Commit and Yield

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

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

• (v.i.) To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
• (n.) Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.
• (v.i.) 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.
• (v.t.) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
• (v.t.) To give a reward to; to bless.
• (v.i.) To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.
• (v.t.) To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
• (v.t.) To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
• (v.i.) To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) 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.

Yield is the rate of return on an investment, paid in dividends or interest and expressed as a percent. In the case of stocks, the yield on your investment is the dividend you receive per share divided by the stock's price per share. With bonds, it is the interest divided by the price. In the case of bonds, the yield on your investment and the interest rate your investment pays are sometimes-but by no means always-the same. If the price of a bond moves higher or lower than par, the yield will be different from the interest rate. For example, if you pay $950 for a bond with a par value of $1, 000 that pays 6% interest, your yield is 6. 3%. But if you paid $1, 100 for the same bond, your yield would be only 5. 5%. Yield can usually be calculated by dividing the amount you receive annually in dividends or interest by the amount you spent to buy the investment.