Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Yielding   /jˈildɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Yield  v. t.  (past & past part. yielded; obs. past part. yold; pres. part. 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." "When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength."
2.
To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. "Vines yield nectar." "(He) makes milch kine yield blood." "The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children."
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." "Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame."
4.
To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. "I yield it just, said Adam, and submit."
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." "God yield thee, and God thank ye."
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."


Yield  v. i.  
1.
To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb. "He saw the fainting Grecians yield."
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?"
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?"


adjective
Yielding  adj.  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.
Synonyms: Obsequious; attentive. 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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Yielding" Quotes from Famous Books



... after. The old Rector was gentle, and somewhat overawed Griff by his compassion, and by representations that were only too true; and Parson Frank, with his tender heart torn to pieces, showed symptoms of yielding ...
— Chantry House • Charlotte M. Yonge
... we look at their intellectual level, the women appear distinctly superior. They are more serious; more subtle. With them we do not seem dealing with the rude state of civilization that their husbands belong to .... As a rule, the women seem to have the habit of weighing their acts; of not yielding to momentary impressions. While the sense of Christianity is more developed in them than in their husbands, on the other hand they show more perfidy and art in crime .... One might doubtless prove by a series of examples that the maternal influence when it predominated in the education ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams
... these things only too often. But then, he saw more. He saw the frequent struggle and resistance, as well as the rare yielding to temptation, and he saw also, sometimes, the soul's humiliation, the repentance, ...
— Allison Bain - By a Way she knew not • Margaret Murray Robertson
... his spirit was touched by the spirit of this woman, it had flared up. She was the incarnation of all that he desired. Her hair, her eyes, her form; the tiny tuck or dimple at the corner of her mouth just where a child places its finger; her way of moving, a sort of unconscious swaying or yielding to the air; the tone in her voice, which seemed to come not so much from happiness of her own as from an innate wish to make others happy; and that natural, if not robust, intelligence, which belongs to the very sympathetic, and is rarely found in women of great ambitions or enthusiasms—all ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... in yielding his signature to the charter of 1816, did so upon the ground of the respect due to precedents; and, as he ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com