What does REAP mean?
Definitions for REAP
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Princeton's WordNet
reap, harvest, gleanverb
gather, as of natural products
"harvest the grapes"
reap, drawverb
get or derive
"He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"
Wiktionary
reapnoun
A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
reapverb
To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
reapverb
To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
reapverb
Act of a parent process acknowledging that its child process has exited, thereby removing it from the process table. Until the child process is reaped it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
reapverb
To deprive of the beard; to shave.
Etymology: repen, from ripan, from rīpanan (compare repe, reifsen ‘to snatch’, ripa ‘to score, scratch’), from h₁rep- ‘to snatch’ (compare rapere ‘to seize, plunder’, apaprépti 'to seize, embrace', rrjep ‘to peel, tear off’, Ancient Greek ἐρέπτομαι).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To REAPverb
Etymology: repan , Saxon.
From Ireland come I with my strength,
And reap the harvest which that rascal sow’d. William Shakespeare.When ye reap the harvest, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field. Lev. xix. 9.
The hire of the labourers, which have reaped down your fields, is kept back by fraud. Ja. v. 5.
Is it fitting in this very field,
Where I so oft have reap’d, so oft have till’d,
That I should die for a deserter? John Gay.They that love the religion which they profess, may have failed in choice, but yet they are sure to reap what benefit the same is able to afford. Richard Hooker.
What sudden anger’s this? how have I reap’d it? William Shakespeare.
This is a thing,
Which you might from relation likewise reap,
Being much spoke of. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.Our sins being ripe, there was no preventing of God’s justice from reaping that glory in our calamities, which we robbed him of in our prosperity. Charles I .
To Reapverb
To harvest.
They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy. Psalm cxxvi. 5.
ChatGPT
reap
To reap means to gather or collect, often referring to crops or benefits as a result of one's actions or efforts. This term is frequently used in the context of agriculture, where it involves harvesting mature crops from the fields. However, it's also used metaphorically to denote receiving the results or consequences of something.
Webster Dictionary
Reapverb
to cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting
Reapverb
to gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions
Reapverb
to clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field
Reapverb
to deprive of the beard; to shave
Reapverb
to perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest
Reap
a bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut
Etymology: [OE. repen, AS. rpan to seize, reap; cf. D. rapen to glean, reap, G. raufen to pluck, Goth. raupjan, or E. ripe.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Reap
rēp, v.t. to cut down, as grain: to clear off a crop: to gather by effort: to receive as a reward: to obtain a harvest.—ns. Reap′er, Reap′man; Reap′ing-hook, a hook-shaped instrument, with a handle, for cutting grain: a sickle; Reap′ing-machine′, a machine for cutting grain, drawn by horses, &c.; Reap′-sil′ver, money paid by feudal tenants as a commutation for their services in reaping the crops. [A.S. rípan, to pluck; Goth. raupjan, Ger. raufen.]
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
REAP
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Reap is ranked #33164 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Reap surname appeared 690 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Reap.
85.5% or 590 total occurrences were White.
9.4% or 65 total occurrences were Black.
2.7% or 19 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.3% or 9 total occurrences were Asian.
Anagrams for REAP »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of REAP in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of REAP in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of REAP in a Sentence
It may take six to 12 months for investors to reap the rewards of post-halving price movements, in reality, there is a significant time lag between the halving event and the establishment of renewed market equilibrium based on general supply and demand.
Our nation of Solomon Islands is bound to reap huge benefits never seen before in the history of our young nation, in this new relationship with PRC.
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.
Sow an act...reap a habit Sow a habit...reap a character Sow a character...reap a destiny.
I stop. My heart's racing. My inner critic is louder than ever -- great, Matt, now you're about to reap what you've sown.
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- حصدArabic
- жаць, пажынацьBelarusian
- жънаBulgarian
- segarCatalan, Valencian
- kosit, žnout, žítCzech
- жѧтиOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- ernten, schneidenGerman
- cosechar, segarSpanish
- درو کردنPersian
- korjata, niittää, saadaFinnish
- faucher, moissonnerFrench
- buainScottish Gaelic
- काटनाHindi
- raccogliere, mietereItalian
- 刈る, 刈り取るJapanese
- dēmetō, tondeō, metōLatin
- жнееMacedonian
- oogstenDutch
- høsteNorwegian
- dalharOccitan
- żąć, kosićPolish
- colher, ceifarPortuguese
- sger, sagear, saer, segar, sgiarRomansh
- seceraRomanian
- пожинать, косить, жать, по, сжать, пожать, скоситьRussian
- mensare, mentzare, massai, messaiSardinian
- žeti, жетиSerbo-Croatian
- kosiť, žaťSlovak
- žétiSlovene
- skördaSwedish
- เก็บเกี่ยวThai
- жати, пожинатиUkrainian
- کاٹناUrdu
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