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Definition: Harvester |
HarvesterNoun1. Someone who helps to gather the harvest. 2. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "harvester" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | A machine performing multiple forestry operations. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Removes virus-bearing fluid from fertile chicken eggs for use in manufacturing vaccines, such as influenza vaccine: Saws end off egg, using electric saw, and removes fetal membrane, using tweezers to break sac containing viral fluid. Siphons fluid into sterilized and labeled bottles for further processing. Sterilizes tweezers by dipping them into antiseptic solution after each egg has been harvested. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The combine harvester, or simply combine, is a machine that reaps and separates grain. It is based on the threshing machine and the reaper.
Early combines, some of them quite large, were drawn by mule teams and used a bull wheel to provide mechanical power. Tractor-drawn, PTO-powered combines were used for a time. Today's combines are self-propelled and use diesel engines for power.
Combines are equipped with removable heads that are designed for particular crops. The standard head, sometimes called a grain platform, is equipped with a sickle bar mower, and features a revolving reel with metal or plastic teeth to cause the cut crop to fall into the head. A cross auger then pulls the crop into the throat. The grain platform is used for many crops, including grain, legumes, and many seed crops.
Wheat heads are similar except that the reel is not equipped with teeth. Some wheat heads, called "draper" heads, use a fabric or rubber apron instead of a cross auger. Draper heads keep the crop orientation uniform, feeding grain headfirst into the throat, which allows slightly more efficient threshing.
Dummy heads feature spring-tined pickups, usually attached to a heavy rubber belt. They are used for crops that have already been cut and placed in windrows.
While a grain platform can be used for corn, a specialized corn head is ordinarily used instead. The corn head is equipped with snap rolls that strip the stalk and leaf away from the ear, so that only the ear (and husk) enter the throat. This improves efficiency dramatically since so much less material must go through the cylinder. The corn head can be recognized by the presence of points between each row.
Occasionally rowcrop heads are seen that function like a grain platform, but have points between rows like a corn head. These are used to reduce the amount of weed seed picked up when harvesting small grains.
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- Pictures of combines with corn and wheat heads
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Combine."
Synonym: HarvesterSynonym: reaper (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: limbering (food & agriculture, mechanical engineering). |
Crosswords: Harvester |
| English words defined with "harvester": combine, Cutter bar, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Cyrus McCormick ♦ Grain binder, Ground wheel ♦ McCormick. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "harvester": address harvester ♦ FARMER, DIVERSIFIED CROPS, FARMWORKER, VEGETABLE I ♦ HARVESTER OPERATOR ♦ ROOSEVELT ♦ spam bait, spamblock, SPOUT TENDER I, SUPERVISOR, FIELD-CROP FARMING. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Honey Harvester (1949) The Harvester (1936) Harvester (1995) | |
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 | Sam Simmons operates a specialized tea harvester on the Charleston Tea Plantation in SC. The tea leaves after processing will be used in American Classic Tea. Credit: USDA. |  | Nutritional immunologist Tim Kramer examines a collection of individual T-cell proliferation cultures harvested onto the filter mat of a 96-well cell harvester. The samples can be used to determine how much T-cell growth has taken place. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |
 | Rutgers University farm supervisor Richard DeStefano operates a ride-on water reel cranberry harvester at the Blueberry and Cranberry Research Center at Chatsworth, New Jersey. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |  | Mechanical sugarcane harvester developed by Allen Ramsey Wurtele, Mix, Louisiana. Mr. Wurtel spent several years with this development, and the machine is semi-successful. It is recognized that with developments and improvements pending, this machine will. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Operator of mechnaical sugarcane harvester developed by Mr. Wurtele, Mix, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Deering Works, International Harvester Co., Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ore docks, blast furnaces & steel mills, South Chicago, Ill., International Harvester Co., Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Milwaukee Works, International Harvester Co., Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Weber Works, International Harvester Co., Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Plano, International Harvester Co., Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Harvester" by Christoph Burgdorfer Commentary: "A danish harvester at work." |
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Business | The combine harvester market is still a key sector for agricultural machinery industry. (references) | |
Current demand for paddy rice harvesters exceeds the supply and crawler type head-feed rice harvester is a best selling product. (references) | ||
Demand and sale for wheat harvester, will decrease since mechanized harvesting has been popularized in major wheat producing regions. (references) | ||
Economic History | Hungary | IKR switched harvester supplier from the German Claas to the US-owned New Holland, member of the CNH group. (references) |
Ukraine | There are about 30 manufacturers of agricultural machinery in Ukraine, including two grain harvester producing plants in Kherson and Alexandra, one corn harvester producing plant in Kherson, six sugar beet harvester producing plants with the major one in Ternopil and three plants manufacturing tractors. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Harvester" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Harvester" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.86% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "harvester": address harvester ♦ combine harvester ♦ harvester thresher ♦ potatoe harvester. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "harvester": harvester-combine, harvester-festival, harvester-stacker, harvester-thresher. | |
Ending with "harvester": combine-harvester. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "harvester"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vjelës (picker), makinë korrëse (reaper, reaping-machine), korrës (cropper, reaper). (various references) | |
Arabic | حصادة آلة, حصاد (cutting, gathering, harvest, harvesting, reaper), حاصدة (reaper). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | жътварка (reaper, reaping-machine), жътвар (reaper). (various references) | |
Chinese | 收割机. (various references) | |
Czech | kombajn (combine, combine harvester), žnec (mower, reaper). (various references) | |
Danish | hoestmand (mower, reaper), høstkarl (mower, mowing machine, reaper), skovningsmaskine (feller-limber-bucker), plukkemaskine (picker, picking machine), mejer (mower, mowing machine, reaper). (various references) | |
Dutch | processor 2)feller-bunches 3)harvester (feller-limber-bucker), plukmachine (picker, picking machine), oogstwerktuig (mower, reaper), maaier (mower, mowing machine, reaper). (various references) | |
Finnish | harvesteri (feller-limber-bucker), sadonkorjuukone (picking machine), ruohonleikkuukone (mower, mowing machine, reaper), ruohonleikkuri (mower, mowing machine, reaper), poimintakone (picking machine), niittokone (mower, mowing machine), niittäjä (mower, reaper), monitoimikone (feller-limber-bucker), mekaaninen poimija (picker), leikkuumies (reaper), leikkuukone (clippers), konepoimuri (picker), elonleikkuukone. (various references) | |
French | moissonneur. (various references) | |
German | erntearbeiter (picker, reaper). (various references) | |
Greek | συλλεκτική μηχανή (picker, picking machine), μηχάνημα συγκομιδής (feller-limber-bucker), θεριστική μηχανή (reaper, reaping machine), θεριστήσ (cropper, harvestman, mower, reaper), θεριστής (mower, reaper). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקצרה (combine harvester, grasscutter, lawn mower, mower, reaper), מערמת (combine), קוצר (reaper). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kombájn (combine, combine harvester), aratógép (combine, reaper, reaping-machine), arató (reaper). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mesin potong. (various references) | |
Italian | mietitore (mower, reaper). (various references) | |
Korean | 수확기. (various references) | |
Manx | labree fouyir, buinneyder (mower, reaper), beaynee (mower, reaper). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arvesterhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | segador (mower, reaper, reaping-machine), ceifeiro (mower, reaper, reaping-machine). (various references) | |
Romanian | secerãtor (harvesting, mower, reaper, reaping), secerãtoare (cropper, mower, reaper), cosaş (grasshopper, grass-mower, haymaker, mower, reaper, scytheman). (various references) | |
Russian | уборочная машина. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žetelac (cropper, reaper). (various references) | |
Spanish | segador (mower, reaper), cosechero (reaper). (various references) | |
Swedish | skördemaskin (reaper, reaping-machine). (various references) | |
Turkish | hasatçı, harman makinesi, orakçı (mower, reaper, shearer), orak (reaping hook, sickle), biçerdöver (combine harvester, combineharvester, harvester thresher, reaper). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kombaяn (r) (combine). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | збиральна машина, жнець (cropper, reaper). (various references) | |
Welsh | cynaeafwr. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | messor, messorem, messores, messoribus, messorum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "harvester": harvesters. (additional references) | |
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"Harvester" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bavester, Harrester. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "harvester" (pronounced hÄ"rvuster) |
| 4 | -u s t er | administer, banister, bannister, barrister, canister, cannister, Forester, keister, kiester, minister, register, sinister. |
| 3 | -s t er | dumpster, duster, Easter, adjuster, alabaster, ancestor, aster, blaster, blister, blockbuster, bluster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, ester, faster, Feaster, fester, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, juster, lackluster, laster, Leister, Lister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, Minster, Mister, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, pollster, polyester, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, semester, sequester, shyster, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, tester, thruster, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, trimester, twister, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, Wester, youngster, zoster. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-r-r-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: traverse. | |
-2 letters: aethers, harvest, hearers, heaters, heavers, reavers, rehears, reheats, reshave, retears, reverts, serrate, shearer, starver, tearers, thraves. | |
-3 letters: aether, aretes, arrest, averse, averts, earths, easter, eaters, eraser, ethers, everts, haeres, haters, havers, hearer, hearse, hearts, heater, heaver, heaves, hereat, rarest, rasher, raster, raters, rather, ravers, reaver, reaves, rehear, reheat, reseat, rester, retear. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-r-r-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: harvesters, preharvest. | |
+2 letters: earthmovers, overharvest, preharvests. | |
+3 letters: overharvests. | |
+4 letters: overharvested. | |
+5 letters: interbehaviors, overbreathings, overharvesting, photoengravers. | |
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