
▪ Poorly managed and with low yields, it was propped up with a huge loan from the estate's trustees.
▪ The critical handicap under which she laboured, however, appears to have been the low yield of the land.
▪ But low hydrogen yields and poisoned catalysts soon had these systems grinding to a halt.
▪ Note that eurobonds are unlikely to attract tax exempt investors such as pension funds, given the lower yield associated with bearer status.
▪ Normally, however, ordinary shareholders expect lower yields than preference shareholders and loan stock holders because of their participation rights.
▪ As breed numbers are now critically low, reliable yield figures are unavailable, but its dairy potential could still be exploited.
▪ A lower dividend yield can be compensated for with higher capital gains and viceversa.
maximum
▪ Stocks are now believed to be below the level which would allow the predicted maximum yield of 175,000 tonnes per year.
▪ The optimum yield is not necessarily the theoretical yield or even the maximum possible yield.
▪ In general, the aim of fisheries advisers is to establish the maximum sustainable yield for each prey species.
■ NOUN
bond
▪ Bundesbank officials have been fretting in public about rising bond yields and the weaker D-mark.
▪ The markets are sending the opposite message to the Fed. Bond yields are above the federal funds rate of 8.25%.
▪ A fall in bond yields, which move inversely to bond prices, make stocks a more attractive investment compared with bonds.
▪ Bonds soared, as the 10-year government bond yield fell 9 basis points to 8. 24.
▪ Banks fell as benchmark 30-year Treasury bond yields climbed to 6. 17 percent from 6. 04 percent Monday.
▪ Financial stocks dropped on concern that Treasury bonds yields are headed up, squeezing banks profit margins.
▪ Benchmark 30-year bond yields dipped to 6. 15 percent from 6. 19 percent yesterday.
crop
▪ With cross-breeding, they improve crop yields and increase resistance to pests and disease.
▪ The forecast is not entirely gloomy. Crop yields will improve dramatically as vegetation thrives on an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide.
▪ Pesticide use was reduced by 65 percent in the first year whilst crop yields increased.
▪ Plantations plantations had an excellent year with increased crop yields and improved prices for its produce.
▪ Tax was levied on the land regardless of crop yield, and an average family could hardly break even.
▪ Milk yields, crop yields and food conversion rates were all similar to those of the better farms in Britain.
curve
▪ But the yield curve is abnormally steep.
▪ Each category of debt will have its own yield curve relationships.
▪ The difference between short and long rates has produced a yield curve that has rarely been steeper.
▪ Exhibit 9. 1 shows the so-called normal yield curve, where long-term rates are higher than short-term rates.
▪ That steep yield curve has turned into political temptation.
▪ A positive yield curve represents the normal condition of the capital markets.
▪ But a flat yield curve implies that the yields to maturity of all bonds should be identical.
▪ Exhibit 9. 2 shows a negative yield curve.
dividend
▪ If the dividend yield is 4 percent perannum, then the quarterly dividend payment is 1 percent.
▪ The Dow dividend yield is 1. 95 percent, a record low.
▪ But for the basic rate taxpayer, the problem of annual management charges eroding a diminished dividend yield remains.
▪ The stockholders' expected rate of return has two components-an expected dividend yield and an expected capital gain.
▪ These summary measures are earnings per share, the price-earnings ratio and the dividend yield.
▪ This is not the same as the most commonly used measure of dividends: the dividend yield.
▪ The net dividend yield is defined as, using Table 6.2.
▪ You calculate the dividend yield by dividing the annual dividend by the market price of a stock.
milk
▪ The emphasis is on beef but its milk yield remains adequate and it can still be considered a dual-purpose type.
▪ It can also cause a reduced milk yield, thus making the pups cry, creating yet more stress.
▪ The biggest factor in calf performance is the milk yield of the dam.
▪ Poor farmers value an animal not by growth rate or milk yield, but by its ability to survive and reproduce.
redemption
▪ The running yield is currently 8.24 per cent, with a redemption yield of 6.87 per cent.
▪ Perpetual Monthly Income Plus contains some equity, and the redemption yield is currently 9.24 per cent.
▪ But the redemption yield will be worth something only if there is enough money in the kitty to pay out on maturity.
▪ For example, Treasury 10.5% 1999 at present commands a price of £104 15/16 to give a gross redemption yield of 10.01%.
▪ In the case of Treasury 9¾ percent stock 2002 the redemption yield, at end-February 1992, was 9.27%.
▪ The net redemption yield is lower than the gross redemption yield.
■ VERB
calculate
▪ It is then often necessary to calculate the percentage yield.
▪ You calculate the dividend yield by dividing the annual dividend by the market price of a stock.
▪ So far, we have calculated the yield to maturity on the basis of semi-annual discounting of semiannual coupon payments.
▪ But eurobonds make annual payments, and the appropriate method of calculating the yield to maturity is to use annual discounting.
drive
▪ That prospect drove the yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond down 18 points this week.
▪ Bonds climbed for a third day, driving the yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond below 6 percent.
expect
▪ When a firm buys a new machine, it presumably expects the yield of the investment to exceed its cost.
▪ The stockholders' expected rate of return has two components-an expected dividend yield and an expected capital gain.
▪ Why would you expect the yield on treasury bills normally to be rather lower than on government bonds? 2.
▪ Normally, however, ordinary shareholders expect lower yields than preference shareholders and loan stock holders because of their participation rights.
fall
▪ Crop yields would fall as a result of shorter growing periods, and reduced solar radiation due to heavier cloud cover.
▪ On Friday, the yield fell as low as 6. 16 percent before settling at 6. 29 percent.
▪ Consequently bond prices were rising and their yields were falling.
▪ The five-year yield fell 1 basis point to 6. 89 percent.
▪ Some long-dated stocks closed nearly four full points higher with yields falling to just over 9 p.c.
▪ Bond yields are also falling, in the expectation that deflation will persist well into the future.
increase
▪ Poor farmers can not afford expensive modern technologies that could increase their yields.
▪ They also intend to increase yields by providing tractors, pumps and other machinery with their project aid.
▪ Duration increases as coupon and yield decrease as shown in Fig. 5.14.
▪ That they will increase yields and therefore benefit farmers economically at a time of considerable financial uncertainty.
produce
▪ A chemical reaction which produces a quantitative yield is often called a stoichiometric process Many ionic reactions produce quantitative yields.
▪ Desert land, meanwhile, produces smaller yields than the rich farmland lost to housing.
▪ Otherwise, the soil was rapidly exhausted and wheat produced no yield.
▪ A chemical reaction which produces a quantitative yield is thus 100% efficient.
▪ At least the rain has produced reasonably good yields on our light, drought-prone, barley land.
▪ Chemical reactions which do not produce quantitative yields are sometimes called non-stoichiometric processes.
▪ The difference between short and long rates has produced a yield curve that has rarely been steeper.
push
▪ Falling bond prices pushed yields on 30-year Treasury bonds to 6. 19 % from 6. 04 % the day before.
▪ The benchmark 30-year bond fell about 7 / 8, pushing the yield up to 6. 17 percent.
▪ Treasuries continued rising in Tokyo, pushing the yield to its lowest since Jan. 9.
▪ Bond prices jump, pushing the yield on the 30-year Treasury below 6 % for the first time since late 1993.
raise
▪ Towards the end of the decade, with elections looming, land distribution decreased in favour of greater emphasis on raising agricultural yields.
▪ The tax should raise high and reliable yields. 5.
reduce
▪ Despite this, rampant pests and diseases reduce yields to half the world average.
▪ The higher demand would raise the market price of the asset and thereby reduce the yield.
rise
▪ The yield, assuming dividends rise to 14.4p, is 5.6 p.c.
▪ It had planned to sell the bonds today, underwriters said, but decided to wait because yields have risen recently.
▪ The yield has risen 12 basis points this week.
▪ The five-year yield rose 5 basis points to 6. 59 percent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a 22% fall in this year's cotton yield
▪ If you invest the money now, the yield after only twelve months will be $3160.
▪ investments with high yields
▪ We have calculated the probable yield from this investment at around 17%.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After many hours the yield still may not be acceptable.
▪ Chemical reactions which do not produce quantitative yields are sometimes called non-stoichiometric processes.
▪ However, the situation may change if inflation rises; under those circumstances fixed yields become unattractive. 2.
▪ So returns will be more stable on a share with a higher dividend yield, other things being equal.
▪ The implied yield was 6. 15 percent a week ago.
▪ The running yield is currently 8.24 per cent, with a redemption yield of 6.87 per cent.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yield

Yield \Yield\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yielded; obs. p. p. Yold; p. pr. & vb. n. Yielding.] [OE. yelden, [yogh]elden, [yogh]ilden, AS. gieldan, gildan, to pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. g["a]lla to be worth, g["a]lda to pay, Goth. gildan in fragildan, usgildan. Cf. 1st Geld, Guild.]

  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. 1

  2. 2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. ``Vines yield nectar.''
    --Milton.

    [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.]
    --Chaucer.

    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

Yield \Yield\, n. Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation. ``A goodly yield of fruit doth bring.''
--Bacon.

Yield

Yield \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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
yield

Old English gieldan (West Saxon), geldan (Anglian) "to pay, pay for; reward, render; worship, serve, sacrifice to" (class III strong verb; past tense geald, past participle golden), from Proto-Germanic *geldan "pay" (cognates: Old Saxon geldan "to be worth," Old Norse gjaldo "to repay, return," Middle Dutch ghelden, Dutch gelden "to cost, be worth, concern," Old High German geltan, German gelten "to be worth," Gothic fra-gildan "to repay, requite").\n

\nFrom PIE *gheldh- "to pay," a root found only in Balto-Slavic and Germanic (and Old Church Slavonic žledo, Lithuanian geliuoti might be Germanic loan-words). "[T]he only generally surviving senses on the Continent are 'to be worth; to be valid, to concern, apply to,' which are not represented at all in the English word" [OED]; sense development in English comes via use of this word to translate Latin reddere, French rendre. Sense of "give in return for labor or capital invested" is from early 14c. Intransitive sense of "give oneself up, submit, surrender (to a foe)" is from c.1300. Related to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch gelt, Dutch geld, German Geld "money." Related: Yielded; yielding.

yield

Old English gield "payment, sum of money; service, offering, worship;" from the source of yield (v.). Extended sense of "production" (as of crops) is first attested mid-15c. Earliest English sense survives in financial "yield from investments."

Wiktionary
yield

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite. 2 To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. 3 To give way; to allow another to pass first. 4 To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate. 5 (context intransitive English) To give way; to succumb to a force. 6 To produce as return, as from an investment. 7 (context mathematics English) To produce as a result. 8 (context engineering materials science of a material specimen English) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation. 9 (context rare English) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context obsolete English) payment; tribute. 2 A product; the quantity of something produced. 3 (context legal English) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.

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WordNet
yield

  1. n. 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]

yield

  1. v. 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]

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Wikipedia
Yield

Yield may refer to:

Yield (wine)

In viticulture, the yield is a measure of the amount of grapes or wine that is produced per unit surface of vineyard, and is therefore a type of crop yield. Two different types of yield measures are commonly used, mass of grapes per vineyard surface, or volume of wine per vineyard surface.

The yield is often seen as a quality factor, with lower yields associated with wines with more concentrated flavours, and the maximum allowed yield is therefore regulated for many wine appellations.

Yield (album)

Yield is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on February 3, 1998. Following a short promotional tour for its previous album, No Code (1996), Pearl Jam recorded Yield throughout 1997 at Studio Litho and Studio X in Seattle, Washington. The album was proclaimed as a return to the band's early, straightforward rock sound, and marked a more collaborative effort from the band as opposed to relying heavily on frontman Eddie Vedder to compose the songs. The lyrics deal with contemplative themes, albeit seen in a more positive manner compared to the band's earlier work.

Yield received positive reviews and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200. While like No Code the album soon began dropping down the charts, Yield eventually outsold its predecessor. The band did more promotion for the album compared to No Code, including a return to full-scale touring and the release of a music video for the song " Do the Evolution". The record has been certified platinum by the RIAA in the United States. The album is Pearl Jam's last release with drummer Jack Irons, who left the band during the album's promotional tour.

Yield (finance)

In finance, the term yield describes the amount in cash (in percentage terms) that returns to the owners of a security, in the form of interest or dividends received from the security. Normally, it does not include the price variations, distinguishing it from the total return. Yield applies to various stated rates of return on stocks (common and preferred, and convertible), fixed income instruments (bonds, notes, bills, strips, zero coupon), and some other investment type insurance products (e.g. annuities).

The term is used in different situations to mean different things. It can be calculated as a ratio or as an internal rate of return (IRR). It may be used to state the owner's total return, or just a portion of income, or exceed the income.

Because of these differences, the yields from different uses should never be compared as if they were equal. This page is mainly a series of links to other pages with increased details.

Yield (chemistry)

In chemistry, yield, also referred to as reaction yield, is the amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction. The absolute yield can be given as the weight in grams or in moles (molar yield). The percentage yield (or fractional yield or relative yield), which serves to measure the effectiveness of a synthetic procedure, is calculated by dividing the amount of the desired product obtained by the theoretical yield (the unit of measure for both must be the same):

$\mbox{percent yield} = \frac{\mbox{actual yield}}{\mbox{theoretical yield}} \times 100%$

The theoretical yield is the amount predicted by a stoichiometric calculation based on the number of moles of all reactants present. This calculation assumes that only one reaction occurs and that the limiting reactant reacts completely. However the actual yield is very often smaller (the percent yield is less than 100%) for several reasons:

  • Many reactions are incomplete and the reactants are not completely converted to products. If a reverse reaction occurs, the final state contains both reactants and products in a state of chemical equilibrium.
  • Two or more reactions may occur simultaneously, so that some reactant is converted to undesired by-products.
  • Losses occur in the separation and purification of the desired product from the reaction mixture.
  • Impurities are present which do not react

The ideal or theoretical yield of a chemical reaction would be 100%. According to Vogel's Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry, yields around 100% are called quantitative, yields above 90% are called excellent, yields above 80% are very good, yields above 70% are good, yields above 50% are fair, and yields below 40% are called poor. It should however be noted that these names are arbitrary and not universally accepted, and for many reactions these expectations may be unrealistically high. Yields may appear to be above 100% when products are impure, as the measured weight of the product will include the weight of any impurities. Purification steps always lower the yield and the reported yields usually refer to the yield of the final purified product.

When more than one reactant participates in a reaction, the yield is usually calculated based on the amount of the limiting reactant, whose amount is less than stoichiometrically equivalent (or just equivalent) to the amounts of all other reactants present. Other reagents present in amounts greater than required to react with all the limiting reagent present are considered excess. As a result, the yield should not be automatically taken as a measure for reaction efficiency.

Yield (engineering)

A yield strength or yield point is the material property defined as the stress at which a material begins to deform plastically. Prior to the yield point the material will deform elastically and will return to its original shape when the applied stress is removed. Once the yield point is passed, some fraction of the deformation will be permanent and non-reversible. In the three-dimensional space of the principal stresses (σ, σ, σ), an infinite number of yield points form together a yield surface.

The yield point determines the limits of performance for mechanical components, since it represents the upper limit to forces that can be applied without permanent deformation. In structural engineering, this is a soft failure mode which does not normally cause catastrophic failure or ultimate failure unless it accelerates buckling.

Yield strength is the critical material property exploited by many fundamental techniques of material-working: to reshape material with pressure (such as forging, rolling, pressing, or hydroforming), to separate material by cutting (such as machining) or shearing, and to join components rigidly with fasteners.

Yield (college admissions)

Yield in college admissions is the percent of students who choose to enroll in a particular college or university after having been offered admission. It is calculated by dividing the number of students who choose to enroll at a school, which is often based on their decision to pay a deposit, by the number of offers of acceptance and multiplying by one hundred. A higher yield indicates greater interest in enrolling at a particular school of higher education. The yield rate is usually calculated once per year based on admissions statistics. As a statistical measure, it has been used by college ratings services as a measure of selectivity, such that a higher yield rate is a sign of a more selective college. For example, the yield rate for Harvard University was 76% in 2010, while the yield rate for Dartmouth was 55%, and the yield rate for Colorado College was 37%. The yield rate has been sometimes criticized for being subject to manipulation by college admissions staffs; in 2001, a report in the Wall Street Journal by reporter Daniel Golden suggested that some college admissions departments reject or wait list well-qualified applicants on the assumption that they will not enroll, as a way to boost the college's overall yield rate; according to the report, these actions are part of an effort to improve a college's scores on the US News college ranking.

Yield (multithreading)

In computer science, yield is an action that occurs in a computer program during multithreading, of forcing a processor to relinquish control of the current running thread, and sending it to the end of the running queue, of the same scheduling priority.

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Usage examples of "yield".

But to extend the hypothesis so far as to suppose that species, aboriginally as distinct as carriers, tumblers, pouters, and fantails now are, should yield offspring perfectly fertile, inter se, seems to me rash in the extreme.

And this is the Absolute Ugly: an ugly thing is something that has not been entirely mastered by pattern, that is by Reason, the Matter not yielding at all points and in all respects to Ideal-Form.

For ourselves, while whatever in us belongs to the body of the All should be yielded to its action, we ought to make sure that we submit only within limits, realizing that the entire man is not thus bound to it: intelligent servitors yield a part of themselves to their masters but in part retain their personality, and are thus less absolutely at beck and call, as not being slaves, not utterly chattels.

But Napoleon could not accede to such proposals, for he was always ready to yield to illusion when the truth was not satisfactory to him.

From baryta, which it also resembles, it is distinguished by not yielding an insoluble chromate in an acetic acid solution, by the solubility of its chloride in alcohol, and by the fact that its sulphate is converted into carbonate on boiling with a solution formed of 3 parts of potassium carbonate and 1 of potassium sulphate.

Fifty eggs well fried will yield about five ounces of this oil, which is acrid, and so enduringly liquid that watch-makers use it for lubricating the axles and pivots of their most delicate wheels.

Its stem and leaves yield, when wounded, an acrid milky juice which is popularly applied for destroying warts, and corns.

LEED will not yield significant results unless the surface is scrupulously clean and free from adsorbed gas.

Dyne, his scrawny arms strapped to a pair of Y-shaped branches, eyes girlishly aflutter, feigned to yield his hairless body into the ecstatic admixture of bliss and pain of which he fancied heaven was justly composed.

Chemists have determined that the Agrimony possesses a particular volatile oil, and yields nearly five per cent.

I can run the whole sequence in one pot with about ninety-nine percent yield of the final amantadine derivative.

Not the least curious part of this outcrop is the black thread of iron silicate which, broken in places, subtends it to the east: some specimens have geodes yielding brown powder, and venal cavities lined with botryoidal quartz of amethystine tinge.

One of the strongest instances of an animal apparently performing an action for the sole good of another, with which I am acquainted, is that of aphides voluntarily yielding their sweet excretion to ants: that they do so voluntarily, the following facts show.

She knew the arborescent grasses that yielded the longest and toughest fibers and these she sought and carried to her tree with the spear shaft that was to be.

Church and for us all, not only the archbishopric but ten times as much, if it were possible, you should yield to him.