harvest vs reap what difference
what is difference between harvest and reap
English
Alternative forms
- harvist, hervest, harst, hairst (all obsolete or dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn, harvest-time; August”), from Proto-West Germanic *harbist, from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest-time, autumn, fall”), from *harbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/, /ˈhɑɹ.vɪst/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vɪst/, /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vəst/
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈhaːvəst/
Noun
harvest (countable and uncountable, plural harvests)
- (Britain dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
- The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
- The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
- The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
- This year’s cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous.
- 1911, Jack London, The Whale Tooth
- The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.
- (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
- The pope’s principal harvest was in the jubilee.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, A Poet’s Epitaph
- the harvest of a quiet eye
- (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
Synonyms
- (season of the year): autumn, fall
- (agricultural or horticultural yield): crop
Translations
Verb
harvest (third-person singular simple present harvests, present participle harvesting, simple past and past participle harvested)
- (transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
- (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest
- Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation
- (transitive) To win, achieve a gain.
- The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21
Translations
Derived terms
- harvestable
- harvestability
- harvestee
- harvester
- harvest bug
- harvest fish
- harvest fly
- harvest home
- harvest louse
- harvestly
- harvestman
- harvest mite
- harvest moon
- harvest mouse
- harvest queen
- harvest spider
- harvest time
Anagrams
- thraves
English
Etymology
From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: rēp, IPA(key): /ɹiːp/
- Rhymes: -iːp
Verb
reap (third-person singular simple present reaps, present participle reaping, simple past and past participle reaped or (obsolete) reapt)
- (transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
- (transitive) To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
- (transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
- (transitive, computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
- (transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
Derived terms
- reaper
- reap what one sows
- sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
Translations
Noun
reap (plural reaps)
- A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
Synonyms
- (bundle of grain): sheaf
Translations
Anagrams
- Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pare, pear, prae-, præ-, rape
