Glean

Definition: Glean

Glean

Verb

1. Gather, as of as crops.

Date "glean" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Bible	Glean The corners of fields were not to be reaped, and the sheaf accidentally left behind was not to be fetched away, according to the law of Moses (Lev. 19:9; 23:22; Deut. 24:21). They were to be left for the poor to glean. Similar laws were given regarding vineyards and oliveyards. (Comp. Ruth 2:2.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Glean

Synonyms: harvest (v), reap (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Acquisition	Verb: acquire, get, gain, win, earn, obtain, procure, gather; collect; (assemble); pick, pickup; glean.
Choice	Select; pick and choose; pick out, single out; cull, glean, winnow; sift the chaff from the wheat, separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; pick up, pitch upon; pick one's way; indulge one;s fancy.
Learning	Verb: learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Glean

English words defined with "glean": Gleaned, Gleaning. (references)

Etymologies containing "glean": Racemation. (references)

"Glean" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 73.97% of the time. "Glean" is used about 73 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	73.97%	54	46,184
Lexical Verb (base form)	26.03%	19	80,337
Total	100.00%	73	N/A

Expressions using "glean": glean information ♦ glean knowledge ♦ glean learning ♦ glean smth. from somewhere. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "glean"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		grumbulloj pak nga pak, mbledh kallëzat. (various references)

Arabic		‏جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gather, gathering, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rake, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), ‏إكتشف (be discovered, bring to light, come to light, detect, dig out, discover, figure out, find, find out, get wind of, hit, learn, nose, rout, rummage, search, spot, strike, uncover, unearth), ‏إلتقط (contract, lock onto, pick, pick up, pick up smb.). (various references)

Bulgarian		баберкувам. (various references)

Chinese		搜集 (Gleaned, Gleaning). (various references)

Czech		zářit (beam, blaze, eradiate, flash, fulgurate, glare, lighten, radiate, shine, sparkle), shromaždovat, sbírat (colect, collect, gather, pick, save), pabìrkovat. (various references)

Farsi		خوشه چینی کردن , اینسوانسوجمع کردن . (various references)

Finnish		poimia (extract, gather, pick pick out, strobe). (various references)

French		glaner, découvrir. (various references)

German		nachlesen (read up), lesen (get, harvest, lecture, peruse, pick, pick-up, read, read back, reading, reads, see, to read, to read (read, to sense), herausbekommen (figure out, find out, get back, get out, oust, pick up, sound out, to get out, work out), erkunden (ascertain, establish, explore, find out, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, scout, scouting), ausfindig machen (discover, find, hunt off, hunt up, locate, scent out, search out, seek out, to find out, trace, track down, unearth). (various references)

Greek		σταχυολογώ, περισυλλέγω (collect, gather, pick up). (various references)

Hebrew		ללקט (collect, compile, cull, gather, pick). (various references)

Hungarian		gyûjtöget, tallóz (to glean), szed (compose, to disjoint, to drug, to glean, to pick, to pull), böngész, összeszedeget. (various references)

Indonesian		memungut (collect, harvest, pick up, quote). (various references)

Italian		spigolare, racimolare (rustle up, scrape up). (various references)

Manx		jeeasseyder. (various references)

Pig Latin		eanglay

Portuguese		reverberar (glimmering, glitter, reflect, reverberate), respigar. (various references)

Romanian		strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), spicui (cull), culege (collect, compose, crop, cull, gather, mow, pick, pick up, pluck, reap, set up, take up), alege (appear, become, choose, churn, cull, decide, distinguish, elect, extract, Peel, pick, pick on, pick out, refuse, reject, remain, result, return, screen, select, separate, shell, sift, single out, sort, sunder, take one's choice, winnow), aduna (abstract, accumulate, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, collect, concentrate, congregate, crowd, deduce, engross, foot-up an account, forage, garner, gather, harvest, heap, huddle up, ingather, jam, lay in, lump, muster, pack, pick up, pile, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total, troop). (various references)

Russian		тщательно подбирать, подбирать колосья. (various references)

Scottish		tionail (assemble, come together, gather), dìoghluim. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		skupljati (collect, gather, mass), pabirčiti. (various references)

Spanish		espigar (coming into ear, ear emergence, heading, pin, shoot up). (various references)

Swedish		samla (assemble, collect, gather, gathers, get together, hive, muster, pick up, rally, store up, whip up), plocka ihop. (various references)

Thai		เก็บรวงข้าวที่ร่วงหล่น, รวบรวมข้อมูล, รวบรวม (garner, gather up). (various references)

Turkish		toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), hasat sonrası kalan başakları toplamak, derlemek (collect, compile, gather together, patch up), bağbozumu sonrası üzüm toplamak. (various references)

Ukranian		старанно підбирати, збирати колоски. (various references)

Welsh		lloffa. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	1. rig. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	glennare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Ruth Chapter 2, Verse 16
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai bastazonteV bastaxate auth kai ge paraballonteV parabaleite auth ek twn bebounismenwn kai afete kai sullexei kai ouk epitimhsete auth
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et de vestris quoque manipulis proicite de industria et remanere permittite ut absque rubore colligat et colligentem nemo corripiat
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Defende ye hir not, and of youre forsothe hoondfuls throwith o purpose, and suffre ye to abide stil, that with out shame she gedre; and gedrynge no man vndirnymme.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And let some heads of grain be pulled out of what has been corded up, and dropped for her to take, and let no sharp word be said to her.
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Language	Ruth Chapter 2, Verse 16
Albanian	përveç kësaj lini që të bien për të kallinj nga dorëza dhe mos i merrni, me qëllim që t'i mbledhë ajo, dhe mos i bërtisni".
Cebuano	Ug bugnota usab ninyo pagtuyo alang kaniya ang pila ka book gikan sa mga binangan, ug biyai ug pahagdawa siya, ug ayaw siya pagbadlonga.
Chinese	並要從捆裡抽出些來、留在地下任他拾取、不可叱嚇他。
Croatian	Nego navlaš ispuštajte klasove iz svojih rukoveti i ostavljajte joj neka k�"upi i nemojte je koriti!"
Danish	I kan også trække nogle Aks ud af Knipperne til hende og lade dem ligge, så hun kan sanke dem op, og I må ikke skænde på hende!"
Dutch	Ja, laat ook allengskens van de handvollen voor haar wat vallen, en laat het liggen, dat zij het opleze, en bestraft haar niet.
Finnish	Voittepa vetää sitomistakin joitakin tähkiä ja jättää ne hänen poimittavikseen; ja te ette saa nuhdella häntä."
French	et même vous ôterez pour elle des gerbes quelques épis, que vous la laisserez glaner, sans lui faire de reproches.
German	Auch von den Haufen laßt übrigbleiben und laßt liegen, daß sie es auflese, und niemand schelte sie darum.
Haitian Creole	Okontrè, rache kèk tèt nan pakèt mare yo, lage yo atè pou l' ka ranmase. Pa di l' anyen, tande!
Hungarian	Sõt húzogassatok ki néki a kévékbõl is, és hagyogassatok el, hogy szedje fel, és meg ne dorgáljátok õt.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	melainkan terkadang-kadang cecerkanlah segenggam-segenggam, dan biarkanlah dia, supaya ia itu dipungut olehnya, dan jangan kamu gusar akan dia.
Italian	anzi lasciate cadere apposta per lei spighe dai mannelli; abbandonatele, perché essa le raccolga, e non sgridatela».
Maori	Whakangahorotia ano etahi kapunga mana, whakarerea atu kia kohia e ia, kaua hoki e riria.
Norwegian	I skal endog trekke aks ut av kornbåndene til henne og la dem ligge så hun kan sanke dem op, og I skal ikke skjenne på henne.
Portuguese	Também, tirai dos molhos algumas espigas e deixai-as ficar, para que as colha, e não a repreendais.
Rumanian	wi chiar voi sq -i scoateyi din snopi ckteva spice; s`o lqsayi sq culeagq spice, wi sq n`o knfruntayi.``
Russian	�"Б Й ПФ УОП� ПЧ ПФЛЙ�"ЩЧБКФЕ ЕК Й ПУФБЧМСКФЕ, � ХУФШ ПОБ � П�"�'ЙТБЕФ, Й ОЕ �'ТБОЙФЕ ЕЕ.
Spanish	Más bien, sacad para ella de los manojos y dejad que las recoja, y no la reprendáis.
Swedish	Ja, I mån till och med draga ut strån ur knipporna åt henne och låta dem ligga, så att hon får plocka upp dem, och ingen må banna henne därför."
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "glean": gleanable, gleaned, gleaner, gleaners, gleaning, gleanings, gleans. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Glean" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blean, flean, Gaean, galan, galeae, galen, gallean, Gallegan, geena, gelan, gelang, Gelau, Geleen, gelen, gieen, Gilan, gilian, gillean, Gilsenan, Gilzean, glae, glain, glan, glane, Glanz, glea, gleaf, gleap, gleat, Glehn, Gleik, glein, Glenad, Glenann, Glenapp, Glenarn, gleo, glern, Glesni, glien, gloak, gloan, gloin, glycan, Goeran, golowan, gueen, gulan, Gulayman, gulunay. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "glean" (pronounced glē"n)
3	-l ē" n	baleen, clean, colleen, lean, lien, Moline, propylene, saline, spleen, trampoline, unclean.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: angel, angle.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-n"
	-1 letter: egal, elan, gaen, gale, gane, glen, lane, lang, lean.
	-2 letters: age, ale, ane, eng, gae, gal, gan, gel, gen, lag, lea, leg, nae, nag.
	-3 letters: ae, ag, al, an, el, en, la, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-n"
	+1 letter: angels, angled, angler, angles, anlage, bangle, dangle, flange, galena, gelant, genial, glance, gleans, jangle, lagend, lagune, langue, legman, linage, mangel, mangle, regnal, tangle, wangle.
	+2 letters: agelong, aligned, aligner, allonge, aneling, angeled, angelic, angelus, angerly, anglers, anglice, anlagen, anlages, atingle, bangles, clanged, clanger, congeal, dangled, dangler, dangles, dealing, eanling, elating, elegant, engrail, enlarge, euglena, evangel, fenagle, finagle, flagmen, flanged, flanger, flanges, galenas, galenic, gallein, galleon, gamelan, gangrel, gantlet, gelants, gelatin, gellant, geminal, general, genital, gladden, glanced, glancer, glances, glandes, gleaned, gleaner, gleeman, gnarled, granule, grapnel, gunwale, halogen, healing, jangled, jangler, jangles, lagends, lagunes, langley, langrel, langues, languet, lasagne, leading, leafing, leaking, leaning, leaping, leasing, leaving, linages, lineage, linguae, linkage, mangels, mangled, mangler, mangles, melange, nargile, pealing, realign, reginal, sealing, slanged, spangle, tangelo, tangled, tangler, tangles, twangle, unagile, ungulae, vealing, wangled, wangler, wangles, wrangle, yealing.
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