Reap vs Procure - What's the difference?
reap | procure |
To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
* Bible, Leviticus
To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works, in a good or a bad sense.
* Milton
* (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
(computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
(obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
To acquire or obtain.
* Milton
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To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
(criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.
(obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.
* Shakespeare
In obsolete terms the difference between reap and procure
is that reap is to deprive of the beard; to shave while procure is to cause to come; to bring; to attract.As verbs the difference between reap and procure
is that reap is to cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting while procure is to acquire or obtain.As a noun reap
is a bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.reap
English
Verb
- When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
- to reap a benefit from exertions
- Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing / For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
- For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap.
Gal.6.7
- Until a child process is reaped , it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* reaper * reap what one sows *Anagrams
*procure
English
Verb
(procur)- if we procure not to ourselves more woe
- Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. How these were to be procured , no one was able to imagine.
- By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.
- Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.
- The famous Briton prince and faery knight, / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there longer sojourn and abode.
- What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?
