“yield” – English explanatory dictionary

noun 1. the interest produced by an investment ○ The yield on these bonds is higher than average. 2. the quantity of a crop or a product produced from a plant or from an area of land ○ What is the normal yield per hectare? ■ verb 1. to produce money ○ The investment has yielded a good interest until now. 2. to produce a crop or a product ○ This variety of rice can yield up to 2 tonnes per hectare. ○ The North Sea oil deposits yield 100,000 barrels a month. 3. to produce a result ○ Their researches finally yielded the information they were looking for. 4. □ to yield to someone to give up, to give way □ to yield to another car (of traffic) to allow another car to go first □ to yield to pressure or temptation to give in to pressure or temptation ○ The government yielded to pressure from the unions and did not proceed with the planned legislation. 5. (of material.) to bend ○ We need a stiff material, something that will not yield.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yielded; obs. p. p. Yold p. pr. & vb. n. Yielding.] [OE. yelden, &yogh;elden, &yogh;ilden, AS. gieldan, gildan, to pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be worth, gälda to pay, Goth. gildan in fragildan, usgildan. Cf. 1st Geld, Guild.]
1. To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as money at interest yields six or seven per cent. “To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent.” Chaucer. “When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength.” Gen. iv. 12.
2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. ´Vines yield nectar.´ Milton. “[He] makes milch kine yield blood.” Shak. “The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.” Job xxiv. 5.
3. To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc. “And, force perforce, I’ll make him yield the crown.” Shak. “Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.” Milton.
4. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. “I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.” Milton.
5. To permit; to grant; as to yield passage.
6. To give a reward to; to bless. [Obs.] Chaucer. “Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,
And the gods yield you for ’t.” Shak. “God yield thee, and God thank ye.” Beau. & Fl. To yield the breath, the ghost, or the life, to die; to expire; — often followed by up. “One calmly yields his willing breath.” Keble.

v. i. 1. To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb. “He saw the fainting Grecians yield.” Dryden.
2. To comply with; to assent; as I yielded to his request.
3. To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded. “Will ye relent,
And yield to mercy while ’t is offered you?” Shak.
4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as they will yield to us in nothing. “Nay tell me first, in what more happy fields
The thistle springs, to which the lily yields?” Pope.

n. Amount yielded; product; — applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation. ´A goodly yield of fruit doth bring.´ Bacon.