harvesting
收获,收割,采伐,采摘
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Definitions
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- : Also har·vest·ing. the gathering of crops.
- : the season when ripened crops are gathered.
- : a crop or yield of one growing season.See Synonym Study at crop.
- : a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored: a harvest of wheat.
- : the result or consequence of any act, process, or event: The journey yielded a harvest of wonderful memories.
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- : to gather; reap.
- : to gather the crop from: to harvest the fields.
- : to gain, win, or use: She has finally harvested the rewards of her dedication.
- : to catch, take, or remove, especially for food: Fishermen harvested hundreds of salmon from the river.
- : to collect for future use: to harvest solar energy; spammers who harvest email addresses.
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Examples
In 2009, a Pakistani Christian woman got into a religious argument with some Muslim women with whom she was harvesting berries.
The firms will each offer $20,000 in coverage, enough for two harvesting rounds per employee.
Harvesting is continual and despite the cold local winters at headquarters, the food stays warm in the indoor fields.
Fisheries, already stressed by pollution and over-harvesting, will now confront warming and acidification.
Despite several potential-bride-harvesting trips to Japan, Nagasawa never cultivated a romance or married.
The greatest pains are taken in securing the crop and harvesting and handling the plants without injuring the leaves.
After harvesting, the plants cure rapidly and on account of their small size rarely sweat.
The plants should be kept clean of them and especially at the time of harvesting.
There, within easy reach of the rubber trees, they set up their camp and the actual work of harvesting the rubber crop begins.
In the intervals of planting and harvesting they were busy with the toils of adjusting the laws of a universe.