production vs yield

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. 

yield

noun
  • A product; the quantity of something produced. 

  • Profit earned from an investment; return on investment. 

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

  • The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond. 

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

  • To produce as a result. 

  • To give, or give forth, (anything). 

  • To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law. 

  • To produce as return, as from an investment. 

  • To give way; to succumb to a force. 

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

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

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

  • To give way; to allow another to pass first. 

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