glean (verb)

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• glean — ► VERB 1) collect gradually from various sources. 2) historical gather (leftover grain) after a harvest. DERIVATIVES gleaner noun. ORIGIN Latin glennare …   English terms dictionary

• glean´er — glean «gleen», transitive verb. 1. to gather (stalks of grain, ears of corn, or the like) left on a field by reapers: »They gleaned enough potatoes from the field after harvest to fill a large sack. 2. to strip (a field) of grain, corn, or the… …   Useful english dictionary

• glean — verb 1 (T) to find out facts and information slowly and with difficulty: glean sth from: I ve managed to glean a few details about him from his friends. 2 (I, T) to collect grain that has been left behind after the crops have been cut …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• glean — verb /ɡliːn/ a) To harvest grain left behind after the crop has been reaped. Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. b) To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit… …   Wiktionary

• glean — I verb accumulate, aggregate, amass, assemble, batch together, bring together, collect, cull, cumulate, draw together, extract, facere, garner, gather, harvest, lay in store, obtain, pick up, procure, save, scrape together II index acquire… …   Law dictionary

• glean — verb Glean is used with these nouns as the object: ↑information, ↑insight …   Collocations dictionary

• glean — [ glin ] verb 1. ) transitive FORMAL to learn small pieces of information by asking questions or watching or listening carefully: GARNER: Their decisions were based on financial information gleaned from the Internet. 2. ) intransitive or… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• 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 — 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

• 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

• glean — /glin / (say gleen) verb (t) 1. to gather slowly and laboriously in bits. 2. to gather (grain, etc.) after the reapers or regular gatherers. 3. to discover or find out. –verb (i) 4. to collect or gather anything little by little or slowly. 5. to… …