Collect vs Gleaned - What's the difference?
collect | gleaned |
To gather together; amass.
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, title= To get; particularly, get from someone.
To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare (gather), (get).)
* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 292-3:
* John Locke
To collect payments.
To come together in a group or mass.
To collect objects as a hobby.
To infer; to conclude.
* South
To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
With payment due from the recipient.
(en noun) (sometimes capitalized)
(Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
(glean)
To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.
* , Ruth 2:2,
* Shakespeare
To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard).
To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.
* John Locke
* 8 December 2011 , BBC News, Iran shows film of captured US drone , available in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098562 :
To frugally accumulate resources from low-yield contexts.
A collection made by gleaning.
* Dryden
As verbs the difference between collect and gleaned
is that collect is to gather together; amass while gleaned is (glean).As an adjective collect
is to be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.As an adverb collect
is with payment due from the recipient.As a noun collect
is (christianity) the prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the book of common prayer.collect
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) collecten, from (etyl) .Verb
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- the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.
- which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected .
- Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
Adjective
(-)- It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
Adverb
(-)- I had to call collect .
Derived terms
* call collect * collect one's thoughts * collect one's wits * collect up * collectible * collection * collector * recollect, recollectionEtymology 2
(Wikipedia) From (etyl) .Noun
- He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.
External links
* * * 1000 English basic wordsgleaned
English
Verb
(head)glean
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl).Verb
(en verb)- Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.
- To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.
- to glean a field
- content to glean what we can from experiments
- He said Iran was "well aware of what priceless technological information" could be gleaned from the aircraft.
- 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 .)
Synonyms
* (gather information) learnNoun
(en noun)- The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.