YIELDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yielding mean? 

• YIELDING (noun)
  The noun YIELDING has 2 senses:

1. a verbal act of admitting defeat

2. the act of conceding or yielding

  Familiarity information: YIELDING used as a noun is rare.

• YIELDING (adjective)
  The adjective YIELDING has 3 senses:

1. inclined to yield to argument or influence or control

2. lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure

3. tending to give in or surrender or agree

  Familiarity information: YIELDING used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YIELDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A verbal act of admitting defeat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

giving up; surrender; yielding

Hypernyms ("yielding" is a kind of...):

relinquishing; relinquishment (a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.)

Derivation:

yield (consent reluctantly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of conceding or yielding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

conceding; concession; yielding

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)

• YIELDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inclined to yield to argument or influence or control

Context example:

a timid yielding person

Similar:

docile (willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure

Context example:

a deep yielding layer of foam rubber

Similar:

soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Tending to give in or surrender or agree

Context example:

too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments

Similar:

compromising; conciliatory; flexible (making or willing to make concessions)

 Context examples 

One thing more, I had to do, before yielding myself to the shock of these emotions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A semi-solid composed of a solid, three dimensional, cross linked matrix of polymers within a liquid, yielding a jelly-like material unable to flow at steady state.

(Gel Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, 18F-fluoromethylcholine incorporates into tumor cells through an active, carrier-mediated transport mechanism for choline and then is phosphorylated intracellularly by choline kinase, an enzyme frequently upregulated in human tumors, yielding phosphoryl 18F-fluoromethylcholine.

(fluorine F 18 fluoromethylcholine, NCI Thesaurus)

In vivo, Kethoxal reacts with 30S ribosomal subunits yielding inactive ribosomes.

(Kethoxal, NCI Thesaurus)

Then he felt her body yielding, and once again she was close in his arms and lips were pressed on lips.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Her expression became frantic as she spoke; and, he yielding to her, she pulled him down sitting on the bed side, and clung to him fiercely.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He had travelled a greater distance than the other dogs in the yielding of himself to the rule of the gods, and he had learned more thoroughly the futility of opposing their will.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They reproduce very quickly, yielding large amounts of oil and biomass.

(Brazilian researchers identify microalgae that can provide biofuels, Agência Brasil)

Any DNA sequence rearrangement in which double-stranded DNA from a donor molecule is incorporated into host DNA by the action of an integrase, yielding a single, stable, replication-competent, double-stranded DNA product.

(DNA Integration, NCI Thesaurus)

This is because their short lifespans allow for scientists to observe several generations of worms within a short period of time, yielding quicker results for studies.

(Roundworms have the Right Stuff, NASA)