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har⋅vest

  [hahr-vist]
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–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 harrow 1

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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har·vest   (här'vĭst)   
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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

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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Computing Dictionary

Harvest tool, networking
A highly scalable, customisable system for discovering resources on the Internet.
Version: 1.3.
(http://tardis.ed.ac.uk/harvest/).
(1999-01-16)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Bible Dictionary

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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