What does yield mean?
Word: Yield
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Yield means to give or bring in something such as a crop or a result. It can also mean to give way, to stop resisting, or to let other traffic go first.
Synonyms: give way, surrender
Antonyms: resist
Word origin: From Old English gieldan, to pay or repay. The later sense of land yielding a crop grew out of this idea of giving something back.
How do you spell yield?
Syllables: yield
Tricky part: The long ee sound is spelt ie, and many students reverse it to yeild.
Watch out for: yeild, yeald
Memory tip: Yield sits in the same family as field and shield: a farmer's field gives a yield, and both are spelt ie before the ld.
Yield in a sentence
Example 1: This year the mango orchard is expected to yield a record harvest.
Example 2: The rusty lock finally yielded after Papa sprayed some oil on it.
Example 3: After a long debate, the team captain yielded to the coach's plan.
Fun Fact
The triangular road sign that tells drivers to let other traffic pass reads YIELD in the USA, while in Britain the same shape carries the words GIVE WAY.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
yield
a) lose
b) consume
c) produce
d) waste
Show answer
c) produce. A farm that yields grapes produces them.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
deyil
a) yodel
b) idly
c) field
d) yield
Show answer
d) yield. Idly is a letter short, and field and yodel each bring in a letter, f or o, that the jumble lacks.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) irrigasion
b) harvist
c) fertilizar
d) yield
Show answer
d) yield. Harvest ends in est, irrigation in tion, and fertiliser in er.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The new paddy seeds should yield a bigger crop if the monsoon arives on time.
a) monsoon
b) crop
c) arives
d) yield
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c) arives. Arrives has a double r.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A farmer says this year's yield was poor. He means ____.
a) the market was closed
b) the weather was very sunny
c) his tractor broke down
d) the crop he harvested was small
Show answer
d) the crop he harvested was small
2. Pick the sentence in which yield means give way.
a) The test yielded clear results.
b) These seeds yield a lot of wheat.
c) The account yields good interest.
d) Cars must yield to people at the zebra crossing.
Show answer
d) Cars must yield to people at the zebra crossing.
