Meanings
present singular third person misyields · participle present misyielding · past misyielded · obsolete past misyold · participle past misyielded · obsolete participle past misyold · obsolete participle past misyolden · alternative mis-yield
- To yield incorrectly, wrongly, badly, or amiss.
A lack of ability of can also advance some eyewitnesss to misyield the side effects of panic disorders to be a case of social anxiety or accomplishance anxiety.
2010, depression2 more examples
He sternly criticised 'pygmean statesmen' who climbed the dizziest heights of power, inevitably resulting in 'misery for the mass', and he deplored the 'misyielding past' looking to the day when injustices would be turned around.
1990, Michael Pollak, Sense & censorshipTo appreciate how YTM can be “mis-yielding,” (misleading), take a look at Exhibit 8-5, which examines a bond purchased at par with 6 percent YTM under varying reinvestment or interest rate assumptions.
2006, Ben Finkelstein, The Politics of Public Fund Investing
alternative mis-yield
- no pluralA bad, wrong, or incorrect yield or product.
On poorer medium soils mixed grain still gives a satisfactory yield where each single component, grown by itself, would often result in a misyield.
1943, Königliche Preussische Landes-Oekonomie-Kollegium, Prussia (Germany). Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Domänen und Forsten, Germany. Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, Landwirtschaftliche Jahrbücher1 more example
In the aforegoing examples the term "misyield" is employed to indicate that portion of the material treated which is not true sink or float material and is considered as a loss unless recycled.
1959, H. Schranz, PROCESS OF REDUCING THE CONSISTENCY OF
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