(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gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.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.
Glisten
Definition:
(v. i.) To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.
Example Sentences:
(1) McArdle – who plays Abrahams, the Jewish runner who sees proving himself on the track as a way of combatting antisemitism – is glistening with sweat.
(2) I found the new hope in my heart," he said, eyes glistening with tears.
(3) Somewhere, glistening in the ashes, there might remain a copy of Jane Eyre.
(4) I opened my eyes to see the pristine beach glistening in the clean dawn air.
(5) Bake for a further 10-15 minutes until well browned and glistening.
(6) I sat there, bundled up against the cold, on benches carved from ice, with glistening icy walls and snow flurries falling through ventilation holes, while a folk band played glowing instruments – carved out of ice.
(7) This he achieves by rearranging her intestines, picking through them and, somewhere among the glistening loops, cutting a section in two and rerouting the ends.
(8) Fuchsin glistening colonies as well as the total bacterial counts on Sabouraud agar and Leifson agar as well as on kanamycin-esculin agar showed frequency peaks which were one power of ten lower.
(9) Marks & Spencer is offering fruit juice laced with glitter and smoked salmon topped with gold leaf; Sainsbury will be selling edible glistening Christmas baubles made from chocolate; while Asda is offering a glitter-topped version of the traditional pudding.
(10) These buttery potato scones glisten on my plate like Grecian tiles.
(11) The examination of the fundus showed dense, glistening bright yellow crystalline deposits around the maculae.
(12) Necropsy findings included generalized edema of the visceral organs and diffuse red glistening foci on the capsular and cut surfaces of the cortex of both kidneys.
(13) The overwhelming impression is one of tasteful reserve, of glistening cream paint and shining green and black railings – until you pause to examine the enormous heft of the houses: vast, detached palaces, with too many windows to count, on a scale dwarfing other private homes in London .
(14) Both lesions were surgically excised and found to be cystic in nature and filled with glistening gelatinous material consistent with partially absorbed, encysted gelatin film (Gelfilm).
(15) After Tony and his shiny head did the dirty with Tracy Barlow, the goddess of pure evil, Liz went straight into a rebound fling with Dan, a man so slimy he glistens.
(16) In my place I'm fine, but if I use my glistening podium, to talk to the people I grew up with, or signed on with or used drugs with, vulnerable overlooked, underserved, ordinary people, people that can't sue them as I am, then out come the fangs.
(17) The typical chondrosarcoma is low in grade but malignant and it arises in the nasal cavity as a large, pale, glistening mass.
(18) As the plane came into land in Seattle over the glistening waters of the Puget Sound, after a long journey from Iraq, he only had one thought: “Now we’ll be safe.
(19) More than 180 miles west of Barclays Bank's glistening skyscraper in the heart of Canary Wharf, a small group of tax protesters will gather outside one of its lesser-known branches.
(20) The disease was characterized by juvenile degeneration of the vitreous with detachment of the vitreous body and some floating vitreous opacities, cystoid degeneration of the peripheral retina with whitish glistening stippled areas of superficial retinal degeneration, spotty hyperpigmentation, patches of retinal atrophy with pigmentations, occasional atrophic retinal holes, and in four family members at the age of 4 to 12 years, unilateral or bilateral retinal detachment with breaks in the peripheral retina.