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garner | harness |

As nouns the difference between garner and harness

is that garner is a granary; a store of grain while harness is a restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps.

As verbs the difference between garner and harness

is that garner is to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary while harness is to place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain.

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 ".

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "garner")

    Anagrams

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    harness

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps.
  • (countable) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function.
  • (dated) The complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; armour in general.
  • * 1606 William Shakespeare, Macbeth , act V, scene V
    • Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
    At least we'll die with harness on our back.
  • The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.

    • Derived terms

    * harnessed antelope * harnessed moth * test harness

    Verb

    (es)
  • To place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
  • To capture, control or put to use.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= John Vidal
    • , volume=189, issue=10, page=8, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas , passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}

    See also

    * (wikipedia "harness") *