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Garner vs Glean - What's the difference?

garner | glean |

As nouns the difference between garner and glean

is that garner is a granary; a store of grain while glean is a collection made by gleaning.

As verbs the difference between garner and glean

is that garner is to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary while glean is to collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.

As a proper noun Garner

is {{surname|lang=en}.

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 ".

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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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