HARVEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harvest mean? 

• HARVEST (noun)
  The noun HARVEST has 4 senses:

1. the yield from plants in a single growing season

2. the consequence of an effort or activity

3. the gathering of a ripened crop

4. the season for gathering crops

  Familiarity information: HARVEST used as a noun is uncommon.

• HARVEST (verb)
  The verb HARVEST has 2 senses:

1. gather, as of natural products

2. remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation

  Familiarity information: HARVEST used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARVEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The yield from plants in a single growing season

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

crop; harvest

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The consequence of an effort or activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Context example:

a harvest of love

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 3

Meaning:

The gathering of a ripened crop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

harvest; harvest home; harvesting

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 4

Meaning:

The season for gathering crops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

harvest; harvest time

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)

• HARVEST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they harvest    ... he / she / it harvests   
Past simple: harvested   
Past participle: harvested   
-ing form: harvesting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gather, as of natural products

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

glean; harvest; reap

Context example:

harvest the grapes

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Should one harvest organs from dead people for transplants?

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

 Context examples 

Most of these water harvesting sites are along the coast but a few are inland—and so are the ahu.

(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)

One example is the burning of straw residues during harvest, which is responsible for carbon dioxide emissions and respiratory problems due to inhalation of smoke and soot.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

MILs are harvested from autologous bone marrow from multiple myeloma patients and, in vitro, are exposed to and activated by anti-CD3/anti-CD28 monoclonal antibodies covalently attached to super-paramagnetic microbeads.

(Activated Marrow Infiltrating Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

PBLs are harvested from a patient and pulsed with a retroviral vector that encodes the T-cell receptor gene specific for a mutated form of p53.

(Anti-p53 T-Cell Receptor-Transduced Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

Multipotent self-renewing adherent non-hematopoietic stromal cells harvested from a patient's bone marrow and grown in vitro.

(autologous expanded mesenchymal stem cells OTI-010, NCI Thesaurus)

The new type of rice, successfully harvested by a group of scientists in the seaside city of Qingdao, eastern China, was revealed a year ago.

(Saltwater Rice Successfully Harvested by Chinese Scientists, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

You would find it difficult, I dare say, just now, in the middle of a very late hay harvest, to hire a horse and cart?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The photo-excited states – when photons of light are absorbed by the semiconducting material – need to move so that they can be “harvested” before they lose their energy.

(Plastic crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport, Universities of Cambridge)

Because humans have never commercially harvested penguins, Polito and colleagues expected that changes in penguins' diets and populations would mirror shifts in krill availability.

(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)

For years, timber harvesting has been the panda's biggest threat.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)