harvest

Definition of harvest in English English dictionary: To be occupied bringing in a harvest
Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation.; To win, achieve a gain
The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21.; The process of harvesting, gathering the ripened crop; To bring in a harvest; reap; glean; The yield of harvesting, i.e. the gathered, cut ... fruits of horti- or agri-culture (usually a food - or industrial crop)
This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest disastrous.; A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season; The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward; {v} to gather ripe corn, whether wheat or maiz; {n} the season for gathering ripe corn, the crop gathered; An obsolete NSA computer system used to monitor telegraph traffic; The total number or poundage of fish caught and kept from an area over a period of time Note that landings, catch, and harvest are different; The yield of harvesting (usually a food crop.); or fruit; 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; Harvesting of the grapes; 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; The process of threshing or picking a grain crop by a large machine called a combine It can also refer to picking vegetable and fruit crops by hand; {f} reap, gather in ripe crops; catch, gather (fish); {i} reaping, gathering in of crops; time of the year when crops are gathered; amount of crops gathered in a season; outcome, product; A general term for the removal of trees; The cutting, felling, and gathering of forest timber; To gather a crop As used in FORESTS, TREES & WOOD, harvesting trees for wood products; Fish that are caught and retained in a fishery (consumptive harvest); term used to describe retrieval of a donor organ; the yield from plants in a single growing season; An information discovery and access system for the Internet Internet from the University of Colorado; To reap or gather, as any crop; An information discovery and access system; the season for gathering crops; That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain wheat, maize, etc; Software developed by the GEM Consortium that collects metadata from cataloged records and translates it into syntax that can be read by the Browse Builder (See Browse Builder); The harvest is the gathering of a crop. There were about 300 million tons of grain in the fields at the start of the harvest; The total number or poundage of fish caught and kept from an area over a period of time Note that landings, catch, and harvest are different terms; Removing some or all of the trees on an area whether for income, regeneration of a stand or to achieve the development of special wildlife habitat needs; same as Exit strategy; the consequence of an effort or activity; "they gathered a harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love"; the gathering of a ripened crop; When you harvest a crop, you gather it in. Many farmers are refusing to harvest the cane. freshly harvested beetroot. + harvesting har·vest·ing war is hampering harvesting and the distribution of food aid. to gather crops from the fields; the time when graduation from one density to another is appropriate Our Earth's third density is in such a harvest season now; A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox; An architecture for searching for data on the Internet developed at the University of Colorado The architecture combines information "gatherers" located on servers and information "brokers" which communicate with gatherers and other brokers in their search for information Harvest uses far less network bandwidth and index space than other search architectures and can work with a variety of search engines and search protocols See metadata; gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"; In general use, removing all or portions of the trees on an area It can mean removing trees on an area to 1) obtain income, 2) develop the environment necessary to regenerate the forest, and on occasions, 3) to achieve special objectives such as development of special wildlife habitat needs Contrast with intermediate cuttings; A harvest is the crop that is gathered in. Millions of people are threatened with starvation as a result of drought and poor harvests; A night once in a century when The Master can draw power from one of his minions while it feeds; A research project that developed an architecture for distributed searching, including protocols and formats; to bring in; reap; glean; managed removal of trees by selective or complete harvest methods; the season for gathering crops the gathering of a ripened crop the consequence of an effort or activity; "they gathered a harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love"; The act of removing shellstock from growing waters and placing the shellstock on or in a manmade conveyance or other means of transport (2); A silvicultural treatment that is intended to establish regeneration A harvest is generally a higher level of cutting intensity than a thinning; A colloquial term for a business strategy in which a company focuses on short-term profits without regard for a product's long-term success; to gather mature crops (verb); mature crops (noun)
Harvest Festival: church festival celebrating the harvest, held at the end of September or the beginning of October
harvest festival: Alternative spelling of Harvest Festival
harvest mite: any of various mites of the genus Trombicula. Inhabiting forests and grasslands, in their larval stage they attach to various animals including humans and feed on skin, often causing itching
harvest mites: plural form of harvest mite
harvest moon: The full moon nearest the autumn equinox, when the moon rises the latest and lowest in the sky and seems to appear the biggest, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere
harvest moon: The first full moon of autumn by a tropical year
harvest mouse: A species of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice)
harvest time: The time of year during which which harvest occurs
harvest times: plural form of harvest time
harvest-home: {n} a song at the end of the harvest
harvest moon: The full moon that occurs nearest the autumnal equinox
harvest bug: {i} chigger, parasitic larvae of mites
harvest festival: A harvest festival is a Christian church service held every autumn to thank God for the harvest. a church service held in the autumn to thank God for the harvest thanksgiving
harvest festival: holiday that celebrates the gathering in of the crops
harvest fly: Any of several cicadas of the genus Tibicen that produce a shrill sound heard late in summer
harvest home: harvest: the gathering of a ripened crop
harvest mite: larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
harvest moon: the full moon nearest the September equinox
harvest moon: full moon occurring at or near harvest time (around September 23); harvest month
harvest mouse: small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e g cornfields
harvest mouse: small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e
harvest mouse: cornfields
harvest mouse: any of several small grayish New World mice inhabiting e g grain fields
harvest-lice: erect perennial Old World herb of dry grassy habitats
harvester: A machine that gathers the harvest
harvesting: The gathering of a mature crop, a harvest
American harvest mouse: any of several small grayish New World mice inhabiting e g grain fields
american harvest mouse: any of several small grayish New World mice inhabiting e
american harvest mouse: grain fields
bumper harvest: {i} large and plentiful harvest
harvestable: {s} able to be harvested, able to be gathered in
harvested: past of harvest
harvester: You can refer to a person who cuts, picks, or gathers crops as a harvester. someone who gathers crops combine harvester combine (1)
harvester: A person who gathers the harvest
harvester: farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields someone who helps to gather the harvest
harvester: {i} reaper, crop gatherer, one who harvests; reaping machine
harvester: farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
harvester: A harvester is a machine which cuts and often collects crops such as wheat, maize, or vegetables. see also combine harvester
harvester: someone who helps to gather the harvest
harvester: One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper
harvester: A harvesting ant
harvesting: from Harvest, v
harvesting: the gathering of a ripened crop
harvesting: The practice of felling and removing trees or the removal of dead or damaged trees from an area
harvesting: Gathering information from various websites
harvesting: A euphemism for killing or collecting that takes place under a management plan when a species in a particular area becomes a nuisance, or is stressed or diseased because of overpopulation and accompanying food shortages Also refers to a commercial use, such as pine-tree harvesting
harvesting: Harvesting is most often referring to selling a business or product line, as when a company sells a product line or division or a family sells a business Harvesting is also occasionally used to refer to sales of a product or product line towards the end of a product life cycle
harvesting: present participle of harvest
harvesting: Removing compost from the composting environment for use in the landscape, lawn or garden
harvesting: {i} practice of chopping down and removing trees, removal of damaged or dead trees from an area; removal of cells or tissue from a donor and preserving them for research or transplantation (Medicine); reaping, harvest, gathering of crops
harvesting: The cutting and removal of trees from a forested area
harvesting: The felling, skidding, processing, loading, and transporting of forest products
harvesting: A loose term for removing produce (i e , a merchantable material) from the forest for utilization; cutting, sometimes further initial processing (e g , with trees, topping and trimming) and extraction (removal from the forest)
harvesting: Involves all activities required in the removal of both timber and non-timber forest products from the forest, including on-site treatments to prepare the products for transport to primary processing sites
harvesting: picking or gathering of products, agricultural and fishing
harvesting: Timber felling and haulage to roadside stockpiles
harvesting: The process used to compile mailing lists by reading the from address of newsgroup messages
harvests: third-person singular of harvest
harvests: plural of harvest
olive-harvest: yield of olives, olive crop, amount of olives harvested

harvest

Hyphenation

har·vest

Turkish pronunciation

härvıst

Synonyms

crop, autumn, by-product, consequence, cropping, effect, fall, fruitage, fruition, garnering, gathering, harvesting, harvest-time, ingathering, intake

Antonyms

plant, seed

Pronunciation

/ˈhärvəst/ /ˈhɑːrvəst/

Etymology

[ 'här-v&st ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English hervest, from Old English hærfest; cognate with Latin carpere 'to seize', Greek καρπός (karpos, “fruit”) and κείρω (keirō, “to cut off”).