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YIELDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of conceding or yielding
Synonyms:
conceding; concession; yielding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("yielding" is a kind of...):
acquiescence; assent (agreement with a statement or proposal to do something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yielding"):
bye; pass (an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent)
Derivation:
yield (be willing to concede)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A verbal act of admitting defeat
Synonyms:
giving up; surrender; yielding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("yielding" is a kind of...):
relinquishing; relinquishment (a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.)
Derivation:
yield (consent reluctantly)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tending to give in or surrender or agree
Example:
too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments
Classified under:
Similar:
compromising; conciliatory; flexible (making or willing to make concessions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure
Example:
a deep yielding layer of foam rubber
Classified under:
Similar:
soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Inclined to yield to argument or influence or control
Example:
a timid yielding person
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
docile (willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb yield
Context examples:
In other words, the ‘brrr-hm’ call more than tripled the chances of a successful interaction, yielding honey for the humans and wax for the bird, says Spottiswoode.
(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
None of the six storms showed signs of yielding to allow other cyclones to join in.
(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)
I imagined I saw a mixture of many feelings: a great, though short struggle; half a wish of yielding to truths, half a sense of shame, but habit, habit carried it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
My foot struck something yielding—it was a sleeper's leg; and he turned and groaned, but without awaking.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It is, I believe, too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Beneath lay a broad carpet of the softest and greenest moss, flecked over with fallen leaves, but yielding pleasantly to the foot of the traveller.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Until now, astronomers have been unable to pin down the galactic masses, with a lack of data and complex calculations yielding very uncertain answers.
(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The mission ended in 2003, but newly resurrected data from Galileo’s first flyby of Ganymede is yielding new insights about the moon’s environment — which is unlike any other in the solar system.
(Fresh Results from NASA’s Galileo Spacecraft 20 Years On, NASA)
