sit out vs yield

sit out

verb
  • To be away from the table in the midst of an ongoing game, thus automatically placing one's forced bets and otherwise folding every hand when it is one's time to act. 

  • To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance. 

  • To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails. 

  • To escape a hold while face down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position. 

  • To await the cessation of, without taking part. 

yield

verb
  • To give way; to allow another to pass first. 

  • To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. 

  • To produce as a result. 

  • To give, or give forth, (anything). 

  • To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law. 

  • To produce as return, as from an investment. 

  • To give way; to succumb to a force. 

  • To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate. 

  • To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation. 

  • To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. 

noun
  • Profit earned from an investment; return on investment. 

  • A product; the quantity of something produced. 

  • The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuke, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent. 

  • The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond. 

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