(n.) The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.
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gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.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.
Leftover
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(2) If using old leftovers feels a little wartime in its frugality: even better.
(3) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
(4) Verdict: Funded by leftovers from the 2010 funding deal, it means no top-slicing from the new licence fee agreement.
(5) Those that do exist bear Saudi Arabia's logo, but they are torn and thin – leftovers from a huge aid donation during cyclone Nargis.
(6) They weren't aware that MSG was what they'd liked in Japan - but the US Army catering staff noticed that their men enjoyed the leftover ration packs of the demobilised Japanese Army much more than they did their own, and began to ask why.
(7) We eat twice a day and snack at tea time, with leftovers and teas always available.
(8) Transport of leftover feed from infectious disease (IBD) farms to susceptible flocks on clean premises is believed to have played an important role in the transmission of this disease to new farms and to new areas.
(9) Hand washing with soap before meals by all family members protected against cholera (OR = 0.2, 95 percent CI 0.02-0.96), suggesting that persons asymptomatically infected with Vibrio cholerae 01 may have been the initial source for contamination of the leftover foods.
(10) Leftover food from the café is given to the “Tumbleweeds”, the bookshop’s resident writers.
(11) Consistent with this, was the fact that 37% were unaware of safe methods of disposal of leftover medicines.
(12) Then there are the "ethylene absorbing" discs you can place in a bowl to keep your fruit fresh for longer; the polyurethane foam cushions designed to prevent fruit and veg from becoming bruised; and the silicone "food huggers" into which you pop your leftover half a lemon or tomato.
(13) If this show wasn’t called Looking, it should have been called Heart to Hearts over Chinese Takeout Leftovers.
(14) 8.13pm BST Mary is being extremely naught in stealing Frances' leftovers.
(15) In his dust blue suit and shimmering yellow tie, he is rounder than he was in 2008 (eating too many of his children's leftovers).
(16) Salmonella infantis and enterotoxin-producing Staphylococcus aureus were both isolated from samples of leftover turkey, and S. infantis was isolated from 18 of 20 stool specimens.
(17) The shoot is catered, and afterwards Mom takes the leftovers and passes out the Brie and watercress sandwiches to her friends, shouting, 'Free yuppie food!'
(18) "Navalny carefully distanced himself from the shrill, old-guard western-friendly liberals – 'hellish, insane, crazy mass of the leftovers and bread crusts of the democracy movement of the 80s', he called them – who simply participated in Putin's cult of personality in reverse."
(19) To buy it from the Guardian Bookshop for £22.50, click here Uyen Luu’s seabass congee Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer With kale, ginger and dill Congee is a soup usually made from leftover cooked rice and is a breakfast favourite in Vietnam.
(20) Photograph: Kareem Shaheen for the Guardian The Guardian, the first western media organisation to visit the site of the attack, examined a warehouse and silos directly next to where the missile had landed, and found nothing but an abandoned space covered in dust and half-destroyed silos reeking of leftover grain and animal manure.