Yield and Yield

[Balagopal Kannampallil]

While learning the basics of Java in 2004, the word which annoyed me the most was Yield

Seriously!!

The only yield I was aware at that time was related to cultivation

Meaning : to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation.
USAGE : This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.

I could neither relate this meaning to the threads concept nor I could accept the actual meaning .

It took me a while to glue in the other meaning to give up, as to superior power or authority into my head.

Anyone had similar experiences??

[Saurabh Pillai]

Yield on Green

[Bear Bibeault]

The verb yield, as to mean relinquish, is in very common use in US English. Certainly no one who drives would have any problem understanding its meaning.

[Paul Clapham]

Bear Bibeault wrote:The verb yield, as to mean relinquish, is in very common use in US English. Certainly no one who drives would have any problem understanding its meaning.

Not North American drivers anyway. In Britain the signs say "Give Way" if I remember correctly, and it's the same in Australia.

[Bear Bibeault]

Paul Clapham wrote:Not North American drivers anyway.

I said, we understood the term, not that we complied with it.

[Balagopal Kannampallil]

As per wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_signs_in_India
'Give way' in India too..(thinking!!! if I have seen or ever used this while driving in India )

Accept with Bear on this. A good driver in US yields daily.