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- Dictionaryharvest/ˈhɑːvɪst/
noun
- 1. the process or period of gathering in crops: "farmers work longer hours during the harvest" Similar
verb
- 1. gather (a crop) as a harvest: "after harvesting, most of the crop is stored in large buildings" Similar
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to take or collect a useful substance, for example water or a chemical element, from somewhere so that it can be used: Hydrogen and oxygen could be harvested from the frozen water reserves. We use harvested rainwater for most of our cooking. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. harvest verb (BODY PARTS) [ T ]
1. : the season for gathering in agricultural crops. the beginning of the harvest. 2. : the act or process of gathering in a crop. assisting neighbors in their harvest. 3. a. : a mature crop (as of grain or fruit) : yield. bountiful harvests. : the quantity of a natural product gathered in a single season. the salmon harvest. timber harvests. 4.
to extract (an organ or tissue) from a living or dead body, as for transplantation or research: to harvest a kidney; to harvest embryos.
As a noun, harvest means the time of year when crops are ripe and ready to be gathered. The picked crop is also called a harvest: a bumper crop is a plentiful harvest, and a poor harvest is when things didn’t grow as well as expected. As a verb, to harvest something is to gather, trap, or cull it.
The harvest is the gathering of a crop. There were about 300 million tons of grain in the fields at the start of the harvest. American English : harvest / ˈhɑrvɪst /
har·vest. (här′vĭst) n. 1. The act or process of gathering a crop. 2. a. The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season. b. The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season. c. The time or season of such gathering. 3. The result or consequence of an action: stuck with the harvest of a predecessor's decisions.
harvest. noun. /ˈhɑːvɪst/. /ˈhɑːrvɪst/. Idioms. [countable, uncountable] the time of year when the crops are gathered in on a farm, etc.; the act of cutting and gathering crops. harvest time. Farmers are extremely busy during the harvest. Extra Examples.
the extraction of an organ or tissue from a body for the purpose of transplant or scientific research: The new method could improve the harvest of stem cells from umbilical cord blood. the result or consequence of any act, process, or event: The journey yielded a harvest of wonderful memories.
HARVEST definition: 1. the time when crops are cut and collected from fields 2. the quality or amount of crops that are…. Learn more.
The outcome or consequence of any effort or series of events. To take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control. To catch, shoot, trap, etc. (fish or game), usually in an intensive, systematic way, as for commercial purposes. To gather a crop from (land, for example).
