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Y-EELD/jiːld/

To yield is to produce a result, crop, or profit; also to give way or surrender: yield a finding, yield to the chair. Produce is everyday in the crop sense; a rounded abstract is not a count.

Meaning

To produce a result, crop, or profit; also to give way or surrender.

Examples

• “Yield the n from the raw file; a rounded abstract is not a count.”
• “Produce is everyday. Surrender is the give-way twin. A rounding is talk. A cell is a count. Put the raw number in; then round in the codebook if the rule still allows it.”

Good to know

Produce, or give way. Everyday: produce. A rounded abstract ≠ a count.

Near in meaning

produce, surrender, give way

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