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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
har·vest       [hahr-vist] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Also, har·vest·ing. the gathering of crops.
2.the season when ripened crops are gathered.
3.a crop or yield of one growing season.
4.a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored: a harvest of wheat.
5.the result or consequence of any act, process, or event: The journey yielded a harvest of wonderful memories.
–verb (used with object)
6.to gather (a crop or the like); reap.
7.to gather the crop from: to harvest the fields.
8.to gain, win, acquire, or use (a prize, product, or result of any past act, process, plan, etc.).
9.to catch, take, or remove for use: Fishermen harvested hundreds of salmon from the river.
–verb (used without object)
10.to gather a crop; reap.
[Origin: bef. 950; ME; OE hærfest; c. G Herbst autumn; akin to harrow1]

—Related forms
har·vest·a·ble, adjective
har·vest·a·bil·i·ty, noun
har·vest·less, adjective

—Synonyms 3. See crop. 5. accumulation, collection, product, return, proceeds.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
har·vest       (här'vĭst)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The act or process of gathering a crop.
    1. The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.
    2. The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season.
    3. The time or season of such gathering.
  3. The result or consequence of an activity.

v.   har·vest·ed, har·vest·ing, har·vests

v.   tr.
    1. To gather (a crop).
    2. To take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control.
    3. To extract from a culture or a living or recently deceased body, especially for transplantation: harvested bone marrow.
  2. To gather a crop from.
  3. To receive (the benefits or consequences of an action). See Synonyms at reap.

v.   intr.
To gather a crop.


[Middle English, from Old English hærfest; see kerp- in Indo-European roots.]

har'vest·a·ble adj., har'vest·a·bil'i·ty n.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
harvest 
O.E. hærfest "autumn," from P.Gmc. *kharbitas (cf. O.S. hervist, Du. herfst, Ger. Herbst "autumn," O.N. haust "harvest"), from PIE *kerp- "to gather, pluck, harvest" (cf. Skt. krpana- "sword," krpani "shears;" Gk. karpos "fruit," karpizomai "make harvest of;" L. carpere "to cut, divide, pluck;" Lith. kerpu "cut;" M.Ir. cerbaim "cut"). The borrowing of autumn and fall gradually focused its meaning after 14c. from "the time of gathering crops" to the action itself and the product of the action. Harvester "machine for reaping and binding" is from 1875; harvest home (1596) is the occasion of bringing home the last of the harvest; harvest moon (1706) is that which is full within a fortnight of the autumnal equinox.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
harvest

noun
1. the yield from plants in a single growing season [syn: crop] 
2. the consequence of an effort or activity; "they gathered a harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love" 
3. the gathering of a ripened crop 
4. the season for gathering crops 

verb
1. gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" [syn: reap] 
2. 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" 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

Harvest tool, networking
A highly scalable, customisable system for discovering resources on the Internet.
Version: 1.3.
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Harvest, AL (CDP, FIPS 33472) Location: 34.85562 N, 86.74989 W
Population (1990): 1922 (717 housing units)
Area: 32.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 35749

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Harvest

Car"pet\ (k[aum]r"p[e^]t), n. [OF. carpite rug, soft of cloth, F. carpette coarse packing cloth, rug (cf. It. carpita rug, blanket), LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card (wool); cf. Gr. karpo`s fruit, E. Harvest.]

1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables.

Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets. --T. Fuller.

2. A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet. "The grassy carpet of this plain." --Shak.

Carpet beetle or Carpet bug (Zo["o]l.), a small beetle (Anthrenus scrophulari[ae]), which, in the larval state, does great damage to carpets and other woolen goods; -- also called buffalo bug.

Carpet knight. (a) A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of the drawing room; an effeminate person. --Shak. (b) One made a knight, for some other than military distinction or service.

Carpet moth (Zo["o]l.), the larva of an insect which feeds on carpets and other woolen goods. There are several kinds. Some are the larv[ae] of species of Tinea (as T. tapetzella); others of beetles, esp. Anthrenus.

Carpet snake (Zo["o]l.), an Australian snake. See Diamond snake, under Diamond.

Carpet sweeper, an apparatus or device for sweeping carpets.

To be on the carpet, to be under consideration; to be the subject of deliberation; to be in sight; -- an expression derived from the use of carpets as table cover.

Brussels carpet. See under Brussels.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Harvest

Ex*cerp"\, v. t. [L. excerpere, excerptum; ex out + carpere to pick, gather. See Harvest, and cf. Scarce, a.] To pick out. [Obs.] --Hales.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Harvest

the season for gathering grain or fruit. On the 16th day of Abib (or April) a handful of ripe ears of corn was offered as a first-fruit before the Lord, and immediately after this the harvest commenced (Lev. 23:9-14; 2 Sam. 21:9, 10; Ruth 2:23). It began with the feast of Passover and ended with Pentecost, thus lasting for seven weeks (Ex. 23:16). The harvest was a season of joy (Ps. 126:1-6; Isa. 9:3). This word is used figuratively Matt. 9:37; 13:30; Luke 10:2; John 4:35. (See AGRICULTURE.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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On-line Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

harvest

harvest: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary

On-line Medical Dictionary, © 1997-98 Academic Medical Publishing & CancerWEB
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