harvest
/'hɑ:vist/
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
Noun:
- The season for gathering crops: The time of year when ripe crops are collected from the fields.
- The gathering of a ripened crop: The act or process of collecting mature crops.
- The yield from plants in a single growing season: The total amount of a crop that is collected.
- The consequence of an effort or activity: The results or benefits gained from work or action.
Verb:
- To gather a ripened crop: To collect a mature crop from a field or plant.
- To remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation: To extract something, such as an organ, for medical use.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- The autumn harvest provides food for the winter.
- This year's wheat harvest was abundant.
- His years of research finally yielded a rich harvest of data.
- Verb:
- Farmers harvest corn in the fall.
- The surgeons will harvest the donor's kidneys.
Advanced Usage
- "To reap the harvest": To receive the benefits or results of one's past actions.
- After years of saving, they finally reaped the harvest of their frugality.
- "Harvest moon": The full moon that occurs nearest to the autumnal equinox, traditionally providing light for harvesting.
- We walked in the bright light of the harvest moon.
Variants and Related Words
- Harvester (n): A person or machine that gathers crops.
- The combine harvester moved through the field.
- Harvestable (adj): Ready or suitable to be harvested.
- The grapes are finally harvestable.
Synonyms
- Reap (v): To cut and gather a crop; to obtain as a result of effort.
- Yield (n): The amount of product produced.
- Crop (n): A cultivated plant that is grown and harvested.
Related Phrasal Verbs
(Note: "Harvest" is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. Its meaning is typically expressed directly.)
Related Idioms
- "You reap what you sow": Your actions, good or bad, will eventually have corresponding consequences. (This idiom is conceptually related to "harvest" but uses the synonym "reap".)
- If you treat people poorly, don't be surprised by loneliness; you reap what you sow.
Noun
- 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 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
- gather, as of natural products
- harvest the grapes