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har·vest
(här′vĭst)n.
1. The act or process of gathering a crop.
2.
a. The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.
b. The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season.
c. The time or season of such gathering.
3. The result or consequence of an action: stuck with the harvest of a predecessor's decisions.
v. har·vest·ed, har·vest·ing, har·vests
v.tr.
1.
a. To gather (a crop).
b. To take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control.
c. To extract from a culture or a living or recently deceased body, especially for transplantation: harvested bone marrow.
2. To gather a crop from (land, for example).
3. To receive or collect (energy): a turbine that harvests energy from tidal currents.
4. To receive (the benefits or consequences of an action). See Synonyms at reap.
v.intr.
To gather a crop.
har′vest·a·ble adj.
har′vest·a·bil′i·ty n.
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harvest
(ˈhɑːvɪst)n
1. (Agriculture) the gathering of a ripened crop
2. (Agriculture) the crop itself or the yield from it in a single growing season
3. (Agriculture) the season for gathering crops
4. the product of an effort, action, etc: a harvest of love.
vb
5. (Agriculture) to gather or reap (a ripened crop) from (the place where it has been growing)
6. (tr) to receive or reap (benefits, consequences, etc)
7. (Surgery) (tr) chiefly US to remove (an organ) from the body for transplantation
[Old English hærfest; related to Old Norse harfr harrow, Old High German herbist autumn, Latin carpere to pluck, Greek karpos fruit, Sanskrit krpāna shears]
ˈharvesting n
ˈharvestless adj
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har•vest
(ˈhɑr vɪst) n. 1. Also, har′vest•ing. the gathering of crops.
2. the season when ripened crops are gathered.
3. a crop or yield of one growing season.
4. a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored: a harvest of wheat.
5. the result or consequence of any act, process, or event: a harvest of memories.
v.t. 6. to gather (a crop or the like); reap.
7. to gather the crop from: to harvest the fields.
8. to gain, win, etc. (a prize, product, etc.).
9. to catch or take for use: to harvest salmon from the river.
v.i. 10. to gather a crop; reap.
[before 950; Middle English; Old English hærfest, c. Old High German herbist, Old Norse haust; akin to harrow1]
har′vest•a•ble, adj.
har`vest•a•bil′i•ty, n.
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Harvest
one season’s yield of any natural product.Examples: harvest of bark, 1880; of captives, 1613; of grouse, 1881; of hate; of honey, 1697; of mice, 1607; of perpetual peace, 1594; of souls.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
harvest
Past participle: harvested
Gerund: harvesting
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| Noun | 1. |  harvest - the yield from plants in a single growing seasonfruitage - the yield of fruit; "a tree highly recommended for its fruitage" |
| 2. | harvest - the consequence of an effort or activity; "they gathered a harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love" | |
| 3. | harvest - the gathering of a ripened crop haying - the harvesting of hay | |
| 4. | harvest - the season for gathering crops time of year, season - one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions; "the regular sequence of the seasons" | |
| Verb | 1. | harvest - gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" cut - reap or harvest; "cut grain" gather, pull together, collect, garner - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" |
| 2. | harvest - remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation; "The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals" |
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harvest
noun
1. harvesting, picking, gathering, collecting, reaping, harvest-time 300 million tons of grain in the fields at the start of the harvest
verb
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harvest
noun2. Something brought about by a cause:
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Translations
sklizeňsklízet
høsthøste
korjatakorjata satosadonkorjuusato
žetižetva
aratásszüretel
panen
uppskera
収穫収穫する
수확수확하다
javapjovėnuimtipjovėjas
novākt ražupļaujaražas novākšana
žatvazberzberať úrodu
pobiranjepobratipridelekžetevžeti
skördskörda
เก็บเกี่ยวการเก็บเกี่ยว
hasathasat etmekhasat kaldırmakbiçmekekin biçme
thu hoạchvụ thu hoạch
harvest
[ˈhɑːvɪst]A. N
1. (= act) [of cereals] → siega f; [of fruit, vegetables] → cosecha f, recolección f; [of grapes] → vendimia f
2. (= product) → cosecha f
3. (fig) → cosecha f
B. VT
1. (Agr) [+ cereals] → cosechar; [+ fruit, vegetables] → cosechar, recolectar; [+ grapes] → vendimiar
2. (fig) → cosechar
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
harvest
[ˈhɑːrvɪst] n [corn] → moisson f; [rice] → récolte f; [fruit] → récolte f; [grapes] → vendange f
a poor harvest → une mauvaise récolte
a poor harvest → une mauvaise récolte
modif
at harvest time → pendant la moisson
at harvest time → pendant la moisson
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
harvest
n → Ernte f; (of wines, berries also) → Lese f; (of the sea) → Ausbeute f, → Ertrag m; (fig) → Frucht f, → Ertrag m; the harvest of ideas → die Ausbeute an Ideen; a bumper potato harvest → eine Rekordkartoffelernte; to reap the harvest of something (= benefit) → die Früchte einer Sache (gen) → ernten; (= suffer) → die Konsequenzen einer Sache (gen) → tragen
vt (= reap: also fig) → ernten; vines also → lesen; trees, timber → schlagen; fish → fangen; (= bring in) → einbringen
vi → ernten
harvest
:harvest festival
n → Erntedankfest nt
harvest fly
n (Zool) → Zikade f
harvest home
harvest moon
n → Herbstmond m, heller Vollmond im September
harvest time
n → Erntezeit f
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Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
harvest
(ˈhaːvist) noun the gathering in of ripened crops. the rice harvest.
verb to gather in (crops etc). We harvested the apples yesterday.
ˈharvester noun a person or machine that harvests corn.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
harvest
→ حَصَاد, يَحْصِدُ sklizeň, sklízet høst, høste Ernte, ernten δρέπω, συγκομιδή cosecha, cosechar korjata sato, sadonkorjuu récolte, récolter žeti, žetva raccogliere, raccolto 収穫, 収穫する 수확, 수확하다 oogst, oogsten høste, innhøsting zebrać plony, żniwa colheita, colher сбор урожая, собирать урожай skörd, skörda เก็บเกี่ยว, การเก็บเกี่ยว hasat, hasat kaldırmak thu hoạch, vụ thu hoạch 收割, 收获Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
har·vest
n. recolección, obtención o separación de bacterias u otros microorganismos de un cultivo; cosecha.
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