Capitulate vs. Yield — What's the Difference?

To surrender under specified conditions

Produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product)

To give up all resistance; acquiesce

Give way to arguments, demands, or pressure

(intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.

(of a mass or structure) give way under force or pressure

To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.

An amount produced of an agricultural or industrial product

To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.

To give forth by a natural process, especially by cultivation

To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.

To furnish as return for effort or investment; be productive of

To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.

To give over possession of, as in deference or defeat; surrender

To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.

To give up (an advantage, for example) to another; concede

Surrender under agreed conditions

To give forth a natural product; be productive.

To produce a return for effort or investment

To give up, as in defeat; surrender or submit.

To give way to pressure or force

To give way to argument, persuasion, influence, or entreaty.

To give up one's place, as to one that is superior

An amount yielded or produced; a product.

A profit obtained from an investment; a return.

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.

(obsolete) 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.

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

To give, or give forth, (anything).

(intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.

To produce as return, as from an investment.

(mathematics) To produce as a result.

(linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.

To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.

(rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

(obsolete) Payment; tribute.

A product; the quantity of something produced.

The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuke, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.

(law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.

(finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.

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

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.

Production of a certain amount

An amount of a product

The income arising from land or other property;

The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time);

Be the cause or source of;

End resistance, especially under pressure or force;

Give or supply;

Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

Give in, as to influence or pressure

Move in order to make room for someone for something;

Bring about;

Be willing to concede;

Be fatally overwhelmed

Bring in;

Be flexible under stress of physical force;

Cease opposition; stop fighting

Consent reluctantly