Definition of "yield"

to give

1. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.  quotations

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   • God 'ild [yield] you, sir!

     c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iv]

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

     c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene ii]

   • God yield thee, and God thank ye.

     1623 January 5 (first performance), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Spanish Curat”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, Act IV, scene v

   • 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, […]

     1874, Alfred Tennyson, “Gareth and Lynette”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], page 38

2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.  quotations  examples

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   • Vines yield nectar.

     1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

   • The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

     1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Job 24:5

3. To give, or give forth, (anything).  quotations  examples

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

     1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii]

   • Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed.

     2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Protheans: Data Discs Codex entry

To give up; to surrender or capitulate.

1. To give as demanded; to relinquish.  quotations  examples

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   • 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.

     c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, (please specify the page)

   • I'll make him yield the crown.

     1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]

   • Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.

     1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

2. To give way; to allow another to pass first.  examples

3. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.  quotations  examples

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   • 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.

     1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library

4. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.  examples

5. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.  quotations

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   • I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.

     1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

to produce

1. To produce as return, as from an investment.  examples

2. (mathematics) To produce as a result.  examples

3. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.  examples

(obsolete) Payment; tribute.

A product; the quantity of something produced.  examples

The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuke, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.  examples

(law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.  quotations  examples

(finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.  examples