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gleaner

/gleen/US // glin //UK // (ɡliːn) //

拾穗者,拾荒者,拾遗者,拾金不昧者

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
    • : to gather after the reapers or regular gatherers.
    • : to learn, discover, or find out, usually little by little or slowly.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to collect or gather anything little by little or slowly.
    • : to gather what is left by reapers.

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Examples

  • You have gleaned from the news that the man in the video has left behind unpaid rent, traffic fines, credit card bills.

  • Just what happened before Carson’s departure must be largely gleaned from the investigators’ report.

  • The estimate was made using data gleaned from a network that monitors influenza-like illnesses in United States.

  • The insights gleaned from search trends and queries, local search analytics, and on-site activity will help inform the decisions your business must make going forward.

  • The data gleaned will move through the internet to a secure computer.

  • Even after being diagnosed with tennis elbow, she continued working as a gleaner at a garlic farm.

  • The reaper must leave something for the gleaner; even the ox cannot be muzzled as he treadeth out the corn.

  • I have seen at least one specimen of this lady's poetry in one of the volumes of Mr. Pratt's Gleaner.

  • Really, Leila, you are certainly a successful information gleaner, Nella regarded her room-mate with an amused smile.

  • Hyacinth left the Rectory that night with three well-read numbers of the Gleaner in his pocket.

  • But the entrance is without rock scenery, and the student of its geology must be a patient gleaner along its shores.

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