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garner | collate |

As a proper noun garner

is .

As a verb collate is

to examine diverse documents et cetera to discover similarities and differences.

garner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A granary; a store of grain.
  • * :
  • That'' our garners ''may be'' full, affording all manner of store: ''that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.
  • * :
  • Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner ; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
  • An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
  • To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
  • * 1835 ,
  • I walked enormous distances...garnering thoughts even from the heather.
  • * 1913 , in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.
  • * 1956 ,
  • ...its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.
  • (often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to reap.
  • He garnered a reputation as a language expert.
    Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.
    His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.
  • * 1983 ,
  • This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.
  • * 1999 ,
  • President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women...
  • (rare) to gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
  • * 1849 ,
  • For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;

    Usage notes

    The "earn, acquire, accumulate" sense should be read as a figurative extension of the original "harvest, gather" sense, sometimes with some inanimate achievement or choice metaphorically doing the "gathering", as "The new book garnered high praise''", or with an indirect object, as, "''The new book garnered the author high praise''". In this sense, the achievement, choice, or fact is actively gathering something, positive or negative, for its creator, even if that choice is inaction, as in "''Failure to try can garner you the disapproval of the industrious ".

    Anagrams

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    collate

    English

    Verb

    (collat)
  • To examine diverse documents et cetera to discover similarities and differences.
  • The young attorneys were set the task of collating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy.
  • * Coleridge
  • I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew.
  • To assemble something in a logical sequence.
  • * 1922 , , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 101
  • Detest your own age. Build a better one. And to set that on foot read incredibly dull essays upon Marlowe to your friends. For which purpose one must collate editions in the British Museum.
  • To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.
  • Collating was still necessary because they had to insert foldout sheets and index tabs into the documents.
  • (obsolete) To bestow or confer.
  • (Jeremy Taylor)
  • (Christianity) To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to .