Found 8 hits - Term: harvest, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
harvest \har"vest\, v. t. imp. p. p. harvested; p. pr.
vb. n. harvesting.
to reap or gather, as any crop.
1913 webster
see also:
harvested harvesting
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
harvest \har"vest\ haumr"ve^st, n. oe. harvest, hervest,
as. haerfest autumn; akin to lg. harfst, d. herfst, ohg.
herbist, g. herbst, and prob. to l. carpere to pluck, gr.
karpo`s fruit. cf. carpet.
1. the gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of
the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits,
late summer or early autumn.
1913 webster
seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease. --gen.
viii. 22.
1913 webster
at harvest, when corn is ripe. --tyndale.
1913 webster
2. that which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a
crop, as of grain wheat, maize, etc., or fruit.
1913 webster
put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
--joel iii.
13.
1913 webster
to glean the broken ears after the man
that the main harvest reaps. --shak.
1913 webster
3. the product or result of any exertion or labor; gain;
reward.
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the pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.
--fuller.
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the harvest of a quiet eye. --wordsworth.
1913 webster
harvest fish zool., a marine fish of the southern united
states stromateus alepidotus; -- called whiting in
virginia. also applied to the dollar fish.
harvest fly zool., an hemipterous insect of the genus
cicada, often called locust. see cicada.
harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. obs.
--tusser.
harvest mite zool., a minute european mite leptus
autumnalis, of a bright crimson color, which is
troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and domestic
animals; -- called also harvest louse, and harvest
bug.
harvest moon, the moon near the full at the time of harvest
in england, or about the autumnal equinox, when, by reason
of the small angle that is made by the moon's orbit with
the horizon, it rises nearly at the same hour for several
days.
harvest mouse zool., a very small european field mouse
mus minutus. it builds a globular nest on the stems of
wheat and other plants.
harvest queen, an image representing ceres, formerly
carried about on the last day of harvest. --milton.
harvest spider. zool. see daddy longlegs.
1913 webster
see also:
carpet harvest fish stromateus alepidotus whiting harvest fly cicada
locust harvest lord harvest mite leptus autumnalis harvest louse
harvest bug harvest moon harvest mouse mus minutus harvest queen
harvest spider daddy longlegs
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
harvest
n 1: the yield from plants in a single growing season syn: crop
2: the consequence of an effort or activity; "they gathered a
harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love"
3: the gathering of a ripened crop syn: harvesting, harvest
home
4: the season for gathering crops syn: harvest time
v 1: gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" syn: reap,
glean
2: remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the
purposes of transplantation; "the chinese are said to
harvest organs from executed criminals"
see also:
crop harvesting harvest home harvest time reap glean
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
127 moby thesaurus words for "harvest":
accumulate, acquire, aftermath, amass, assemble, autumn, bag,
be seized of, bearing, bin, bring in, bumper crop, by-product,
cache, capture, carve, catch, chisel, collect, come by,
come in for, come into, consequence, consequent, contract, convert,
corollary, corral, crop, crop herbs, cropping, cultivate, cut,
cutting, derivation, derivative, derive, development, dig,
distillate, drag down, draw, earn, effect, enter into possession,
event, eventuality, eventuation, extract, fall, fruit, gain,
garner, garnering, gather, gather in, gathering, get, glean,
gleaning, grabble, grow, harvest home, harvest time, harvesting,
hay, hide, hoard, ingathering, issue, legacy, logical outcome,
machine, make, mill, mine, mow, net, nut, nutting, obtain,
offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, output, pick, pluck,
precipitate, proceeds, process, procure, produce, product,
production, pull down, pump, raise, reap, reap and carry, reaping,
rear, receive, refine, result, resultant, sack, score, second crop,
secure, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, smelt, squirrel, stash,
store up, storing, stow away, take, take in, throughput, upshot,
vintage, win, yield
- [5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
harvest
a highly scalable, customisable system for
discovering resources on the internet.
version: 1.3.
home http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/harvest/.
1999-01-16
see also:
internet lt;homegt;
- [6] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
harvest
the season for gathering grain or fruit. on the 16th day of abib
or april a handful of ripe ears of corn was offered as a
first-fruit before the lord, and immediately after this the
harvest commenced lev. 23:9-14; 2 sam. 21:9, 10; ruth 2:23. it
began with the feast of passover and ended with pentecost, thus
lasting for seven weeks ex. 23:16. the harvest was a season of
joy ps. 126:1-6; isa. 9:3. this word is used figuratively
matt. 9:37; 13:30; luke 10:2; john 4:35. see agriculture.
see also:
agriculture
- [7] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
harvest, al cdp, fips 33472
location: 34.85562 n, 86.74989 w
population 1990: 1922 717 housing units
area: 32.2 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
zip codes: 35749
- [8] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
harvest, al -- u.s. census designated place in alabama
population 2000: 3054
housing units 2000: 1146
land area 2000: 12.423029 sq. miles 32.175497 sq. km
water area 2000: 0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
total area 2000: 12.423029 sq. miles 32.175497 sq. km
fips code: 33472
located within: alabama al, fips 01
location: 34.852827 n, 86.748047 w
zip codes 1990: 35749
note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
headwords:
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