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- Dictionaryglean/ɡliːn/
verb
- 1. obtain (information) from various sources, often with difficulty: "the information is gleaned from press cuttings"
- 2. gather (leftover grain) after a harvest: historical "the conditions of farm workers in the 1890s made gleaning essential"
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GLEAN definition: 1. to collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty: 2. to collect information in…. Learn more.
1. a. : to pick up after a reaper. b. : to strip of the leavings of reapers. glean a field. 2. a. : to gather (something, such as information) bit by bit. can glean secrets from his hard drive. b. : to pick over in search of relevant material. gleaning old files for information. 3.
Glean means to gather bit by bit, either literally or figuratively. You might glean leftover grain from a recently harvested field or glean information about new vocabulary words by hearing them used in context. When you glean information, you sort through ideas and take what you need.
to collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty: From what I was able to glean, the news isn't good. glean something (from someone) They're leaving on Tuesday - I managed to glean that much (from them). SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Collecting and amassing. accumulate. agglomerate. aggregation. amass. assemble.
If you glean something such as information or knowledge, you learn or collect it slowly and patiently, and perhaps indirectly. At present we're gleaning information from all sources. American English : glean / ˈglin /
Glean Definition. To collect or find out (facts, etc.) gradually or bit by bit. To examine or go through (books, etc.) so as to collect certain information. To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering. A collection made by gleaning.
glean something (from somebody/something) to obtain information, knowledge, etc., sometimes with difficulty and often from various different places. These figures have been gleaned from a number of studies.
to gather small amounts of (grain or the like) left behind after a harvest, nowadays often for charitable use. to clear (a field, orchard, etc.) of leftover produce in this way: Millet’s painting The Gleaners depicts three peasant women stooping low as they glean a field of wheat.
GLEAN meaning: to discover information slowly or with difficulty: . Learn more.
1. to gather, learn, or find out, usu. bit by bit or slowly and laboriously: to glean information. 2. to gather (grain or the like) after the reapers or regular gatherers. v.i. 3. to collect or gather anything little by little or slowly.
