Earn vs Glean - What's the difference?

Earn is a related term of glean.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between earn and glean

is that earn is (obsolete) to grieve while glean is (obsolete) cleaning; afterbirth.

As verbs the difference between earn and glean

is that earn is (lb) to gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work or earn can be (uk|dialect|dated) to curdle, as milk or earn can be (obsolete) to long; to yearn while glean is to collect (grain, grapes, etc) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.

As nouns the difference between earn and glean

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

earn

English

Etymology 1

Old English earnian

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.

*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

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(lb) To receive payment for work.

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(lb) To receive payment for work.

(lb) To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.

(lb) To be worthy of.

Synonyms

* (gain through applied effort or work) deserve, merit, garner, win * * * (cause someone to receive payment or reward) yield, make, generate, render

Derived terms

* earner * earnings * earn one's keep

Etymology 2

Anglo-Saxon irnan to run. See rennet, and compare yearnings.

Verb

(en verb)

(UK, dialect, dated) To curdle, as milk.

Etymology 3

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To long; to yearn.

* Spenser

And ever as he rode, his heart did earn / To prove his puissance in battle brave.

(obsolete) To grieve.

Etymology 4

Noun

(en noun)

(Sir Walter Scott)

(Webster 1913)

Anagrams

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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)

Anagrams

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