Gleaned vs Gleamed - What's the difference?
gleaned | gleamed |
(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
(gleam)
a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.
* Longfellow
a glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something.
brightness or shininess; splendor.
* Alexander Pope
To shine; to glitter; to glisten.
To be briefly but strongly apparent.
(obsolete, falconry) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
As verbs the difference between gleaned and gleamed
is that gleaned is past tense of glean while gleamed is past tense of gleam.gleaned
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.
Etymology 2
Anagrams
* * * *gleamed
English
Verb
(head)gleam
English
Noun
(en noun)- A glimmer, and then a gleam of light.
- The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that they might still survive.
- In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen.