1. yield - Noun
2. yield - Verb
To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.
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.
To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
To give a reward to; to bless.
To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded.
To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.
Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPerseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Plutarch
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
At a dangerous passage yield precedence. Italian Proverb
Though the palm tree in the jungle is big, who knows how big its yield will be? Liberia Proverb
The barrel can only yield the wine that's in it. Corsican Proverb