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Harvest vs Picking - What's the difference?

harvest | picking |

As nouns the difference between harvest and picking

is that harvest is the third season of the year; autumn; fall while picking is a gathering to pick fruit.

As verbs the difference between harvest and picking

is that harvest is to bring in a harvest; reap; glean while picking is .

harvest

English

(wikipedia harvest)

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
  • The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
  • The process of harvesting, gathering the ripened crop.
  • The yield of harvesting, i.e. the gathered crops or fruits.
    • This year's cotton harvest''' was great but the corn '''harvest was disastrous.
  • * 1911 , (Jack London), The Whale Tooth
  • *:The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest' of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the ' harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.
  • (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
  • * Fuller
    • The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.
  • * Wordsworth
    • the harvest of a quiet eye
  • (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=20 citation , passage=Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.}}

    Synonyms

    * (season of the year) autumn, fall * (horti- or agricultural yield) crop

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
  • To be occupied bringing in a harvest
    • ''Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation
  • To win, achieve a gain.
    • ''The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21

    Derived terms

    * harvestable * harvestability * harvester * harvest bug * harvest fish * harvest fly * harvest home * harvest louse * harvestman * harvest mite * harvest moon * harvest mouse * harvest queen * harvest spider * harvest time

    picking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gathering to pick fruit.
    • We went to a strawberry picking last June.
  • (usually, pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
  • * 1899 , , Via Crucis , ch. 9:
    • Gilbert wandered through . . .the haunts of ravenous dogs and homeless cats that kept themselves alive on the choice pickings of the city's garbage.
  • (usually, pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
  • * 1919 , , The Secret of the Tower , ch. 11:
    • He liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself.

    Synonyms

    * (items remaining after others have selected the best) leftovers

    Derived terms

    * easy pickings * in the picking * nit-picking * slim pickings