Fire and Yield

Fire

Fire verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.

Yield and fire are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Yield" instead a verb "Fire".

Nearby Words: fired, fireball, firing, fireside, fireplace

Yield

Yield verb - To give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit).

Fire and yield are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fire" instead a verb "Yield".

Nearby Words: yielding, yielded

How words are described

high high fire high yield
full full fire full yield
normal normal fire normal yield
heavy heavy fire heavy yield
Other adjectives: large, combined, final, magical, nuclear.

Common collocations

energy fire energy yield energy
someone fire someone yield someone
amount fire amount yield amount
number fire number yield number
Other words: time.

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Darius Ascended Glitch: Manually Button Mashing the fire button in Darius Gaiden will yield a much faster rate of fire than the built-in autofire.
  • More Dakka Most ships are armed with relatively low-yield weapons (for sci-fi space warfare) with incredibly high rates of fire.
    Source: More Dakka
  • During the 1950s the United States developed the Davy Crockett recoilless rifle which can fire low-yield nukes (think the Fat Man launcher from Video Game/Fallout and you get the picture).
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