Glean vs Assemble - What's the difference?
glean | assemble |
To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.
* , Ruth 2:2,
* Shakespeare
To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard).
To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.
* John Locke
* 8 December 2011 , BBC News, Iran shows film of captured US drone , available in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098562 :
To frugally accumulate resources from low-yield contexts.
A collection made by gleaning.
* Dryden
To put together.
(ambitransitive) To gather as a group.
* Milton
* Bible, 1 Kings viii. 2
(computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code
As verbs the difference between glean and assemble
is that glean is to collect (grain, grapes, etc) left behind after the main harvest or gathering while assemble is .As a noun glean
is a collection made by gleaning or glean can be (obsolete) cleaning; afterbirth.glean
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl).Verb
(en verb)- Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.
- To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.
- to glean a field
- content to glean what we can from experiments
- He said Iran was "well aware of what priceless technological information" could be gleaned from the aircraft.
- 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) learnNoun
(en noun)- The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.
Etymology 2
Anagrams
* * * *assemble
English
Verb
(assembl)- He assembled the model ship.
- The parents assembled in the school hall.
- Thither he assembled all his train.
- All the men of Israel assembled themselves.