harvested

«harvested» in Mova's school dictionary: gathered crops such as wheat, apples or potatoes when… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (harvest, harvests, harvested, harvesting); noun (harvest, harvests)

meaning for a pupil

1) (literal) gathered crops such as wheat, apples or potatoes when they are ripe. tree →

2) (euphemism, hunting, US) killed by hunters: «deer were harvested». tree →

3) (euphemism, industry) cut down (trees) or caught (fish). tree →

4) collected: «harvested data», «harvested rainwater»; (medicine) organs or cells taken from a donor. tree →

sense in the lessons

Farming is the main and literal sense; hunters, fishers and loggers use «harvest» to make killing or cutting sound like gathering crops (official, US jargon). Used in science lessons for rain, energy and data collection.

examples

• The farmers harvested the wheat in late summer. tree →
• Over two hundred deer were harvested in the county this season. tree →
• The forest was harvested for timber. tree →
• Our class harvested the potatoes we planted in spring. tree →
• Fishermen harvested tonnes of cod. tree →
• The app harvested users' data without asking. tree →
• We harvested rainwater in a barrel for the garden. tree →
• If each tree gives 30 apples and we harvested 12 trees, we harvested 360 apples. tree →
• "If this wheat is not harvested at once," said the Farmer, "we shall lose half the crop. tree →

note

Trap: about animals it means killed, said in a softer way. About data it may mean collected without permission. In maths problems, «harvested» means collected: count the total.

In the corpora

• "Harvested" (US hunting jargon) means an animal was killed by hunters.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «harvested» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.