yielding

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There was research done in California to determine if such yielding could be used to control stresses on the San Andreas fault.

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Quick take

a verbal act of admitting defeat

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of yielding gathered in one view.

noun

a verbal act of admitting defeat

noun

the act of conceding or yielding

adjective

inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for yielding.

noun

a verbal act of admitting defeat

noun

the act of conceding or yielding

adjective

inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person"

adjective

lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure; "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber"

adjective

tending to give in or surrender or agree; "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"- V.I.Parrington

Example sentences

There was research done in California to determine if such yielding could be used to control stresses on the San Andreas fault.

Started with just 100 people testing private builds for 6 months and then moved on to a public beta for another 6, altogether yielding about 15,000 installs.

It also puts the same thing the other way 'round: if the wing is to hold the airplane up in the fluid, ever-yielding air, it can do so only by pushing the air down.

Then you can start looking for a solid high yielding company, borrow %50, effectively doubling your yield... don't forget to buy some put options to cover your long position in case it crashes.

A dreamer with demands, and the demands are concrete in the respect that they may be technically possible while still being dreams - be they Mars at 500K or yielding 10x the mechanical properties.

Having been there at the time, IE on Mac was the best browser on that system at the time, by far. Netscape 4 looked like a bloated piece of crap that emulated random bits of Appearance Manager, crashed constantly, and had a nasty tendency of not yielding the event loop, which effectively locked the system.

Abject confusion, combined with a belief that Perl can be used to demonstrate functional concepts, yielding incomprehensible conclusions.

At Kent State, you had 13 seconds of shooting by 29 national guardsmen resulting in 4 deaths, with no investigation yielding the suggestion that it was sanctioned by anybody higher up.

They decided that genetic engineering was going to save the world by adding micro-nutrients to rice, by making essential food crops drought resistant and higher yielding, et cetera.

To expedite population recovery, rim eggs were repositioned inside nests, yielding viable hatchlings.

Trying to eschew politics is merely following a policy of not caring, and yielding power to those who openly espouse politics.> Facebook should be a protocol, not a service.

It was actually yielding some really interesting information, in particular the higher proportion of non-straight people than is normal in the general population.

In fact, it is quite the contrary, poor people, rich people, all people are better off because Bill Gates and Microsoft brought computing to the masses, yielding untold magnitudes of increased productivity and more affordable goods of every stripe.