yield

verb

1. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

   “This method generally yields better results.”

   “The new variety of potatoes yields 20% more.”

   “The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.”

   “[…] We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never / Yields us kind answer.”

   “Vines yield nectar.”

2. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

   “Historically, that security yields a high return.”

3. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

   “Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.”

4. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

   “Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.”

5. (obsolete)To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

   “God 'ild [yield] you, sir!”

   “Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, / And the gods yield you for 't.”

   “God yield thee, and God thank ye.”

   “Heaven yield her for it, but in me put force / To weary her ears with one continuous prayer, / Until she let me fly discaged to sweep / In ever-highering eagle-circles up / To the great Sun of Glory, […]”

6. (intransitive, transitive)To give up; to surrender or capitulate.

   “They refuse to yield to the enemy.”

   “Eventually she stopped arguing and yielded the point.”

   “Won with thy words, & conquered with thy lookes, / I yeeld my ſelfe, my men & horſe to thee: / To be partaker of thy good or ill, / As long as life maintaines Theridimas.”

   “I'll make him yield the crown.”

   “Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.”

7. (US, especially, intransitive, transitive)To give up; to surrender or capitulate.

   “Yield the right of way to pedestrians.”

   “It is not clear from the road markings who is supposed to yield at the junction.”

8. (intransitive)To give up; to surrender or capitulate.

   “I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield.”

   “One equal temper of heroic hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

   “⁠For though my nature rarely yields ⁠To that vague fear implied in death; ⁠Nor shudders at the gulfs beneath, The howlings from forgotten fields; […]”

   “He turned the handle as he spoke, but the door did not yield. We threw ourselves against it. With a crash it burst open, and we almost fell headlong into the room.”

9. (intransitive)To give up; to surrender or capitulate.

   “The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield.”

10. To give up; to surrender or capitulate.
11. (rare)To give up; to surrender or capitulate.

    “I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A product.

   “In the case of countries more favoured by climate than Britain their earliest trade with the foreigner which history has to record is usually in the surface products of the earth—in corn or wine, in the yields of the olive-grove or the orchard.”

2. (countable, uncountable)The quantity of something produced.

   “Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.”

3. (countable, uncountable)The quantity of something produced.
4. (countable, uncountable)The quantity of something produced.
5. (countable, uncountable)The quantity of something produced.
6. (countable, uncountable)The quantity of something produced.
7. (countable, uncountable)The quantity of something produced.

   “A yield curve inversion happens when long-term bond yields fall below short-term bond yields. That rarely occurs. Before this month, that section of the yield curve hadn’t inverted since 2007, just before the Great Recession.”

   “When bond yields rise slowly over time, it’s not a problem for pensions deploying LDI strategies, and actually helps their finances.”

8. (countable, uncountable)The quantity of something produced.

   “Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.”

9. (countable, material, uncountable)yield strength of a material.
10. (countable, uncountable)The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
11. (countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)Payment; money; tribute.