Yield vs Wait - What's the difference?
yield | wait |
(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= To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by "wait for".)
* Dryden
* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 30:
To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
* (John Milton)
* (John Dryden)
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait .}}
(US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
(obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
* Dryden
* Rowe
(obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
(obsolete) To defer or postpone (a meal).
A delay.
An ambush.
* Milton
(obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
(in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
(in the plural, archaic, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
* (rfdate)
* (rfdate)
As a verb yield
is (obsolete) to pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.As a noun yield
is (obsolete) payment; tribute.As an adjective wait is
far.As an adverb wait is
far.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
* *wait
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, / And wait with longing looks their promised guide.
- The Court had assembled, to wait events, in the huge antechamber known as the Œil de Boeuf.
- They also serve who only stand and wait .
- Haste, my dear father; 'tis no time to wait .
- He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all / His warlike troops, to wait the funeral.
- Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, / And everlasting anguish be thy portion.
- to wait dinner
Usage notes
* In sense 1, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* (delay until event) hold one's breathDerived terms
* can't wait * wait staff * wait state * wait for * wait on * wait tables * waiter * waiting room * waitperson * waitress * waitronNoun
(en noun)- I had a very long wait at the airport security check.
- They laid in wait for the patrol.
- an enemy in wait
- (Halliwell)
- Hark! are the waits abroad?
- The sound of the waits , rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.
