Reap vs Reak - What's the difference?
reap | reak |
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.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between reap and reak
is that reap is (obsolete) to deprive of the beard; to shave while reak is (obsolete) a prank.As nouns the difference between reap and reak
is that reap is a bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut while reak is (obsolete) a prank or reak can be a rush.As a verb reap
is to cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.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)
