What is the meaning of yield?

noun

• Production of a certain amount.
  • synonyms: output
• The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property.
  • usage: "the average return was about 5"
  • synonyms: return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, payoff
• An amount of a product.
  • synonyms: fruit
• The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time. )
  • usage: "production was up in the second quarter"
  • synonyms: output, production

verb

• Be the cause or source of.
  • usage: "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"
  • synonyms: give, afford
• End resistance, as under pressure or force.
  • usage: "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"
  • synonyms: give way
• Give or supply.
  • usage: "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1, 000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
  • synonyms: render, return, give, generate
• Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another.
  • synonyms: concede, cede, grant
• Give in, as to influence or pressure.
  • synonyms: relent, soften
• Move in order to make room for someone for something.
  • usage: "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd"
  • synonyms: move over, give way, give, ease up
• Cause to happen or be responsible for.
  • usage: "His two singles gave the team the victory"
  • synonyms: give
• Be willing to concede.
  • usage: "I grant you this much"
  • synonyms: concede, grant
• Be fatally overwhelmed.
  • synonyms: succumb
• Bring in.
  • usage: "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually"
  • synonyms: pay, bear
• Be flexible under stress of physical force.
  • usage: "This material doesn't give"
  • synonyms: give
• Cease opposition; stop fighting.
• Consent reluctantly.
  • synonyms: give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under