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# glean

«glean» in Mova's school dictionary: **To collect information bit by bit, often with effort: «I…** — 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 (glean, gleans, gleaned, gleaning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To collect information bit by bit, often with effort: «I gleaned a few facts from the leaflet.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glean/#m1)

2) (old farming, Bible) To gather the grain left in a field after the harvesters have finished; in the Bible, Ruth gleaned in Boaz's field, and farmers were told to leave the edges for the poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glean/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school pupils glean facts from texts, charts and sources in history or science. In religion lessons the law of gleaning shows care for the poor and foreigners. Phrases: «glean information from», «glean facts», «glean in the fields».

### examples

- We gleaned some facts about owls from the book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glean/#x1)
- Ruth gleaned barley in the field of Boaz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glean/#x2)
- The detective gleaned clues from the muddy footprints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glean/#x3)
- Farmers left grain at the edges so the poor could glean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glean/#x4)
- What can you glean from this graph? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glean/#x5)
- I couldn't glean much from his short answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glean/#x6)
- In a second volume, published in the following year, he added other stories gleaned from various minor manuscript collections of great rarity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glean/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: gleaned. Usually with «from». Fairly formal word in the information sense. A person who gleans is a gleaner.

### In the corpora

- [Go not to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/RUT.34/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glean» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glean/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.