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Glean vs Salvage - What's the difference?

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Glean is a related term of salvage.


As verbs the difference between glean and salvage

is that glean is to collect (grain, grapes, etc) left behind after the main harvest or gathering while salvage is of property, people or situations at risk, to rescue.

As nouns the difference between glean and salvage

is that glean is a collection made by gleaning or glean can be (obsolete) cleaning; afterbirth while salvage is the rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation or salvage can be .

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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    salvage

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) salver, from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation
  • the ship, crew or cargo so rescued
  • the compensation paid to the rescuers
  • the similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued
  • anything that has been put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted
  • damaged
  • * salvage cars auction.
  • Verb

    (salvag)
  • Of property, people or situations at risk, to rescue
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=September 13 , author=Sam Lyon , title=Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Robin van Persie looked to have secured the points for the Gunners with a fine goal from Theo Walcott's through ball. But Perisic dipped a sublime 20-yard shot home to salvage a draw.}}
  • Of discarded goods, to put to use
  • To make new or restore for the use of being saved
  • Derived terms

    * salvageability * salvageable * salvager

    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anagrams

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