yield

yield

  /jiːld/

yield vi	(let other traffic pass)	ceder el paso loc verb
	You must yield at this intersection to let other traffic pass.
	Debes ceder el paso en la intersección para dejar pasar a los otros coches.
yield vi	(give way, submit)	ceder⇒ vtr
	He yielded to the pressure of the others and changed the channel.
	Cedió a la presión de los demás, y cambió de canal.
yield n	(amount produced)	cosecha nf
	The yield this year was outstanding for corn farmers.
	La cosecha de este año ha sido destacada para los productores de maíz.
yield n	(finance: amount of gain)	rédito nm
		interés nm
	The yield on these bonds is 3%.
Additional Translations
yield vi	(bend under pressure) bajo el peso	ceder⇒ vi
	You could see the steel beam yielding under the great weight of the building.
	Se puede ver como cede la viga bajo la presión del edificio.
yield vi	(agriculture: produce) agricultura	producir⇒ vtr
	This farm yielded very well this year.
	La granja ha producido mucho este año.
yield vi	(allow to speak)	ceder la palabra loc verb
	I yield to the esteemed senator from Colorado.
	Le cedo la palabra al estimado senador por Colorado.
yield vtr	(surrender) armas	rendir⇒ vtr
	The army yielded its weapons to the enemy.
	El ejército rindió sus armas al enemigo.
yield vtr	(admit another's superiority) una postura	abandonar⇒ vtr
	I have to yield my argument. You are right.
	Tengo que abandonar mi postura. Tienes razón.
yield vtr	(agriculture: produce)	producir⇒ vtr
	The farm yielded a good crop of potatoes.
	La granja produjo una gran cosecha de patatas.
yield vtr	(finance: produce) financiero	producir⇒, dar⇒ vtr
		dar⇒ vtr
		rendir⇒ vtr
	The investment yielded a strong return.
	La inversión produjo grandes beneficios.
	La inversión dio un gran resultado.
	La inversión rindió un gran resultado.

Compound Forms:
crop yield n	(agricultural output)	rendimiento de la cosecha nm
	Si se utiliza semilla híbrida el rendimiento de la cosecha es mayor.
	Argentina	rinde nm
	Llovió poco y el rinde fue mucho menor.
high-yield, high yield adj	(finance: giving large return)	altamente provechosoloc adj
Note: hyphen omitted when term is an adjective after a noun
		muy rentable loc adj
Note: hyphen omitted when term is an adjective after a noun
	Es un negocio que requiere una mínima inversión y resulta muy rentable.
high-yield, high yield adj	(crops: producing bountifully ) Argentina	de alto rinde loc adj
	Son semillas híbridas más caras, pero de muy alto rinde.
quantum absorption yield		límite de absorción cuántica
quantum yield		rendimiento cuántico
quantum yield		límite cuántico
yield curve n	(finance: a graph showing yield of securities with different maturity dates)	curva de rendimiento nf
yield loss n	(finance: decrease in profit from investments)	perdida de rendimiento o rentabilidad nf
yield loss n	(agriculture: crop loss )	pérdida de cosecha nf
yield point		límite de elasticidad
yield rate n	(finance: return as percentage of total investment)	rendimiento nm
	com	rentabilidad nf
	La rentabilidad de esa inversión es muy baja.
yield strength		resistencia del material a la conformación
yield stress		límite de fluencia
yield to vtr	(give in to, surrender to)	ceder el paso vtr
	At a four-way stop, you must yield to the car to your right.
	Los automovilistas deben ceder el paso a los peatones pero rara vez lo hacen.
yield to maturity		rendimiento al vencimiento
yield trendsnpl	(finance: fluctuations in percentage paid on investments )	variación de la rentabilidad nf
yield trends n	(agriculture: fluctuations in quantity of crops produced and available for sale)	variación de rendimiento (en la cosecha) nf
	Las variaciones de rendimiento del café se deben este año a las malas condiciones climáticas.

Allotted

• Allotted means given as a share of something. Hopefully you will be happy with your allottedshare of candy on Halloween.

  Something that's allotted is distributed, or shared, like your allotted number of pizza slices. It can also mean your share of a job; on family clean-up day, your allotted task could be taking out the garbage. The Germanic word loter, "lot" or "share," is at the root of allotted. A plus loter form the Old French aloter, "to divide into lots." When you're spelling allotted remember to double up the ls and the ts.

  DEFINITIONS OF:allotted

  1

  adjgiven as a task

  “her allotted chores”

  Synonyms

  assigned

  appointed to a post or duty

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• Republicans have prolonged the Senate debate by rejecting requests to yield back allotted time.
  Reuters Dec 13, 2013
• In the case of Ms. Pillard, the amount of time allotted was 30 hours.
  New York Times Dec 12, 2013
• First, the agency determines whether an upwind state is responsible for at least 1 percent of any downwind state’s allotted amount for a pollutant.
  Slate Dec 9, 2013
• Inside, athletes and coaches sleep in a single room, each manallotted his own bunk.
  Slate Dec 6, 2013

chime in

When you chime in, you offer your opinion or add your voice to a conversation. If your friends are discussing where to go for dinner, you could chime in, "Anywhere but Olive Garden!"

Some students are quick to chime in during classes, answering the teacher's questions and asking their own as well. When you attend a lecture by a famous writer, it's appropriate to chime in during question and answer sessions, but it's not okay to chime in while she's reading aloud from her latest book. Chime inoriginally meant "to join harmoniously in music."

DEFINITIONS OF:chime in

1

vbreak into a conversation

“her husband always chimes in, even when he is not involved in the conversation”

Synonyms:

barge in, break in, butt in, chisel in, cut in, put in

Types:

disrupt, interrupt

interfere in someone else's activity

cut in

interrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner

cut short

cause to end earlier than intended

Type of:

break up, cut off, disrupt, interrupt

make a break in

German bond yields held near seven-week highs in anticipation of the Fed meeting, chiming in with a rise in U.S. Treasury yields overnight

yields: rentabilidad --------------------------  the yield of an asset

hold held held: mantenerse

The FED: the federal reserve

chime /tʃaɪm/n

1. an individual bell or the sound it makes when struck
2. (often plural) the machinery employed to sound a bell in this way
3. 
   Also called: bell a percussion instrument consisting of a set of vertical metal tubes of graduated length, suspended in a frame and struck with a hammer
4. agreement; concord

vb

1. to sound (a bell) or (of a bell) to be sounded by a clapper or hammer
2. to produce (music or sounds) by chiming
3. (transitive) to indicate or show (time or the hours) by chiming
4. (intransitive) followed by with: to agree or harmonize

out of the blue

When something happens out of the blue, it is a complete surprise. If you get a phone callout of the blue from an old friend, it's utterly unexpected.

Use the phrase out of the blue when you need a casual way to describe something that surprises you and possibly seems to come from nowhere. Your parents might announce, out of the blue, that they're moving to Mexico, for example. Another way to say out of the blue is from the clear blue sky. Both raise the image of something solid emerging magically from the sky.

DEFINITIONS OF:out of the blue

1

adjnot anticipated

“like a bolt out of the blue”

Synonyms:

unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for

unexpected

not expected or anticipated

advin a way that was not expected

“her brother showed up at the wedding out of the blue”

Synonyms:

unexpectedly

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out of the blue

the "out of the blue" family

USAGE EXAMPLES

• Mr Butler said the offer "came out of the blue" by a man who was "just so appalled at what happened".
  BBC Dec 14, 2013
• Out of the blue, he said, Mao turned up dressed in pajamas and a winter topcoat to pay respects to his father.
  New York Times Dec 7, 2013
• “They thought I was still in contact with Everton, but I told them you contacted me out of the blue.”
  New York Times Dec 4, 2013
• The victim told prosecutor Paul Kearney that the abuse began early in her pregnancy and was like "a blot out of the blue".
  BBC Nov 8, 2013

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to gauge public opinion

gauge 

 /geɪdʒ/

1	n	a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
2	nv	accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
3	v	adapt to a specified measurement If you ask your friend, "How do you feel, generally, about loaning your car to people?" your intention might be to gauge his reaction before you flat-out ask if you can borrow his car. To gauge is to measure or test. The verb gauge means to estimate or measure, while the noun gauge is a tool you can use to make such a measurement. If you've ever seen someone check the air pressure in a tire, the instrument she used was called a tire gauge. The thickness, or diameter, of an item like wire (or the barrel of a gun) is another meaning of gauge.

fancy bumping into you¡¡

fancy bumping into you! ¡qué casualidad encontrarte aquí!

Bounced check

Definition of bounced check:

 A check which a bank returns because it is not payable due to insufficient funds. also called 

rubber check.


I'm not surprised the cheque bounced. He's up to his eyes in debt.

the ball ricocheted in the air and was intercepted by jack.

• A projectile that bounces off another surface is said to ricochet. You missed when you threw your crumpled paper at the wastepaper basket. Instead, the paper ricocheted off the wall and hit your brother on the head. The battle was on!

ricochet

1

vspring back; spring away from an impact

Synonyms:

bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate,spring, take a hop

Types:

kick, kick back, recoil

spring back, as from a forceful thrust

bound off, skip

bound off one point after another

carom

rebound after hitting

Type of:

bound, jump, leap, spring

move forward by leaps and bounds

na glancing rebound

Synonyms:

carom

Type of:

backlash, rebound, recoil, repercussion

a movement back from an impact

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• The ball ricocheted in the air and was intercepted by Buffalo’s Kiko Alonso.
  Washington Post Sep 30, 2013
• As Carter deflected the pass, it ricocheted backward and bounced off his heel.
  New York Times Sep 16, 2013
• It echoed around the globe, and ricocheted through another conservative community in the north - with surprising results.

I think it all boils down to money

BOIL DOWN..... al final todo se reduce a...

the safety of passengers was uppermost in our minds

• Perhaps the closest analogy is comet Lovejoy, which in 2011 passed through the uppermost reaches of the solar atmosphere and emerged mostly intact.
  Scientific American Nov 30, 2013
• The mission's primary objective is to separate Earth's geomagnetic field from the magnetic field induced in the uppermostmagnetosphere by the Sun's charged particles.
  Scientific American Nov 22, 2013
• For now it is the threats that appear uppermost in the thinking of the Islamic Republic, as it surveys its diminished economy and regional upheaval.
  Reuters Sep 30, 2013
• For the roll of a dice, whereby the cube must end up with one of six faces uppermost, equals six.
  Nature Sep 12, 2013

they allow 20% of the fields to lie fallow each year

fallow

1

adjleft unplowed and unseeded during a growing season

“fallow farmland”

Synonyms

unbroken, unploughed, unplowed

(of farmland) not plowed

adjundeveloped but potentially useful

“a fallow gold market”

Synonyms

undeveloped, unexploited

undeveloped or unused

ncultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons

Type of:

cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tillage,tilled land, tilth

arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops

lie fallow 

1. Lit. [for farmland] to exist unplanted for a period of time. The fields lay fallow under the burning sun. It had been too wet to plant last spring.

2. Fig. [for a skill and talent] to remain unused and neglected. You should not let your talent lie fallow. Practice the piano before you forget how to play it. His writing had lain fallow for so long that he could hardly write a proper sentence.

See also: lie