yield

produire, rapporter

Fournir quelque chose, comme des aliments, de l'argent ou des informations utiles.

En anglais simple : To produce something, such as food, money, or useful information.

• The trees yield plenty of fruit.
• Our search yielded useful information.
• Will this investment yield a profit?

Synonymes : produce, provide

Expressions courantes : yield results, yield a profit, yield useful information

céder

Cesser de résister ou donner à quelqu'un ce qu'il demande.

En anglais simple : To stop resisting or give someone what they ask for.

• He refused to yield.
• The council yielded to public pressure.
• Will she yield control to someone else?

Comment l'utiliser : yield to someone/something (The minister refused to yield to pressure.); yield something to someone (She yielded control to her assistant.)

Synonymes : give in, surrender

Contraires : resist

Expressions courantes : yield to pressure, yield control, yield something

céder le passage

Laisser une autre personne ou un autre véhicule passer en premier.

En anglais simple : To let another person or vehicle go first.

• You must yield at this crossing.
• The driver yielded to a cyclist.
• Do buses have to yield here?

Comment l'utiliser : yield to someone/something (Drivers must yield to pedestrians here.)

Synonymes : give way

Expressions courantes : yield to pedestrians, yield to traffic

céder

Se plier, bouger ou se casser sous l'effet d'une force.

En anglais simple : To bend, move, or break because something pushes against it.

• The door would not yield.
• The thin metal yielded under his weight.
• Soft ground yields when you step on it.

Comment l'utiliser : yield to something (The door finally yielded to his weight.); yield under something (The metal yielded under pressure.)

Synonymes : give, give way

Contraires : withstand

Expressions courantes : yield under pressure, yield to force

rendement, production

Quantité d'aliments ou d'autres produits obtenus d'une ferme ou d'un terrain.

En anglais simple : The amount of food or other products that a farm or area of land produces.

• The farm had a good yield.
• Dry weather reduced wheat yields this year.
• How can we increase the milk yield?

Synonymes : output, production

Expressions courantes : crop yield, milk yield, high yield