different between production vs harvest

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French production, from Latin productio, productionem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). See produce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???d?k??n/

Noun

production (countable and uncountable, plural productions)

1. The act of producing, making or creating something. [from 15th c.]

2. The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration. [from 15th c.]
3. The act of being produced.

4. The total amount produced.
5. The presentation of a theatrical work.

6. An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.

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

8. The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
9. (zoology) An extension or protrusion.
10. (computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)

11. (programming, uncountable) The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
12. (Scotland, law, in the plural) Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.

Derived terms

• productionise, productionize
• production line

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??????? (purodakushon)

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin productio, productionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.dyk.sj??/

Noun

production f (plural productions)

1. production

Related terms

• produire
• produit

Further reading

• “production” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• harvist, hervest, harst, hairst (all obsolete or dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn, harvest-time; August”), from Proto-West Germanic *harbist, from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest-time, autumn, fall”), from *harbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?h??.v?st/, /?h??.v?st/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??(?)v?st/, /?h??(?)v?st/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?ha?v?st/

Noun

harvest (countable and uncountable, plural harvests)

1. (Britain dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.

2. The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
3. The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
4. The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.

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

   • 1911, Jack London, The Whale Tooth

     The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.
5. (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.

   • The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.

   • 1815, William Wordsworth, A Poet's Epitaph

     the harvest of a quiet eye

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

Synonyms

• (season of the year): autumn, fall
• (agricultural or horticultural yield): crop

Translations

Verb

harvest (third-person singular simple present harvests, present participle harvesting, simple past and past participle harvested)

1. (transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
2. (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest

   Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation

3. (transitive) To win, achieve a gain.

   The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21

Translations

Derived terms

• harvestable
• harvestability
• harvestee
• harvester
• harvest bug
• harvest fish
• harvest fly
• harvest home
• harvest louse
• harvestly
• harvestman
• harvest mite
• harvest moon
• harvest mouse
• harvest queen
• harvest spider
• harvest time

Anagrams

• thraves