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Meaning of HARVESTING

Pronunciation:  h'ârvusting

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  the gathering of a ripened crop
 
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 Synonyms: harvest, harvest home
 
 See Also: gather, gathering, haying

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Har"vest*ing\,
a. & n., from {Harvest}, v. t.
{Harvesting ant} (Zo["o]l.), any species of ant which gathers
   and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known.
Note: The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are
      {Aphenogaster structor} and {A. barbara}; that of
      Texas, called {agricultural ant}, is {Pogonomyrmex
      barbatus} or {Myrmica molifaciens}; that of Florida is
      {P. crudelis}. See {Agricultural ant}, under
      {Agricultural}.
 
Dream Dictionary
 
 Definition: Dreaming that you are harvesting crops indicates that you still have some way to go before fully developing your career and goals.
 
Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: The collecting of cells, organisms, or the growth medium upon which an experimental population (of cells or microorganisms) had grown, so that the collection can be analyzed or so biochemicals can be extracted from it.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: architecture, assembly, building, casting, composition, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, crop, cropping, cultivation, cutting, devising, elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, gathering, gleaning, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvest, ingathering, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, molding, nutting, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, raising, reaping, refining, shaping, smelting, workmanship
 

 

 

 

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