What's the difference between glead and glean?

Glead


Definition:

  • (n.) A live coal. See Gleed.

Example Sentences:

Glean


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.
  • (v. t.) To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
  • (v. t.) To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
  • (v. i.) To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
  • (v. i.) To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
  • (n.) A collection made by gleaning.
  • (n.) Cleaning; afterbirth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
  • (2) Information and titles for this bibliography were gleaned from printed indexes and university medical center libraries.
  • (3) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
  • (4) One of the insights gleaned during the Great Depression was that it does not make a lot of sense for governments to try to balance budgets during a severe downturn, because tax increases and spending cuts reduce demand.
  • (5) With a high level of English gleaned from an Erasmus stint in Oxford, she was eager to move to London.
  • (6) We have compared cerebral aneurysms in 79 patients with APKD gleaned from the literature to the sporadic aneurysm cases reported by the Cooperative Study to determine if there are significant biological differences between these two groups.
  • (7) The cytological features gleaned from fine needle aspiration biopsy are described.
  • (8) Data were gleaned at two points in time, spanning 3-year intervals, from subjects ranging in age from early to late adolescence.
  • (9) Facebook's decision was a hit with online advertisers eager to glean as much data as possible on its millions of users, but has been a constant source of concern for the public.
  • (10) Although this method was labor intensive, the amount of data gleaned from the manipulation of wild populations more than compensated for such costs.
  • (11) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
  • (12) She had to battle to live every day – as you might glean from The Bell Jar.
  • (13) In 18 of these 29 (62%) patients, the information gleaned from the images appeared to influence the surgical management.
  • (14) However, a great deal of information can be gleaned from relatively simple recording techniques that are easily adapted to office practice.
  • (15) A police officer who for seven years lived deep undercover at the heart of the environmental protest movement, travelling to 22 countries gleaning information and playing a frontline role in some of the most high-profile confrontations, has quit the Met, telling his friends that what he did was wrong.
  • (16) Should it work, customers should be able to glean easier comparisons about the cost of banking across different providers.
  • (17) But there’s a disconnect between that work and the advantage they glean from it.
  • (18) A number of commentators have observed that the global financial crisis was good for economic history, because it directed attention to previous crises and to the insights that could be gleaned from studying them.
  • (19) Bryant asked if members of the Sky board had access to any of the information gleaned from phone hacking, saying he believed that they had.
  • (20) Some sense of the scale of all this can be gleaned from the EU lobby register , where just over 6,500 businesses, trade unions, NGOs and professional lobbyists have supplied basic information on what they do and how much they spend.

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