Harvest vs Slice - What's the difference?
harvest | slice |
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.
* 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
(by extension) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
* Fuller
* Wordsworth
(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 To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
To be occupied bringing in a harvest
To win, achieve a gain.
That which is thin and broad.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
amount
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 28
, author=Owen Phillips
, title=Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool
, work=BBC
A piece of pizza.
* 2010 , Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
(British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
A broad, thin piece of plaster.
A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
A salver, platter, or tray.
A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
(Australia, NZ) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
To cut into slices.
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
(golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
(soccer)
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 22
, author=Sam Sheringham
, title=Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom
, work=BBC Sport
To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
In transitive terms the difference between harvest and slice
is that harvest is to win, achieve a gain while slice is to clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.harvest
English
(wikipedia harvest)Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)- This year's cotton harvest''' was great but the corn '''harvest was disastrous.
- To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.
- The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.
- the harvest of a quiet eye
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) cropVerb
(en verb)- ''Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation
- ''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 timeslice
English
Noun
(en noun)- a slice''' of bacon''; ''a '''slice''' of cheese''; ''a '''slice of bread
citation, page= , passage=Blackpool, chasing a seventh win in 17 league matches, simply could not contain Sunderland's rampant attack and had to resort to a combination of last-ditch defending, fine goalkeeping and a large slice of fortune. }}
- For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
- I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
Derived terms
* hypersliceVerb
(slic)- Slice the cheese thinly.
- The knife left sliced his arm.
citation, page= , passage=Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner. }}