harvest

harvest
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noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ abundant (esp. AmE), bountiful, bumper, good, large, rich
▪

We've had a bumper harvest of apples this year.

▪

She returned from the conference with a rich harvest of knowledge. (figurative)

▪ bad, disastrous, poor
▪

a series of poor harvests in the 1830s

▪ cereal, corn, grain, potato, wheat, etc.
▪ final
VERB + HARVEST
▪ bring in, gather, gather in, get in, reap
▪

They were busy getting the harvest in.

▪

We are now reaping the harvest of our hard work last year. (figurative)

HARVEST + VERB
▪ fail
▪

The strawberry harvest failed because of the drought.

HARVEST + NOUN
▪ season (esp. AmE), time
▪ festival
PREPOSITION
▪ after (the) harvest
▪

Potatoes are normally sprayed after harvest.

▪ during harvest, during the harvest
▪

Potatoes often sustain damage during harvest.

▪

During the harvest they work from dawn to dusk.

▪ harvest of
▪

a good harvest of potatoes

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verb
Harvest is used with these nouns as the object: ↑barley, ↑coconut, ↑corn, ↑crop, ↑grape, ↑hay, ↑oats, ↑organ, ↑rice, ↑timber, ↑wheat

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  • Harvest — Har vest (h[aum]r v[e^]st), n. [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. h[ae]rfest 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Harvest — (eng. Ernte) steht für: Harvest (Alabama), Ort in Alabama Harvest (Album), ein Musikalbum von Neil Young Harvest (Naglfar Album), ein Musikalbum von Naglfar Harvest Records, ein Plattenlabel Harvest (Film), ein Dokumentarfilm Siehe auch:… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Harvest — 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… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • 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 …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • harvest — [n] crops; taking in of crops autumn, by product, consequence, cropping, effect, fall, fruitage, fruition, garnering, gathering, harvesting, harvest time, ingathering, intake, output, produce, reaping, repercussion, result, return, season,… …   New thesaurus

  • harvest — ► NOUN 1) the process or period of gathering in crops. 2) the season s yield or crop. ► VERB ▪ gather as a harvest. DERIVATIVES harvestable adjective harvester noun. ORIGIN Old English, «autumn» …   English terms dictionary

  • harvest — [här′vist] n. [ME hervest < OE hærfest, akin to Ger herbst (OHG herbist) < IE * (s)kerp < base * (s)ker , to cut > SHEAR, SHORT, L caro, flesh, cernere & Gr krinein, to separate, karpos, fruit: basic sense “time of cutting”] 1. the… …   English World dictionary

  • Harvest — Har vest, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Harvested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Harvesting}.] To reap or gather, as any crop. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • harvest — index gain, glean, output, product, profit (noun), profit (verb), reap, result Burton s Legal Thesaurus …   Law dictionary

  • harvest — UK US /ˈhɑːvɪst/ verb [T] ► INTERNET, MARKETING to collect information about people, products, companies, etc. from the internet using a search engine (= a program that searches for particular words in documents on websites): »In computer jargon …   Financial and business terms

  • harvest — vb *reap, glean, gather, garner Analogous words: collect, assemble (see GATHER): *accumulate, amass, hoard …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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