(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gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.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.
Harvest
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath//ed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.
(n.) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
(v. t.) To reap or gather, as any crop.
Example Sentences:
(1) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
(2) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(3) The quality of liver grafts was evaluated using an original, blood-free isolated perfusion model, after 8 h cold storage, or after 15 min warm ischemia performed prior to harvesting.
(4) The UN estimates that at least 10 million people in east Africa will be in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of severe food shortages, failed harvest, rising food prices and conflict in the region.
(5) All the patients underwent oocyte retrieval and 94.3% of the harvested oocytes were preovulatory.
(6) Two ejaculates were harvested by electroejaculation on each of 3 d per week for 14 wk from 14, 12- to 24-mo-old Holstein bulls.
(7) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.
(8) These experiments concerned the clinical observation of the rats, their body weight and food intake, the relative weights of their lungs, liver, kidneys and spleen, the number and activity of their alveolar macrophages harvested by pulmonary washing.
(9) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
(10) Histologic analysis was performed on specimens from the harvested soft tissue.
(11) In addition to recruiting donors, physicians are responsible for maintaining optimal organ function in a beating heart organ donor to ensure that all organs that could potentially be harvested are in a condition suitable for transplant.
(12) We describe a surgical technique that makes use of the lower trapezius flap with inclusion of the dorsal scapular artery; this technique greatly extends the usefulness of the lower trapezius flap, while decreasing the morbidity caused by division of the upper portion of the trapezius muscle during flap harvest.
(13) The concentration of G-CSF in supernatants from cells stimulated with both IL-1 and IL-4 was at least tenfold higher than that measured in supernatants harvested from cells stimulated with either IL-1 or IL-4 alone.
(14) During five separate excursions (1989-90), observations were made of occurrence, harvesting, use, and marketing of psychoactive fungi by local Thai natives (males and females, adults and children), foreign tourists, and German immigrants.
(15) Tumours harvested after 3 weeks growth in donors, became cystic and had a scanty arterial supply.In both groups there was no portal circulation to the tumours' deposits.It is suggested that prior to intra-arterial treatment of cancer in the liver, the morphology of the tumour should be assessed.
(16) Following incubation, the monolayer was washed, and the cells were harvested and analyzed for crystal internalization.
(17) Western blotting experiments indicate that subunit IV is not a contaminating light-harvesting complex polypeptide.
(18) Under stimulation by AA, a significant decrease in the PGI2 production of the specimens was seen 120 minutes after harvesting.
(19) However, combining anti-dodecon and anti-hexon sera or producing antisera against the combined dodecon-hexon components resulted in neutralizing titers which were identical to titers obtained with antisera against the crude virus harvests.
(20) Human fibroblast cell lines were pulse-treated for 1 h with either methylnitrosourea (MNU) or ethylnitrosourea (ENU) at various time intervals before harvesting for chromosome analysis.