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HARVEST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The season for gathering crops

Synonyms:

harvest; harvest time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

season; time of year (one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions)

Holonyms ("harvest" is a part of...):

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Derivation:

harvest (gather, as of natural products)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The gathering of a ripened crop

Synonyms:

harvest; harvest home; harvesting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

gather; gathering (the act of gathering something)

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

haying (the harvesting of hay)

Derivation:

harvest (gather, as of natural products)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The consequence of an effort or activity

Example:

a harvest of love

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

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

consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The yield from plants in a single growing season

Synonyms:

crop; harvest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

output; yield (production of a certain amount)

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

fruitage (the yield of fruit)

Derivation:

harvest (gather, as of natural products)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation

Example:

Should one harvest organs from dead people for transplants?

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Gather, as of natural products

Example:

harvest the grapes

Synonyms:

glean; harvest; reap

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

collect; garner; gather; pull together (assemble or get together)

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

cut (reap or harvest)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They harvest rye in the field

Derivation:

harvest (the season for gathering crops)

harvest (the gathering of a ripened crop)

harvest (the yield from plants in a single growing season)

harvester (farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields)

harvester (someone who helps to gather the harvest)

harvesting (the gathering of a ripened crop)

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 Context examples: 

By following Honeyguides, a species of bird, people in Africa are able to locate bees’ nests to harvest honey.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Any process that harvests blood or blood products for clinical or manufacturing purposes.

(Blood Product Collection, NCI Thesaurus)

Any process that harvests bone marrow for clinical or manufacturing purposes.

(Bone Marrow Collection, NCI Thesaurus)

Peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) are first harvested from a cancer patient and induced to express a particular tumor-associated antigen or multiple antigens.

(Peripheral Blood Lymphocyte Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) are first harvested from a cancer patient and induced to express MOv-gamma.

(MOv-gamma, NCI Thesaurus)

It was a most beautiful season; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage, but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Yet we added one more sheaf to our harvest before we left Woolwich Station.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But this did not at all suit the views of the landlord, who saw in this lucky incident a chance of reaping a fresh harvest from his spendthrift company.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) harvested directly from infiltrate of a patient's melanoma and cultured with interleukin-2 to expand the TIL cell population.

(Melanoma Tumor-Reactive Autologous Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

Dendritic cells harvested from a cancer patient may be exposed to or pulsed with the 9-mer MAGE-3 peptide (FLWGPRALV).

(MAGE-3 Peptide (9-mer), NCI Thesaurus)