Yielding

Definition

yield /ji:ld/ v ၁။ ျဖစ္ထြန္းသည္။ ထြက္ရိွသည္။ trees that no longer yield fruit ❍ investment accounts yielding high interest ❍ research that yields new insights into animal behaviour. ၂။ ~ (to sb/sth) ေလွ်ာ့ေပးသည္။ အ႐ံႈးေပးသည္။ The town was forced to yield after a long siege. ❍ The government has not yielded to public opinion. ❍ She yielded to temptation and had another chocolate. ၃။ ~ sb/sth (up) (to sb) ( fml ) (က) မေက်မနပ္ အေလွ်ာ့ေပးသည္။ The terrorists have yielded two of their hostages (up) to the police. (ခ) ထုတ္ေဖာ္ သည္။ The universe is slowly yielding up its secrets to scientists. ၄။ (ဖိအားေၾကာင့္) ေကြးသည္၊ က်ဳိးသည္၊ ပြင့္သည္ စသည္။ Despite all our attempts to break it open, the lock would not yield. ❍ The dam eventually yielded and collapsed under the weight of water. ၅။ ~ (to sb/sth) ( esp US ) လမ္းဦးစား ေပးသည္။ Drivers joining the freeway must yield to traffic in the outside lane. ၆။ ~ to sth ေပးလိုက္ရသည္။ ပါသြားသည္။ Increasingly, farm land is yielding to property development. n [U, C] ထြက္ရိွသည့္ပမာဏ။ a good/ high/ poor yield of wheat ❍ What is the yield per acre? ❍ the annual milk yield. ❏ yielding adj ၁။ တစ္ပါးအလိုကိုလိုက္ေသာ။ She lay soft and yielding in his arms. ၂။ ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္းေသာ။

Examples

1. Knowing about our past does not automatically yield solutions to our current problems.
2. [yield results/benefits] : The search for truth is beginning to yield fruitful results.
3. The combined investment is expected to yield £5
4. 000 in the first year.
5. [yield a profit/return] : This figure could yield a return high enough to provide a healthy pension.
6. [yield to] : The sport should not yield to every demand that the television companies make.
7. [yield to] : He paused a moment before yielding to angry resentment.
8. The following year
9. control of the industry was yielded to the government.
10. We struggled with the lid
11. but it wouldn’t yield.