Crossword clues for yielding
yielding
- Give or supply
- Be the cause or source of
- A verbal act of admitting defeat
- Stop fighting
- Give over
- Cease opposition
- Giving way
- County finally away from the crease, dismissing opener and conceding
- Diligently ignoring timeline in order to be flexible
- Giving up
- Giving the right of way
- Producing income or crops
- Soft to the touch
- End resistance, esp. under pressure or force
- Bring about
- As of investments
- Bring in
- Consent reluctantly
- Be fatally overwhelmed
- Be willing to concede
- Be flexible under stress of physical force
- Move in order to make room for someone for something
- Give in, as to influence or pressure
- Surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.
--Milton. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
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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.
Yielding \Yield"ing\, a. Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper.
Yielding and paying (Law), the initial words of that clause
in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is
mentioned and reserved.
--Burrill.
Syn: Obsequious; attentive.
Usage: Yielding, Obsequious, Attentive. In many cases a man may be attentive or yielding in a high degree without any sacrifice of his dignity; but he who is obsequious seeks to gain favor by excessive and mean compliances for some selfish end. [1913 Webster] -- Yield"ing*ly, adv. -- Yield"ing*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "generous in rewarding," present participle adjective from yield (v.). From 1660s as "giving way to physical force."
Wiktionary
docile, or inclined to give way to pressure. n. A concession. v
(present participle of yield English)
WordNet
adj. inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person"
lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure; "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber"
tending to give in or surrender or agree; "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"- V.I.Parrington
n. a verbal act of admitting defeat [syn: giving up, surrender]
the act of conceding or yielding [syn: concession, conceding]
Usage examples of "yielding".
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.
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.
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.
I eyed it wistfully for a moment, and then, unable any longer to stand on ceremony, plunged my hand into the yielding mass, and to the boisterous mirth of the natives drew it forth laden with the poee-poee, which adhered in lengthy strings to every finger.
He came in and told me that the nobleman, his master, was in a great hurry to get to London, and that I should oblige him very much by yielding the boat to him.
Round the table of citrean wood, highly polished and delicately wrought with silver arabesques, were placed the three couches, which were yet more common at Pompeii than the semicircular seat that had grown lately into fashion at Rome: and on these couches of bronze, studded with richer metals, were laid thick quiltings covered with elaborate broidery, and yielding luxuriously to the pressure.
Chemically the Potato contains citric acid, like that of the lemon, which is admirable against scurvy: also potash, which is equally antiscorbutic, and phosphoric acid, yielding phosphorus in a quantity less only than that afforded by the apple, and by wheat.
Sanguinaria, yielding a substance called sanguinarin, now rivals colchicine as an evolution chemical.
The Rossland, the Boundary and the Kootenay districts are the chief centres of vein-mining, yielding auriferous and cupriferous sulphide ores, as well as large quantities of silver-bearing lead ores.
In yielding to this reverie, renewed and deepened desires to be one awakens within them.
Whenever I obeyed a spontaneous impulse, whenever I did anything of a sudden, I thought I was following the laws of my destiny, and yielding to a supreme will.
Nitrites are distinguished from nitrates by effervescing and yielding brown fumes when treated with a little dilute sulphuric acid.
As they lay in the dark, wrapped in their blankets of spider silk, on thick mattresses of pleasantly scented foxtail grass -- which, unlike the esparto of the desert, was yielding and springy -- Veig tried to argue them into staying there for another week.
The scant regulars who still patronized the Broken Spar looked up from their drinks in a pickled haze, the silent misery on their faces yielding to fear as Gell MarBoreth, Knight of the Lily, swaggered in.