yield(2) (iou) and effective half-life (medicine)

yield(2) (iou)

yield verb. [ji:ld] Pa. t. & pple yielded, yold.

I. Pay, repay.
verb trans.
a. Give in payment, render as due, (a Debt, tax, etc.). OE-M17.
b. Give as due or required (service, thanks, etc.). Formerly also, perform (a promise, a vow). arch. OE.
G. P. R. James Yield him obedience in lawful things.
verb trans. Pay compensation for, make good, (loss or injury). OE-ME.
verb trans. Pay back; give back, restore. Also yield again. OE-M16.
verb trans.
a. Give in return for something received; return (a benefit, injury, etc.). OE-L16.
b. Return (an answer, greeting, etc.). Now only, vouchsafe (an assent). ME.
Shakespeare Measure for Measure Leave me your snatches and yield me a direct answer.
verb trans.
a. Requite or make return for (an action etc.). Freq. in God yield it you. OE-M16.
b. Reward or repay (a person). In later use only in God yield you etc. (a common expression of gratitude or goodwill). Long arch. OE.
Shakespeare Anthony & Cleopatra Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, And the gods yield you for't!
II. Produce, exhibit.
a. verb trans. Produce, bear, generate, (fruit, crops, etc.). Now chiefly, provide (a given amount of produce); bring in (so much revenue). ME.
National Trust Magazine The orchard yielded plums, pears, and apples. A. N. Wilson Father's investments only yielded an income of some 190 per annum. Angler A small E. Anglian stillwater yielded 172 lb of pike. Farmers Weekly The barley yielded more than 4t / acre last year.
b. verb intrans. Bear produce; be productive or fertile. ME.
J. C. Morton Spalding's Prolific Red Wheat..yields remarkably well, and weighs well in the bushel.
c. verb trans. Give as a mathematical result. Now rare. M16.
verb trans.
a. Present, offer. obsolete exc. as passing into Other senses. ME.
S. Purchas Where the holy Trinitie did first yeeld it selfe in sensible apparition to the world.
b. Grant as a favour; bestow. ME.
J. R. Green The King yielded the citizens the right of justice.
c. Exercise (a function, force, etc.); deal (blows), give (battle); execute (a sentence, vengeance). ME-L16.
verb trans. Communicate in speech; esp. declare (a reason etc.). ME-M17.
J. Ussher What reason can you yeeld for this?
verb trans. With compl.: render, make, cause to be. LME-L17.
A. Hall This threat..doth yeelde the Gods amazde and dum.
verb trans. Emit, discharge; utter. obsolete exc. as passing into senses 11a, c. LME.
Bacon Violets..yeeld a pleasing Sent. M. Esslin These difficult plays could be forced to yield their secret.
verb trans.
a. Provide so as to supply a need or serve a purpose. M16.
H. Drummond Two flints struck together yielded fire. R. A. Freeman This soft loam..yields beautifully clear impressions.
b. Give rise to (a state or feeling). Now rare. L16.
A. Bain Curved forms..yield..a certain satisfaction through the muscular sensibility of the eye.
c. Present to view, exhibit. E17-E18.
III. Surrender, give way, submit.
verb trans. Relinquish possession of, surrender (esp. a military position or forces to an enemy); fig. relinquish (a position of advantage etc.); give up. ME.
yield the ghost, yield up the ghost: see GHOST noun. yield one's breath, yield up one's breath arch. die.
A. Davis The overseers of the jail..were not going to yield an inch without a fierce struggle. W. Geldart At the end of the lease the tenant must yield up the premises.
verb trans.
a. Acknowledge (a person or thing) to be or to be; admit that. ME-M18.
Milton I yeild it just, said Adam, and submit.
b. Concede the fact, validity, or cogency of. Now rare. L16.
Steele All which wise Men mean was yielded on both sides by our Lawyers.
refl. Betake oneself, go (to). ME-L16.
verb intrans. & (arch.) refl. Acknowledge defeat in a battle, contest, etc.; submit, surrender, (to). ME.
E. Herbert Genoua also was constrained to yield it self, and shake off the French yoke. E. A. Poe You have conquered and I yield. Ld Macaulay The Whigs..though defeated,..did not yield without an effort.
verb intrans. fig.
a. Give way (to persuasion, entreaty, etc.); submit (to a proposal etc.). Formerly also, consent to do. L15.
C. Stead The worst thing about temptation is..that you want to yield to it. W. S. Churchill He was too ready..to yield to the popular clamour which demanded the recall of an unsuccessful General. J. McGahern Maggie yielded to Moran and stayed.
b. Give way or succumb to an overpowering feeling, condition, influence, etc. L16.
Dickens The child..soon yielded to the drowsiness that came upon her.
a. verb intrans. Give way to or to pressure so as to collapse, bend, crack, etc.; spec. deform inelastically; undergo a large increase in strain without a corresponding increase in stress. (Foll. by to.) M16.
J. le Carre He tugged at the string to break it, but it refused to yield. J. S. Foster Ductile materials which allow them to yield rather than break.
b. Submit to and be affected by some physical action or agent (e.g. pressure, friction, heat, etc.). L18.
Physiological Review Many of the photo-autotrophic organisms have yielded to this treatment.
verb intrans. Be inferior or confess inferiority to. Now chiefly in yield to no one. M16.
Swift Their mutton yields to ours, but their beef is excellent. L. Auchincloss I yield to nobody in admiration of my..wife.
verb intrans. Be deflected from a path or course. L16-E19.
verb intrans. Give precedence (to); spec. (a) US relinquish the floor to another speaker in a debate; (b) (chiefly N. Amer.) give right of way to or to Other traffic. E17.
Comb.: yield sign N. Amer. a road sign instructing vehicles to give way;
yieldable adjective L16.

effective half-life (medicine)

effective half-life
<radiobiology> Time required for a radioactive substance contained in a biological system (such as a person or an animal) to reduce its radioactivity by half, as a combination result of radioactive decay and biological elimination from the system.

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