Definitions for glean
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. reap, harvest, gleanverb

   gather, as of natural products

   "harvest the grapes"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. gleanverb

   To harvest grain left behind after the crop has been reaped.

2. gleanverb

   To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.

3. Etymology: From glenen, from glener, from gleno, from.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gleannoun

   Collection made laboriously by slow degrees.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   Plains, meads, and orchards all the day he plies;
   The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs:
   He spoils the saffron. John Dryden, Virg. Georg. b. iv.

2. To GLEANverb

   Etymology: glaner, French, as Stephen Skinner thinks, from granum.

   1. To gather what the gatherers of the harvest leave behind.

   She came and gleaned in the field after the reapers. Ruth ii.

   Cheap conquest for his following friends remain’d;
   He reap’d the field, and they but only glean’d. Dryden.

   She went, by hard necessity compell’d,
   To glean Palæmon’s fields. James Thomson, Autumn.

   2. To gather any thing thinly scattered.

   Gather
   So much as from occasions you may glean,
   If aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   That goodness
   Of gleaning all the land’s wealth into one,
   Into your own hands, card’nal, by extortion. William Shakespeare, H. VIII.

   They gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men. Judg. xx. 45.

   But Argive chiefs, and Agamemnon’s train,
   When his refulgent arms flash’d through the shady plain,
   Fled from his well-known face with wonted fear;
   As when his thund’ring sword and pointed spear
   Drove headlong to their ships, and glean’d the routed rear. John Dryden, Æn. b. vi.

   In the knowledge of bodies we must be content to glean what we can from particular experiments; since we cannot, from a discovery of their real essences, grasp at a time whole sheaves, and in bundles comprehend the nature and properties of whole species together. John Locke.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. glean

   Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest. It is a practice described in the Hebrew Bible that became a legally enforced entitlement of the poor in a number of Christian kingdoms. Modern day "dumpster diving", when done for food or culinary ingredients, is seen as a similar form of food recovery. Gleaning is also still used today to provide nutritious harvested foods for those in need. It is modernly used due to a need for a national network to aid food recovery organizations in the United States. This is called the National Gleaning Project which was started by the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School to aid those less fortunate much like the old Christian Kingdoms.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. glean

   Glean is to gather or collect (something, often information or details) gradually or bit by bit, often with difficulty. This term was originally used in the context of agriculture, referring to the act of gathering leftover grain or crops after a harvest.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gleanverb

   to gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering

2. Gleanverb

   to gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left

3. Gleanverb

   to collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain

4. Gleanverb

   to gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers

5. Gleanverb

   to pick up or gather anything by degrees

6. Gleannoun

   a collection made by gleaning

7. Gleannoun

   cleaning; afterbirth

8. Etymology: [OE. glenen, OF. glener, glaner, F. glaner, fr. LL. glenare; cf. W. glan clean, glanhu to clean, purify, or AS. gelm, gilm, a handul.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Glean

   glēn, v.t. to gather in handfuls after the reapers: to collect (what is thinly scattered).—v.i. to gather the corn left by a reaper.—n. that which is gleaned: the act of gleaning.—ns. Glean′er; Glean′ing. [O. Fr. glener (Fr. glaner), through Low L. glenāre, glena, from Teut.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GLEAN

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Glean is ranked #130610 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Glean surname appeared 130 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Glean.
   
   54.6% or 71 total occurrences were Black.
   19.2% or 25 total occurrences were White.
   13% or 17 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   10% or 13 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

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Anagrams for glean »

1. genal

2. angle

3. angel

4. galen

5. agnel

6. lagen

How to pronounce glean?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of glean in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of glean in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of glean in a Sentence

1. Jordan Belfort:

   No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

2. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   History is a sagacious narrator, softly imparting its wisdom to those who are willing to glean lessons from the echoes of bygone eras.

3. Nanette Wenger:

   They're looking really at the correlation between the emergency room doctor, who was really the triage doctor who decides to admit the patient to the hospital, and it's a very limited look, i'm not sure what we can glean from it.

4. Eric Creizman:

   Our client maintained his innocence since day one, so we went to trial and put up the best fight we possibly could, it was a well tried case, an interesting case, because the whole thing was what they could glean from his state of mind from things he did, on the Internet and on the computer.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=glean
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Glean
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=glean
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glean
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glean
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=glean
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html