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GARNER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed

Synonyms:

garner; granary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("garner" is a kind of...):

depot; entrepot; storage; store; storehouse (a depository for goods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "garner"):

crib (a bin or granary for storing grains)

Derivation:

garner (store grain)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assemble or get together

Example:

pull your thoughts together

Synonyms:

collect; garner; gather; pull together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "garner"):

heap up; pile up; stack up (arrange into piles or stacks)

shock (collect or gather into shocks)

clam (gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean)

pearl (gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean)

sponge (gather sponges, in the ocean)

oyster (gather oysters, dig oysters)

nest (gather nests)

bird-nest; birdnest (gather birdnests)

snail (gather snails)

nut (gather nuts)

cull; pick; pluck (look for and gather)

round up (seek out and bring together)

come up; muster; muster up; rally; summon (gather or bring together)

salvage; scavenge (collect discarded material)

hive (gather into a hive)

club (gather into a club-like mass)

glean; harvest; reap (gather, as of natural products)

rake (gather with a rake)

marshal; mobilise; mobilize; summon (make ready for action or use)

Sentence frames:

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Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Store grain

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "garner" is one way to...):

store (find a place for and put away for storage)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

garner (a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions

Example:

its beauty won Paris the name 'City of Lights'

Synonyms:

earn; garner; win

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "garner" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "garner"):

letter (win an athletic letter)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Once Mars moves into your love sector from February 16 until March 30, your popularity in matters of the heart will be so strong that as a modest Virgo, you might be bewildered by all the positive attention you will garner.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)