gleaning (verb)

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• glean — verb Etymology: Middle English glenen, from Anglo French glener, from Late Latin glennare, of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish doglenn he selects Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. to gather grain or other produce left by reapers 2. to… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• glean — [[t]gli͟ːn[/t]] gleans, gleaning, gleaned VERB If you glean something such as information or knowledge, you learn or collect it slowly and patiently, and perhaps indirectly. [V n from n] At present we re gleaning information from all sources...… …   English dictionary

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• crop — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. craw, gorge; whip; harvest, yield, fruit, product. See effect, punishment, agriculture. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. harvest, yield, produce, product, growth, annual production, reaping, agricultural… …   English dictionary for students

• rake — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. gather, collect; comb, ransack, search, rummage; enfilade, spray with bullets; incline, slope. See assemblage. n. libertine, roué, rakehell; slope, ramp. See cleanness, obliquity, agriculture. II… …   English dictionary for students

• glean — UK [ɡliːn] / US [ɡlɪn] verb Word forms glean : present tense I/you/we/they glean he/she/it gleans present participle gleaning past tense gleaned past participle gleaned 1) [transitive] to learn small pieces of information by asking questions or… …   English dictionary