glean

[ gleen ]

/ glin /

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verb (used with object)

to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.

to gather (grain or the like) after the reapers or regular gatherers.

to learn, discover, or find out, usually little by little or slowly.

verb (used without object)

to collect or gather anything little by little or slowly.

to gather what is left by reapers.

Origin of glean

1350–1400; Middle English glenen < Old French glener < Late Latin glennāre ≪ Celtic

SYNONYMS FOR glean

3 garner, deduce, infer.

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OTHER WORDS FROM glean

glean·a·ble, adjective glean·er, noun un·gleaned, adjective

Words nearby glean

glc, gld, gld., gleam, gleamy, glean, gleaning, gleanings, gleason, gleba, glebe

Example sentences from the Web for gleaned

The sensible answer is no, but di Giovannni gleaned much from those three years.

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But apparently there are scoops of great magnitude to be gleaned from these repetitive pictures.

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Apparently Styles even taught the family a few tricks in the kitchen, gleaned from his former life working in a bakery.

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And Golden Dawn is claiming that the evidence against it was gleaned from illegal wiretaps.

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But the most important lesson to be gleaned from this episode is that Rand Paul defended Hunter to the end.

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I do not think the information he gleaned was of much importance.

In the Russian Ranks |John Morse
"It's all we do do," said the lady of the embonpoint, whose first name by now he had gleaned as Winifred.

What Will People Say? |Rupert Hughes
From these official figures may be gleaned something of the extraordinary growth of libraries, both numerically and in size.

Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913 |Various
And lo, he hath left me as men leave a field reaped and gleaned, like a church where none cometh to pray, like a city desolate.'

Letters to Dead Authors |Andrew Lang
The less he has gleaned from human experience the more he may be expected to duplicate its signal errors.

Conservation Through Engineering |Franklin K. Lane

British Dictionary definitions for gleaned

glean

/ (ɡliːn) /

verb

to gather (something) slowly and carefully in small pieces to glean information from the newspapers

to gather (the useful remnants of a crop) from the field after harvesting

Derived forms of glean

gleanable, adjective gleaner, noun

Word Origin for glean

C14: from Old French glener, from Late Latin glennāre, probably of Celtic origin

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BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

glean

verb (used with object)

verb (used without object)

Origin of glean

SYNONYMS FOR glean

OTHER WORDS FROM glean

Words nearby glean

Words related to gleaned

Example sentences from the Web for gleaned

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