Yield vs Desert - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
* Shakespeare:
* Gareth and Lynette, Tennyson :
* Shakespeare:
* Beaumont and Fletcher:
To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
* Milton:
* Bible, Job 24.5:
To give way; to allow another to pass first.
To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
* Shakespeare:
* Milton:
To give way; to succumb to a force.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula), chapter 21:
To produce as return, as from an investment.
(mathematics) To produce as a result.
(engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
(rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
* Milton:
(obsolete) Payment; tribute.
A product; the quantity of something produced.
(legal) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
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, title= (senseid)(usually in plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward
* 1600 , (John Dowland), (Flow My Tears)
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
* A. Hamilton
A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= (label) Any barren place or situation.
* 1858 , William Howitt, Land, Labour, and Gold; Or, Two Years in Victoria (page 54)
* 2006 , Philip N. Cooke, Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls (page 34)
Abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited; usually of a place.
* Bible, Luke ix. 10
* Gray
To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.
To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission.
Yield is a related term of desert.
As nouns the difference between yield and desert
is that yield is (obsolete) payment; tribute while desert is desert.As a verb yield
is (obsolete) to pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.As an adjective desert is
deserted.yield
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) yielden, .Verb
- God 'ild [yield] you!
- The good mother holds me still a child! Good mother is bad mother unto me! A worse were better; yet no worse would I. Heaven yield her for it!
- Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, / And the gods yield you for 't.
- God yield thee, and God thank ye.
- Vines yield nectar.
- The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
- Yield the right of way to pedestrians.
- They refuse to yield to the enemy.
- I'll make him yield the crown.
- Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.
- He turned the handle as he spoke, but the door did not yield . We threw ourselves against it. With a crash it burst open, and we almost fell headlong into the room.
- Historically, that security yields a high return.
- Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
- I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.
Synonyms
* submit - To fully surrender * capitulate - To end all resistance, may imply a compensation with an enemy or to end all resistance because of loss of hope * succumb - To fully surrender, because of helplessness and extreme weakness, to the leader of an opposing force * relent - A yielding because of pity or mercy * defer - A voluntary submitting out of respect, reverence or affection * give way - To succumb to persistent persuasion. * surrender - To give up into the power, control, or possession of another * cede - To give up, give way, give away * give up - To surrender * produce - To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc. * bear - To produce something, such as fruit or crops * supply - To provide (something), to make (something) available for useEtymology 2
From (etyl) , Icelandic gjald. See also (l).Noun
(en noun)The rise of smart beta, passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}
Derived terms
* overyielding * yielder * sustained yield * yield-to-maturity * yield curveSynonyms
* harvest * return * fruits * produce * crop * gainAnagrams
* *desert
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) from the (etyl) deserte, fromNoun
(en noun)- From the highest spire of contentment / my fortune is thrown; / and fear and grief and pain for my deserts / are my hopes, since hope is gone.
- "Nonsense, Mina. It is a shame to me to hear such a word. I would not hear it of you. And I shall not hear it from you. May God judge me by my deserts , and punish me with more bitter suffering than even this hour, if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!"
- His reputation falls far below his desert .
Derived terms
* just desertsEtymology 2
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, / A dreary desert and a gloomy waste.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
- He declared that the country was an intellectual desert ; that he was famishing for spiritual aliment, and for discourse on matters beyond mere nuggets, prospectings, and the price of gold.
- So the question that is commonly asked is, why put a media incubator in a media desert and have it managed by a civil servant?
Adjective
(-)- They were marooned on a desert island in the Pacific.
- He went aside privately into a desert place.
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Derived terms
* desert boot * desert island * desert lynx * desert pavement * desert pea * desert rat * desert soil * desert varnish * desertification * food desert * preach in the desertEtymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- You can't just drive off and desert me here, in the middle of nowhere.
- Anyone found deserting will be shot.