harvest
part of speech
verb (harvest, harvests, harvested, harvesting); noun (a harvest, harvests)
meaning for a pupil
1) To harvest is to gather crops like corn, apples or wheat when they are ripe. tree →
2) The harvest is the time when crops are gathered, at the end of summer or in autumn. tree →
3) A harvest is the amount of crops gathered: «a good harvest». tree →
sense in the lessons
a gain: the amount of crop gathered, often per day or per acre; with «each day» or «per acre» it is a rate (multiply); in many schools there is a harvest festival; phrases: «harvest time», «harvest festival», «a good harvest», «harvest moon»
examples
- They harvest 28 sacks of oranges each day. tree →
- How many sacks will they have after 5 days? tree →
- The farmer harvested 400 potatoes. tree →
- Each acre gives a harvest of 30 bushels. tree →
- Farmers harvest wheat at the end of summer. tree →
- Rain ruined the harvest this year. tree →
- We brought food to the harvest festival. tree →
- Bees harvest nectar from flowers. tree →
- Good harvests, or bad, the farmer was always poor, the money-lender rich. tree →
note
An action that adds; with «each day» or «per acre» it is a rate (multiply). Trap: «sacks of ripe and unripe oranges» may need only one kind.
In the corpora
- "Harvested" (US hunting jargon) means an animal was killed by hunters.
- In Norfolk, a bad harvest means one small present each for Maisie-Jo's family this Christmas.
- Some families' money depends on things nobody controls, like the weather at harvest; a bad year is not anybody's fault.
- Real people of those centuries lived through colder winters, failed harvests and hurricanes that sank many Spanish treasure ships.
- In EU5 rulers make choices with clear results, but real history was shaped also by weather, disease, harvests and chance.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «harvest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.