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# harvest

«harvest» in Mova's school dictionary: **to gather crops like corn, apples or wheat when they are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) To harvest is to gather crops like corn, apples or wheat when they are ripe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harvest/#m1)

2) The harvest is the time when crops are gathered, at the end of summer or in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harvest/#m2)

3) A harvest is the amount of crops gathered: «a good harvest». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harvest/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a gain: the amount of crop gathered, often per day or per acre; with «each day» or «per acre» it is a rate (multiply); in many schools there is a harvest festival; phrases: «harvest time», «harvest festival», «a good harvest», «harvest moon»

### examples

- They harvest 28 sacks of oranges each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harvest/#x1)
- How many sacks will they have after 5 days? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harvest/#x2)
- The farmer harvested 400 potatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harvest/#x3)
- Each acre gives a harvest of 30 bushels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harvest/#x4)
- Farmers harvest wheat at the end of summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harvest/#x5)
- Rain ruined the harvest this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harvest/#x6)
- We brought food to the harvest festival. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harvest/#x7)
- Bees harvest nectar from flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harvest/#x8)
- Good harvests, or bad, the farmer was always poor, the money-lender rich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harvest/#x9)

### note

An action that adds; with «each day» or «per acre» it is a rate (multiply). Trap: «sacks of ripe and unripe oranges» may need only one kind.

### In the corpora

- ["Harvested" (US hunting jargon) means an animal was killed by hunters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/11/)
- [In Norfolk, a bad harvest means one small present each for Maisie-Jo's family this Christmas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/28/)
- [Some families' money depends on things nobody controls, like the weather at harvest; a bad year is not anybody's fault.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/40/)
- [Real people of those centuries lived through colder winters, failed harvests and hurricanes that sank many Spanish treasure ships.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate/8/)
- [In EU5 rulers make choices with clear results, but real history was shaped also by weather, disease, harvests and chance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/40-the-game-map-and-the-real-map-what-eu5-simplifies/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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