Yielding can be categorized as a noun, a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| yielding - tending to give in or surrender or agree; "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"- V.I.Parrington | ||
| yielding - lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure; "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber" | ||
| yielding - inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person" | ||
Verb |
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| yield - bring in; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?" | ||
| yield - be the cause or source of; "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information" | ||
| yield - consent reluctantly | ||
| yield - cease opposition; stop fighting | ||
| yield - give in, as to influence or pressure | ||
| yield - 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" | ||
| yield - be willing to concede; "I grant you this much" | ||
| yield - give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | ||
| yield - be flexible under stress of physical force; "This material doesn't give" | ||
| yield - cause to happen or be responsible for; "His two singles gave the team the victory" | ||
| yield - be fatally overwhelmed | ||
| yield - move in order to make room for someone for something; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd" | ||
| yield - end resistance, as under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram" | ||
Noun |
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| yield - an amount of a product | ||
| yield - the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%" | ||
| yield - production of a certain amount | ||
| yield - the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time); "production was up in the second quarter" |
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| 1. | adj. | Too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments. | |
| 2. | adj. | A deep yielding layer of foam rubber. | |
| 3. | adj. | A timid yielding person. | |
| 4. | adj. | It's a sharp axe, but the branch is not yielding. | |
| 5. | noun | Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding. | |
| 6. | noun | He made every effort to avoid yielding to the temptation to start drinking again. | |
| 7. | noun | And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done. | |
| 8. | noun | Stock investments do not always yield profit. | |
| 9. | noun | How much wheat does each field yield? | |
| 10. | noun | A 6% yield is guaranteed on the investment. | |
| 11. | noun | The company shares give a high yield. | |
| 12. | noun | I'd rather die than yield to this sort of demand. | |
| 13. | noun | I would rather die than yield. | |
| 14. | noun | Our land gave a high yield this year. | |
| 15. | noun | The yield on the bond is 6%. | |
| 16. | noun | The new production process achieves a high yield. | |
| 17. | noun | You had better yield to your teacher's advice. | |
| 18. | noun | They obtained a yield of 8 percent on their investment. | |
| 19. | noun | When in the barn the heating fails, cubic shape the milk yield takes. | |
| 20. | verb | That daimyo holds a fief yielding 100,000 koku of rice. | |
| 21. | verb | I've heard barley is yielding fruit in Sisku's field. | |
| 22. | verb | He went out, yielding to a sudden impulse. | |
| 23. | verb | Temptations can be got rid of. How? By yielding to them. | |
| 24. | verb | The Tyrians, yielding to the god, abate / their fierceness. Dido, more than all the rest, / warms to her Phrygian friends, and wears a kindly breast. | |
| 25. | verb | Lady Stair, a woman accustomed to universal submission, for even her husband did not dare to contradict her, treated this objection as a trifle, and insisted upon her daughter yielding her consent to marry the new suitor, David Dunbar, son and heir to David Dunbar of Baldoon, in Wigtonshire. | |
| 26. | verb | Law is yielding: where you desire, there it goes. | |
| 27. | verb | "Ay," said Sancho; "it must be that some of your worship's shrewdness sticks to me; land that, of itself, is barren and dry, will come to yield good fruit if you dung it and till it>> | |
| 28. | verb | Patients often die simply because they yield to their diseases. | |
| 29. | verb | We had to yield to their request. | |
| 30. | verb | Don't yield to any temptation. | |
| 31. | verb | We will never yield to force. | |
| 32. | verb | I did not yield to such a rule. | |
| 33. | verb | I yield to no one in abhorrence of violence. | |
| 34. | verb | I'll stand up for what I believe in and won't yield to any threats. |
| Sentence | |
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| adj. | |
| Too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments. |
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| A deep yielding layer of foam rubber. |
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| A timid yielding person. |
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| It's a sharp axe, but the branch is not yielding. | |
| noun | |
| Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding. | |
| He made every effort to avoid yielding to the temptation to start drinking again. | |
| And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done. | |
| Stock investments do not always yield profit. | |
| How much wheat does each field yield? | |
| A 6% yield is guaranteed on the investment. | |
| The company shares give a high yield. | |
| I'd rather die than yield to this sort of demand. | |
| I would rather die than yield. | |
| Our land gave a high yield this year. | |
| The yield on the bond is 6%. | |
| The new production process achieves a high yield. | |
| You had better yield to your teacher's advice. | |
| They obtained a yield of 8 percent on their investment. | |
| When in the barn the heating fails, cubic shape the milk yield takes. | |
| verb | |
| That daimyo holds a fief yielding 100,000 koku of rice. | |
| I've heard barley is yielding fruit in Sisku's field. | |
| He went out, yielding to a sudden impulse. | |
| Temptations can be got rid of. How? By yielding to them. | |
| The Tyrians, yielding to the god, abate / their fierceness. Dido, more than all the rest, / warms to her Phrygian friends, and wears a kindly breast. | |
| Lady Stair, a woman accustomed to universal submission, for even her husband did not dare to contradict her, treated this objection as a trifle, and insisted upon her daughter yielding her consent to marry the new suitor, David Dunbar, son and heir to David Dunbar of Baldoon, in Wigtonshire. | |
| Law is yielding: where you desire, there it goes. | |
| "Ay," said Sancho; "it must be that some of your worship's shrewdness sticks to me; land that, of itself, is barren and dry, will come to yield good fruit if you dung it and till it>> |
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| Patients often die simply because they yield to their diseases. | |
| We had to yield to their request. | |
| Don't yield to any temptation. | |
| We will never yield to force. | |
| I did not yield to such a rule. | |
| I yield to no one in abhorrence of violence. | |
| I'll stand up for what I believe in and won't yield to any threats. | |