yield

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To give forth by or as if by a natural process, especially by cultivation: a field that yields many bushels of corn.
2. v. To furnish as return for effort or investment; be productive of: an investment that yields high percentages.
3. v. To give over possession of, as in deference or defeat; surrender.
4. v. To give up (an advantage, for example) to another; concede.
5. v. To give forth a natural product; be productive.
6. v. To produce a return for effort or investment: bonds that yield well.
7. v. To give up, as in defeat; surrender or submit.
8. v. To give way to pressure or force: The door yielded to a gentle push.
9. v. To give way to argument, persuasion, influence, or entreaty.
10. v. To give up one's place, as to one that is superior: yielded to the chairperson.
11. n. An amount yielded or produced; a product.
12. n. A profit obtained from an investment; a return.
13. n. The energy released by an explosion, especially by a nuclear explosion, expressed in units of weight of TNT required to produce an equivalent release: The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 20 kilotons.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Specifically, in forestry, the amount of wood at present upon, or which after a given period will be upon, a given area. See phrases below.
2. To give in payment; pay; repay; reward; requite; recompense.
3. To give in return, or by way of recompense; produce, as a reward or return for labor performed, capital invested, or some similar output.
4. To produce generally; bring forth; give out; emit; bear; furnish.
5. To afford; confer; grant; give.
6. To give up, as to a superior power or authority; quit possession of, as through compulsion, necessity, or duty; relinquish; resign; surrender: often followed by up.
7. To give up or render generally.
8. To admit the force, justice, or truth of; allow; concede; grant.
9. Synonyms To supply, render.
10. To accord.
11. To produce; bear; give a return for labor: as, the tree yields abundantly; the mines yielded better last year.
12. To give way, as to superior physical force, to a conqueror, etc.; give up a contest; submit; succumb; surrender.
13. To give way, in a moral sense, as to entreaty, argument, or a request; cease opposing; comply; consent; assent.
14. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence.
15. n. Payment; tribute.
16. n. That which is yielded; the product or return of growth, cultivation, or care; also, that which is obtained by labor, as in mines or manufactories.
17. n. The act of yielding or giving way, as under pressure.

Wiktionary

1. v. archaic, obsolete To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
2. v. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
3. v. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
4. v. intransitive To give way; to succumb to a force.
5. v. To produce as return, as from an investment.
6. v. mathematics To produce as a result.
7. n. obsolete Payment; tribute.
8. n. A product; the quantity of something produced
9. n. law The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay.
2. v. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
3. v. 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.
4. v. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
5. v. To permit; to grant.
6. v. obsolete To give a reward to; to bless.
7. v. To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
8. v. To comply with; to assent.
9. v. To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle
10. v. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence.
11. n. Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. bring in
2. n. an amount of a product
3. v. be flexible under stress of physical force
4. v. end resistance, as under pressure or force
5. v. move in order to make room for someone for something
6. n. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
7. v. cease opposition; stop fighting
8. v. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
9. v. give or supply
10. v. cause to happen or be responsible for
11. v. be willing to concede
12. v. be the cause or source of
13. v. give in, as to influence or pressure
14. v. be fatally overwhelmed
15. n. production of a certain amount
16. n. the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
17. v. consent reluctantly