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Accrete vs Glean - What's the difference?

accrete | glean |

As verbs the difference between accrete and glean

is that accrete is to grow together, combine; to fuse while glean is to collect (grain, grapes, etc) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.

As an adjective accrete

is characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.

As a noun glean is

a collection made by gleaning or glean can be (obsolete) cleaning; afterbirth.

accrete

English

Verb

(accret)
  • To grow together, combine; to fuse.
    • Astronomers believe the Earth began to accrete more than 4.6 billion billion years ago.
  • * '>citation
  • To adhere; to grow or to be added to gradually.
  • To make adhere; to add; to make larger or more, as by growing.
    • (Earle)

    Usage notes

    * (to fuse) Used with the word to .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.
  • (botany) Grown together
  • :(Gray)

    • Related terms

    * accrescence * accrescent * accretion * accretive

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    glean

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , from (etyl).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.
  • * , Ruth 2:2,
    • Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.
  • To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard).
    • to glean a field
  • To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.
  • * John Locke
    • content to glean what we can from experiments
  • * 8 December 2011 , BBC News, Iran shows film of captured US drone , available in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098562 :
    • He said Iran was "well aware of what priceless technological information" could be gleaned from the aircraft.
  • To frugally accumulate resources from low-yield contexts.
    • He gleaned a living from newspaper work for a few months, but in the summer went to a fishing village […] where […] he wrote his great historical drama, "Master Olof." (Translators Edith and Warner Oland on author .)
    Synonyms
    * (gather information) learn

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A collection made by gleaning.
  • * Dryden
    • The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

  • (obsolete) cleaning; afterbirth
    • (Holland)
    (Webster 1913)

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