Harvest

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  • noun. The act or process of gathering a crop.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.
  • noun. The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season.
  • noun. The time or season of such gathering.
  • noun. The result or consequence of an action.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To gather (a crop).
  • intransitive verb. To take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control.
  • intransitive verb. To extract from a culture or a living or recently deceased body, especially for transplantation.
  • intransitive verb. To gather a crop from (land, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To receive or collect (energy).
  • intransitive verb. To receive (the benefits or consequences of an action). synonym: reap.
  • intransitive verb. To gather a crop.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To reap or gather, as corn and other crops, for the use of man and beast: often used figuratively.
  • noun. The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
  • noun. The season of gathering the ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
  • noun. A crop or crops gathered or ready to be gathered; specifically, ripe grain reaped, and stored in stacks or barns; hence, a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored up: as, a harvest of nuts, or of ice.
  • noun. Hence The product of any labor, or the result of any course of action; gain; result; effect; consequence.
  • noun. The act or process of harvesting.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To reap or gather, as any crop.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.
  • noun. The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
  • noun. a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish.
  • noun. an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada.
  • noun. the head reaper at a harvest.
  • noun. a minute European mite (Leptus autumnalis), of a bright crimson color, which is troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and domestic animals; -- called also harvest louse, and harvest bug.
  • noun. the moon near the full at the time of harvest in England, or about the autumnal equinox, when, by reason of the small angle that is made by the moon's orbit with the horizon, it rises nearly at the same hour for several days.
  • noun. a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants.
  • noun. an image representing Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest.
  • noun. See Daddy longlegs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The process of harvesting, gathering the ripened crop.
  • noun. The yield of harvesting, i.e. the gathered, cut ... fruits of horti- or agri-culture (usually a food - or industrial crop)
  • noun. The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
  • noun. A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
  • verb. To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
  • verb. To be occupied bringing in a harvest
  • verb. To win, achieve a gain.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation
  • noun. the consequence of an effort or activity
  • verb. gather, as of natural products
  • noun. the yield from plants in a single growing season
  • noun. the gathering of a ripened crop
  • noun. the season for gathering crops
  • Word Usage
    "The term harvest comes from the Anglo-Saxon word haerfest, which means autumn."
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