harvest vs production

harvest

noun
  • The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences. 

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

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

  • This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous. 

  • The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting. 

  • The third season of the year; autumn; fall. 

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

verb
  • To win, achieve a gain. 

  • To be occupied bringing in a harvest 

  • To bring in a harvest; reap; glean. 

  • To kill for meat, slaughter. 

production

noun
  • The act of being produced. 

  • The presentation of a theatrical work. 

  • The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration. 

  • The act of producing, making or creating something. 

  • A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.) 

  • The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development. 

  • Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision. 

  • Written documents produced in support of the action or defence. 

  • An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary. 

  • An extension or protrusion. 

  • The act of lengthening out or prolonging. 

  • That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model). 

  • The total amount produced. 

How often have the words harvest and production occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )