What's the difference between harvesting and threshing?

Harvesting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harvest
  • () a. & n., from Harvest, v. t.

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.

Threshing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thresh

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In late July and early August 1990, an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred among persons who had eaten a meal while attending an agricultural threshing show in North Dakota on July 28-29.
  • (2) In Nepal, the traditional way to process rice is to use the same cows that plow the field – they thresh rice by walking over the stalks.
  • (3) I don’t think I can continue with something that is no longer moving forward.” If he does, it will spell the end for a collection that spans the 93 years since paper discs were introduced in 1921 and includes samples from fire engines, ambulances and threshing machines.
  • (4) Farmer's lung, caused by the inhalation of microspores--particularly of the genus, Thermoactinomyces--has been recognised for the past 30-40 years as a condition affecting adult farm workers, especially up to the mid-sixties when undried crops were still threshed indoors.
  • (5) 50 patients acquired the infection during common farming activities, such as making fresh hay with a hay-cutter, handling dry hay, threshing, etc.
  • (6) The following substances were found to play a causal role in the development of asthma in exposed persons: penicillin dust, dust inhaled during the threshing of grain, persulfate, formalin, inorganic cooling agents.
  • (7) At the onset of sweating, the tympanic threshold temperature (Tty,thresh) was higher in the L phase [37.18 (SEM 0.08) degrees C] than in the F phase [36.95 (SEM 0.07) degrees C; P less than 0.01].
  • (8) Women and children play behind the high mud walls of the old houses, the men thresh the wheat, teenagers pick walnuts and the water coming straight off the snowy mountains high above the village gurgles through the irrigation canals.
  • (9) Three neat rows of long grass in his garden are purple free-threshing spelt, grown from the "one handful of the seed in the world".
  • (10) A 5% level of significance was statistically recognized in the thresh old at 35 min after light adaptation between the stages IIIa and IIIb of retinopathy.
  • (11) Heydi had fallen in a rice-threshing machine as a baby and suffered permanent brain damage.
  • (12) The magnitude of the shift in Tty,thresh [0.23 (SEM 0.07) degrees C] was similar to the L-F difference in Tty observed at the end of the N exposure.
  • (13) The chef spent several hours studying Forbes's Heath Robinson set-up – including a threshing machine made out of BMX bike rims, scooter wheels, a Chinese sewing machine, and a rubber mat used for wiping shoes outside hospitals – and announced he would buy as much bread as Forbes was willing to sell.
  • (14) There are small businesses that provide a mobile threshing service, reducing post-harvest losses to less than 20%.

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