What's the difference between harvester and reap?

Harvester


Definition:

  • (n.) One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.
  • (n.) A harvesting ant.

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.

Reap


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
  • (v. t.) To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
  • (v. t.) To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
  • (v. t.) To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
  • (v. i.) To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
  • (v.) A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
  • (2) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
  • (3) Sydney defender Jacques Faty constantly seems a defensive accident waiting to happen, while the club are yet to reap full dividend from their attacking imports at the other end of the field.
  • (4) High quality display devices are essential to reap any benefits from degradation correction.
  • (5) Hillary Clinton has a message for Republicans bemoaning the rise of Donald Trump: “You reap what you sow.” In a speech on Monday, the former secretary of state blamed Republicans’ obstructionism, which she said fomented Trump’s incendiary campaign.
  • (6) Amid heightening debate about the future of the two bailed-out banks, Stephen Williams, who was the first Lib Dem MP to lend his support to the distribution of shares to all taxpayers, said: "My Lib Dem colleagues and I will not stand by and watch private investors reap all of the benefits once the banks are taken off taxpayer intensive care.
  • (7) With a solid business environment, supportive policies and the right outcome from Brexit negotiations allowing for trade and ongoing access to skilled workers, manufacturers should be able to overcome the risks, reap future growth rewards and get their business confidence back on track,” it added.
  • (8) Maybe the first party to dump its leader will reap the advantages of the pioneer, but such changes are often messy and divisive.
  • (9) Reaping the benefits of a successful speech to Iowa conservatives the preceding weekend, Walker leapfrogged more established candidates and secured 15% of the vote – up from 4% in October.
  • (10) David Connell Senior research fellow, UK Innovation Research Centre, University of Cambridge, and Chairman, Archipelago Technology • I hope the new £61m National Graphene Institute at Manchester will reap some rewards ( Letters , 5 December).
  • (11) Add to that the news about unemployment; now down to 7.1% , and rising house prices, and the news that the Bank of England will not soon raise interest rates , and one sees how the prime minister is able to frame a narrative about how the strictures of austerity are beginning to reap the benefits.
  • (12) Allen may be reaping the reward of keeping non-Italian press out of the first screenings (the version released in Italy has a dubbed dialogue track, which Allen is known to dislike) as he tends to get a better response from non-native critics, who are less attentive to implausible details.
  • (13) Can we see it all the way through to reap the long-term benefits – as individuals, as a society, as humanity?
  • (14) It means a Green Investment Bank and Carbon Capture and Storage so we reap the financial rewards of the green energy revolution.
  • (15) Inevitably, it looks as though corners have been cut and supermarkets will reap the whirlwind in reputational damage.
  • (16) This is the state reaping rewards for years of policy … [It may be] that officials are going further than Beijing expects, but that this is working on top of what is already a volcano."
  • (17) But on the morning of 26 March 1996, as his team was preparing to start clearance work in a village in the province of Siem Reap, a group of 30 armed Khmer Rouge guerrillas emerged from the nearby forest.
  • (18) The applications described here demonstrate new ways that the VA is reaping benefits from its infrastructure and its compatible integrated hospital information systems located at its facilities.
  • (19) Care home employees often work long hours and their jobs can be challenging – any employer who recognises this by paying their lowest paid staff no less than the living wage will certainly reap the benefits,” she says.
  • (20) His office says work in countries such as Kazakhstan helps fund pro bono work in Africa – and it dismisses reports of reaping £16m in fees from Astana as inflated, and says Blair makes no personal profit.

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