Crop vs. Yield — What's the Difference?

A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. Crops may refer either to the harvested parts or to the harvest in a more refined state.

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

A cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable

Give way to arguments, demands, or pressure

A group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time

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

A hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short

An amount produced of an agricultural or industrial product

Short for riding crop or hunting crop

To give forth by a natural process, especially by cultivation

A pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion

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

The entire tanned hide of an animal.

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

Cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short

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

Harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area

To give forth a natural product; be productive.

Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group

To produce a return for effort or investment

The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place

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

A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time

To give way to pressure or force

A short haircut.

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

An earmark on an animal.

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

A short whip used in horseback riding, with a loop serving as a lash.

An amount yielded or produced; a product.

The stock of a whip.

A profit obtained from an investment; a return.

A pouchlike enlargement of a bird's gullet in which food is partially digested or stored for regurgitation to nestlings.

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.

A similar enlargement in the digestive tract of annelids and insects.

(obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.

To cut or bite off the tops or ends of

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

To cut (hair, for example) very short.

To give way; to allow another to pass first.

To clip (an animal's ears, for example).

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

To trim (a photograph or picture, for example).

To give, or give forth, (anything).

To harvest

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

To cause to grow or yield a crop.

To produce as return, as from an investment.

To feed on growing grasses and herbage.

(mathematics) To produce as a result.

To plant, grow, or yield a crop.

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

(agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

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

The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.

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

(figurative) A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.

(obsolete) Payment; tribute.

A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.

A product; the quantity of something produced.

The lashing end of a whip.

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

An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.

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

A rocky outcrop.

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

The act of cropping.

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.

A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.

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

A short haircut.

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.

(anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.

To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.

To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.

The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

To give a reward to; to bless.

(mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.

To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.

(mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.

An entire oxhide.

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.

Marijuana.

To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.

(transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

Amount yielded; product; - applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.

(transitive) To mow, reap or gather.

Production of a certain amount

(transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.

An amount of a product

(transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.

The income arising from land or other property;

(intransitive) To yield harvest.

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

(transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

Be the cause or source of;

(transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.

End resistance, especially under pressure or force;

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

Give or supply;

The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.

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

That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.

Give in, as to influence or pressure

Grain or other product of the field while standing.

Move in order to make room for someone for something;

Anything cut off or gathered.

Bring about;

Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.

Be willing to concede;

A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.

Be fatally overwhelmed

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

Bring in;

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.

Be flexible under stress of physical force;

To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.

Cease opposition; stop fighting

Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.

Consent reluctantly

To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.

To cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; - of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders.

To yield harvest.

The yield from plants in a single growing season

A collection of people or things appearing together;

The output of something in a season;

The stock or handle of a whip

A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

Cut short;

Prepare for crops;

Yield crops;

Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

Feed as in a meadow or pasture;

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;