glean

glean

1. noukkia, haalia rippeet, kerätä (sadonkorjuussa korjaamatta jääneitä jyviä yms.)

2. haalia kokoon (elantonsa)

3. haalia tietoja; oppia (vaivalloisesti) vähän kerrallaan

Esimerkkejä:

(intransitiivinen) Before the apparition of modern agriculture, women often had to glean.

(transitiivinen) to glean a field, to glean the vineyards

He gleaned a living from freelance journalism.

Synonyymisanakirja

glean

poimia, korjata, kerätä, niittää, haalia, koota, nivoa yhteen, yhdistää.

Rimmaavat sanat

glean rimmaa näiden kanssa:

oikeaan, takaoikeaan, etuoikeaan, ennen vanhaan, harhaan, turhaan, kaikkiaan, kerta kaikkiaan, kaiken kaikkiaan, omiaan...

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Englannin sanakirja

glean englanniksi

1. To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) leave behind|left behind after the main harvest or gathering.

2. (RQ:Authorized Versio), Ruth 2:2,

Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.

3. Shakespeare

To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.

4. To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard).

to glean a field

5. To gather information in small amounts, with imply implied difficulty, bit by bit.

6. John Locke

content to glean what we can from (..) experiments

7. 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.

8. 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 w:August Strindberg|August Strindberg.)

9. A collection made by gleaning.

10. Dryden

The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.

11. puhekieltä cleaning; afterbirth

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