harvest

[HarĀ·vest]

The harvest is the time when you reap what you sow. As a verb, to harvest something means that you pick or gather it. You might harvest your sweet corn late in the summer.

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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.

Noun
the season for gathering crops

Noun
the gathering of a ripened crop

Noun
the consequence of an effort or activity; "they gathered a harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love"

Noun
the yield from plants in a single growing season

Verb
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"

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Verb
gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"


n.
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.

n.
That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath//ed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.

n.
The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.

v. t.
To reap or gather, as any crop.


Harvest

Har"vest , n. [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. h'91rfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. carpere to pluck, Gr. 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.
Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease.
At harvest, when corn is ripe.
2. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.
3. The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.
The harvest of a quiet eye.
Harvest fish (Zo'94l.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish. -- Harvest fly (Zo'94l.), an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada. -- Harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.] Tusser. -- Harvest mite (Zo'94l.), 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 (Zo'94l.), 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 pepresenting Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. Milton. -- Harvest spider. (Zo'94l.) See Daddy longlegs.

Harvest

Har"vest, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n. Harvesting.] To reap or gather, as any crop.

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.

To reap or gather, as any crop.

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Usage Examples

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

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