Yield vs Challenge - What's the difference?
yield | challenge |
(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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A confrontation; a dare.
# An instigation or antagonization intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
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, title= # A bid to overcome something.
#* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 5, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= # (sports) An attempt to take possession; a tackle
#* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Saj Chowdhury, work=BBC Sport
, title= # A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
# The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
(label) A procedure or action.
# (legal, rare) A judge's interest in the result of the case for which he or she should not be allowed to sit the case, e.g. a conflict of interest.
# The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
# The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
# (label) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
(label) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
To invite someone to take part in a competition.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To dare someone.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
To dispute something.
(label) To make a formal objection to a juror.
(label) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
(label) To censure; to blame.
* Holland
(label) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
(label) To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
As verbs the difference between yield and challenge
is that yield is (obsolete) to pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite while challenge is .As a noun yield
is (obsolete) payment; tribute.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
* *challenge
English
(wikipedia challenge)Noun
(en noun)Letters: Say it as simply as possible, passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“
On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle, passage=Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.}}
Verb
(challeng)- By this I challenge him to single fight.
- I challenge any man to make any pretence to power by right of fatherhood.
- Challenge better terms.
- He complained of the emperorfrom them.
