Performance vs. Yield — What's the Difference?

A performance is an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function.

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

The act of performing or the state of being performed.

Give way to arguments, demands, or pressure

The act or style of performing a work or role before an audience.

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

The way in which someone or something functions

An amount produced of an agricultural or industrial product

A presentation, especially a theatrical one, before an audience.

To give forth by a natural process, especially by cultivation

Something performed; an accomplishment.

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

(Linguistics) One's actual use of language in actual situations.

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

The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.

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

That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.

To give forth a natural product; be productive.

(arts) A live show or concert.

To produce a return for effort or investment

The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.

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

(linguistics) The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. linguistic performance.

To give way to pressure or force

The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.

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

That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character.

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

A dramatic or musical entertainment;

An amount yielded or produced; a product.

The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it;

A profit obtained from an investment; a return.

The act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment;

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.

Process or manner of functioning or operating;

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

Any recognized accomplishment;

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