transitive verb

1. to produce; specif.,
   1. to give or furnish as a natural process or as the result of cultivation an orchard that yielded a good crop
   2. to give in return; produce as a result, profit, etc. an investment that yielded high profits
2. to give up under pressure; surrender: sometimes used reflexively with up to yield oneself up to pleasure
3. to give; concede; grant to yield the right of way, to yield a point
4. Archaic to pay; recompense

Etymology: ME yelden < OE gieldan, to pay, give, akin to Ger gelten, to be worth < IE base *ghel-tō, (I) give, pay

intransitive verb

1. to produce or bear a mine that has yielded poorly
2. to give up; surrender; submit
3. to give way to physical force the gate would not yield to their blows
4. to give place; lose precedence, leadership, etc.; specif.,: often with to
   1. to let another, esp. a motorist, have the right of way
   2. to give up willingly a right, position, privilege, etc.

noun

1. the act of yielding, or producing
2. the amount yielded or produced; return on labor, investment, taxes, etc.; product
3. Finance the ratio of the annual cash dividends or of the earnings per share of a stock to the market price
4. Physics, Chem.
   1. the total products actually obtained from given raw materials, usually expressed as a percentage of the amount theoretically obtainable
   2. the force in kilotons or megatons of a nuclear or thermonuclear explosion