Harvest vs. Yield — What's the Difference?

Harvesting is the process of gathering a ripe crop from the fields. Reaping is the cutting of grain or pulse for harvest, typically using a scythe, sickle, or reaper.

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

The act or process of gathering a crop.

Give way to arguments, demands, or pressure

The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.

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

The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season.

An amount produced of an agricultural or industrial product

The time or season of such gathering

To give forth by a natural process, especially by cultivation

The result or consequence of an action

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

To gather (a crop)

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

To take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control.

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

To extract from a culture or a living or recently deceased body, especially for transplantation

To give forth a natural product; be productive.

To gather a crop from (land, for example)

To produce a return for effort or investment

To receive or collect (energy)

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

To receive (the benefits or consequences of an action)

To give way to pressure or force

To gather a crop.

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

The third season of the year; autumn; fall.

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

The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.

An amount yielded or produced; a product.

The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.

A profit obtained from an investment; a return.

The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.

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.

(by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.

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

(paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.

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

(transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.

To give way; to allow another to pass first.

To kill for meat, slaughter.

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

(intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest

To give, or give forth, (anything).

(transitive) To win, achieve a gain.

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

The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.

To produce as return, as from an investment.

That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.

(mathematics) To produce as a result.

The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.

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

To reap or gather, as any crop.

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

The yield from plants in a single growing season

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

The consequence of an effort or activity;

(obsolete) Payment; tribute.

The gathering of a ripened crop

A product; the quantity of something produced.

The season for gathering crops

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

Gather, as of natural products;

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

Remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation;

(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