The difference between Fold and Yield
When used as nouns, fold means an act of folding, whereas yield means payment.
When used as verbs, fold means to bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself, whereas yield means to pay, give in payment.
check bellow for the other definitions of Fold and Yield
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Fold as a verb (transitive):
To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
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Fold as a verb (transitive):
To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
Examples:
"If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer."
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Fold as a verb (intransitive):
To become folded; to form folds.
Examples:
"Cardboard doesn't fold very easily."
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Fold as a verb (intransitive, informal):
To fall over; to be crushed.
Examples:
"The chair folded under his enormous weight."
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Fold as a verb (transitive):
To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
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Fold as a verb (intransitive):
To give way on a point or in an argument.
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Fold as a verb (intransitive, poker):
To withdraw from betting.
Examples:
"With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded."
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Fold as a verb (intransitive, by extension):
To withdraw or quit in general.
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Fold as a verb (transitive, cooking):
To stir gently, with a folding action.
Examples:
"Fold the egg whites into the batter."
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Fold as a verb (intransitive, business):
Of a company, to cease to trade.
Examples:
"The company folded after six quarters of negative growth."
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Fold as a verb:
To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
Examples:
"He folded his arms in defiance."
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Fold as a verb:
To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
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Fold as a noun:
An act of folding.
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Fold as a noun:
A bend or crease.
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Fold as a noun:
Any correct move in origami.
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Fold as a noun (newspapers):
The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
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Fold as a noun (by extension, web design):
The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
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Fold as a noun:
That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
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Fold as a noun (geology):
The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
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Fold as a noun (computing, programming):
In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
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Fold as a noun:
A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
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Fold as a noun:
A group of sheep or goats.
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Fold as a noun (figuratively):
Home, family.
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Fold as a noun (religion, Christian):
A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
Examples:
"'John, ''X, 16'': "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold."
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Fold as a noun:
A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
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Fold as a noun (obsolete):
A boundary or limit.
Examples:
"rfquotek Creech"
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Fold as a verb:
To confine animals in a fold.
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Fold as a noun (dialectal, poetic, or, obsolete):
The Earth; earth; land, country.
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Yield as a verb (obsolete):
To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
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Yield as a verb:
To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
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Yield as a verb:
To give way; to allow another to pass first.
Examples:
"Yield the right of way to pedestrians."
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Yield as a verb:
To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
Examples:
"They refuse to yield to the enemy."
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Yield as a verb:
To give, or give forth, (anything).
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Yield as a verb (intransitive):
To give way; to succumb to a force.
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Yield as a verb:
To produce as return, as from an investment.
Examples:
"Historically, that security yields a high return."
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Yield as a verb (mathematics):
To produce as a result.
Examples:
"Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7."
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Yield as a verb (linguistics):
To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
Examples:
"Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-."
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Yield as a verb (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen):
To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
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Yield as a verb (rare):
To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
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Yield as a noun (obsolete):
Payment; tribute.
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Yield as a noun:
A product; the quantity of something produced.
Examples:
"Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit."
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Yield as a noun (law):
The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
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Yield as a noun (finance):
Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.