Yield vs Deny - What's the difference?
yield | deny |
(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= To not allow.
* 1847 , Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey Chapter XVI
To assert that something is not true.
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To disallow
to refuse to give or grant something to someone
* J. Edwards
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(sports) To prevent from scoring.
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* Bancroft
* Keble
(obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).
* Shakespeare
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between yield and deny
is that yield is (obsolete) payment; tribute while deny is (obsolete) to refuse (to do or accept something).In lang=en terms the difference between yield and deny
is that yield is to give way; to succumb to a force while deny is to refuse to give or grant something to someone.As verbs the difference between yield and deny
is that yield is (obsolete) to pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite while deny is to not allow.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
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Derived terms
* overyielding * yielder * sustained yield * yield-to-maturity * yield curveSynonyms
* harvest * return * fruits * produce * crop * gainAnagrams
* *deny
English
Verb
(en-verb)- I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied .
- 'Do! pray do! I shall be the most miserable of men if you don't. You cannot be so cruel as to deny me a favour so easily granted and yet so highly prized!' pleaded he as ardently as if his life depended on it.
- I deny that I was at the party.
- Everyone knows he committed the crime, but he still denies it.
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- My father denied me a good education.
- To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.
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- the falsehood of denying his opinion
- thou thrice denied , yet thrice beloved
- if you deny to dance
