yield

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To give forth by a natural process, especially by cultivation.
• intransitive verb To furnish as return for effort or investment; be productive of.
• intransitive verb To give over possession of, as in deference or defeat; surrender.
• intransitive verb To give up (an advantage, for example) to another; concede.
• intransitive verb To give forth a natural product; be productive.
• intransitive verb To produce a return for effort or investment.
• intransitive verb To give up, as in defeat; surrender or submit.
• intransitive verb To give way to pressure or force.
• intransitive verb To give way to argument, persuasion, influence, or entreaty.
• intransitive verb To give up one's place, as to one that is superior.
• noun An amount yielded or produced; a product.
• noun A profit obtained from an investment; a return.
• noun The energy released by an explosion, especially by a nuclear explosion, expressed in units of weight (usually kilotons) of TNT required to produce an equivalent release.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Payment; tribute.
• noun 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.
• noun The act of yielding or giving way, as under pressure.
• noun 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.
• To give in payment; pay; repay; reward; requite; recompense.
• To give in return, or by way of recompense; produce, as a reward or return for labor performed, capital invested, or some similar output.
• To produce generally; bring forth; give out; emit; bear; furnish.
• To afford; confer; grant; give.
• 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.
• To give up or render generally.
• To admit the force, justice, or truth of; allow; concede; grant.
• Synonyms To supply, render.
• To accord.
• To produce; bear; give a return for labor: as, the tree yields abundantly; the mines yielded better last year.
• To give way, as to superior physical force, to a conqueror, etc.; give up a contest; submit; succumb; surrender.
• To give way, in a moral sense, as to entreaty, argument, or a request; cease opposing; comply; consent; assent.
• To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.
• transitive verb To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay.
• transitive verb To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
• transitive verb 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.
• transitive verb To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
• transitive verb To permit; to grant.
• transitive verb obsolete To give a reward to; to bless.
• transitive verb to die; to expire; -- similar to To give up the ghost.
• intransitive verb To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
• intransitive verb To comply with; to assent.