单词 | garner |
释义 | garner (once / 1731 pages) vn To garner means to gather or earn. If you want to run for office without belonging to a political party, you must garner enough signatures — usually a few thousand — to get onto the ballot. The word garner comes from the Latin granarium which means "store-house," usually for grain. The current use of the word carries with it the sense of something being stored up. It’s not only that you can gather enough yes-votes to overcome the opposition, there is the sense that all the things you have garnered have some weight of their own. In its other use, garner means “earn” or "merit." Think of movie stars garnering Oscar nominations for their excellent work. WORD FAMILYgarner: garnered, garnering, garners USAGE EXAMPLES“We will work to repeal this top-down decision and replace it with one that garners local support and creates a balanced, win-win solution.” Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) “The victim should not need to garner three votes to win while the respondent needs to garner only one. That is basic inequality.” New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) He quickly moved up through Arizona’s farm system and garnered national attention as a rookie, but Micah hasn’t forgotten his roots in Gainesville. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1v assemble or get together Syn|Ant|Hypo collect, gather, pull together distribute, spread distribute or disperse widely marshal, mobilise, mobilize, summon make ready for action or use rakegather with a rake glean, harvest, reapgather, as of natural products clubgather into a club-like mass hivegather into a hive salvage, scavengecollect discarded or refused material come up, muster, muster up, rally, summongather or bring together round upseek out and bring together cull, pick, plucklook for and gather nutgather nuts snailgather snails bird-nest, birdnestgather birdnests nestgather nests oystergather oysters, dig oysters spongegather sponges, in the ocean pearlgather pearls, from oysters in the ocean clamgather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean shockcollect or gather into shocks heap up, pile up, stack uparrange into piles or stacks whelkgather whelk cutreap or harvest mushroompick or gather mushrooms berrypick or gather berries 2v store grain Hyper store find a place for and put away for storage 3v acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions Syn|Hypo|Hyper earn letter win an athletic letter acquire, get come into the possession of something concrete or abstract 4n a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed Syn|Hypo|Hyper granary crib a bin or granary for storing grains corncriba crib for storing and drying ears of corn depot, entrepot, storage, store, storehouse a depository for goods |
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