yield

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   end resistance, as under pressure or force

   The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram

2. 2
   verb

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

   This method generally yields better results.

3. 3
   verb

   To give up; to surrender or capitulate.

   They refuse to yield to the enemy.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   The quantity of something produced.

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

6. 6
   noun

   production of a certain amount

7. 7
   noun

   an amount of a product

8. 8
   noun

   the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

Etymology

From Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan (“to pay”), from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). The noun is from Middle English ȝeld (“tax, payment”), from Old English ġield (“payment”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld (“payment”), from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Cognates Cognate with Scots yield (“to yield”), North Frisian jilden (“to pay”), Saterland Frisian jäilde (“to be valid, matter, count,…