Arriving home from holiday, I find myself with still just over nine books (nine whole, plus the end of Pride and Prejudice) to read in preparation for my next Open University course, beginning on the 27th of September. Much time and effort must thus go into reading them, to give myself a fair chance of yielding a yet more positive result in this coming course than for the previous one.
Word of the Week
Yield
yield /jiːld/ v. & n. —v. 1 tr. (also absol.) produce or return as a fruit, profit, or result (the land yields crops; the land yields poorly; the investment yields 15%). 2 tr. give up; surrender, concede; comply with a demand for (yielded the fortress; yielded themselves prisoners). 3 intr. (often foll. by to) a surrender; make submission. b give consent or change one's course of action in deference to; respond as required to (yielded to persuasion). 4 intr. (foll. by to) be inferior or confess inferiority to (I yield to none in understanding the problem). 5 intr. (foll. by to) give right of way to other traffic. 6 intr. US allow another the right to speak in a debate etc. —n. an amount yielded or produced; an output or return. [OE g(i)eldan pay f. Gmc]
Definition courtesy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary
