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[ gleen ] / glin / SEE SYNONYMS FOR glean ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object)to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit. to gather (grain or the like) after the reapers or regular gatherers. to learn, discover, or find out, usually little by little or slowly. verb (used without object)to collect or gather anything little by little or slowly. to gather what is left by reapers. Origin of glean1350–1400; Middle English glenen<Old French glener<Late Latin glennāre ≪ Celtic SYNONYMS FOR gleanSEE SYNONYMS FOR glean ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM gleanglean·a·ble, adjectivegleaner, nounun·gleaned, adjectiveWords nearby gleanGLBTQ, GLC, Gld., gleam, gleamy, glean, gleaning, gleanings, Gleason, gleba, glebe Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for gleanBy presenting the data in a unified fashion, it makes it easier to glean insights. The Best Quantified Self Site You Haven’t Heard Of|Jamie Todd Rubin|August 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST And you might be able to glean some advance knowledge of new product launches or marketing campaigns. McDonald’s Ditches Heinz To Keep Burger King Out of Its Business|Daniel Gross|October 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST But there are still many valuable insights that modern politicians can glean from his example. Lincoln the Primitive Communicator? What He Can Teach Modern Politicians|Douglas L. Wilson|December 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST “They wanted to glean good ideas and figured their opponent the CIA was doing it, so they had to do it too,” Grady said. The Novelist Who Spied: How Dennis Wheatley Helped Defeat the Nazis|Tina Rosenberg|August 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
I also reread writers I admire, and try to glean a phrase or thought that will get me going. Inside the NYT Book Review: ‘How I Write’ Interviews Sam Tanenhaus|Noah Charney|August 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST We will glean some passages of this chapter which bear on his theory of descent. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution|Alpheus Spring Packard From the little we can glean of them, the ancient inhabitants of the village must have been a grim old race. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback|Willard Glazier We may glean the nature of the verbal message from the letter itself. The Mystery of Mary Stuart|Andrew Lang This was when I came as a young man to glean engineering experience from the building of the breakwater. Across the Plains|Robert Louis Stevenson As far as I could glean from conversation with Americans, they seem themselves to anticipate anything but success. Lands of the Slave and the Free|Henry A. Murray
British Dictionary definitions for glean
verbto gather (something) slowly and carefully in small piecesto glean information from the newspapers to gather (the useful remnants of a crop) from the field after harvesting Derived forms of gleangleanable, adjectivegleaner, nounWord Origin for gleanC14: from Old French glener, from Late Latin glennāre, probably of Celtic origin Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to gleancull, extract, gather, sift, garner, deduce, learn, reap, amass, conclude, pick, winnow, ascertain, accumulate, harvest, select |