yield

producir, dar

Producir o aportar algo, como alimentos, dinero o información útil.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Sinónimos: produce, provide

Expresiones frecuentes: yield results, yield a profit, yield useful information

ceder

Dejar de resistirse o dar a alguien lo que pide.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Cómo se usa: yield to someone/something (The minister refused to yield to pressure.); yield something to someone (She yielded control to her assistant.)

Sinónimos: give in, surrender

Antónimos: resist

Expresiones frecuentes: yield to pressure, yield control, yield something

ceder el paso

Dejar que otra persona o vehículo pase primero.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Cómo se usa: yield to someone/something (Drivers must yield to pedestrians here.)

Sinónimos: give way

Expresiones frecuentes: yield to pedestrians, yield to traffic

ceder

Doblarse, moverse o romperse por la fuerza que algo ejerce.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: yield to something (The door finally yielded to his weight.); yield under something (The metal yielded under pressure.)

Sinónimos: give, give way

Antónimos: withstand

Expresiones frecuentes: yield under pressure, yield to force

rendimiento, producción

Cantidad de alimentos u otros productos que produce una granja o un terreno.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Sinónimos: output, production

Expresiones frecuentes: crop yield, milk yield, high yield