Meaning

• To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.

• To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.

• To give way; to allow another to pass first.

  "Yield the right of way to pedestrians."

• To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.

  "They refuse to yield to the enemy."

• To give, or give forth, (anything).

• To give way; to succumb to a force.

• To produce as return, as from an investment.

  "Historically, that security yields a high return."

• To produce as a result.

  "Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7."

• To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.

  "Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-."

• (of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.

• To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.