单词 | harvesting |
释义 | harvestingn. a. The reaping and housing of grain, etc.; also transferred, the gathering up of resources. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] inning?1407 harvest1526 ingathering1535 shaking1623 harvesting1719 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 138 The End of all my Harvesting. 1841 R. W. Emerson Prudence in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 229 In the harvesting of fruits in the cellar. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. xiv. 78 In more remote regions..the thrifty soldier thought that there might be..good harvesting for his sword. b. attributive. ΚΠ 1836 U.S. Pat. 28 June Harvesting machine. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1069/1 Harvesting-machine. 1881 Times 18 May 11/4 Employment on English harvesting work. 1892 Times 20 Jan. 10/5 The Hon. Walter Abbott Wood, the inventor, and founder of the manufactory, of the harvesting machines..died..on the 15th inst...aged 76. Draft additions March 2021 a. The gathering of wild-growing plants, fruit, etc.In quot. 1832, with reference to the collecting of seeds, nuts, etc., by animals such as squirrels, hedgehogs, and mice. ΚΠ 1832 Guide to Knowl. No. 11. 82/2 The harvesting of these gentle beings [sc. certain animals] teach us, therefore, that perfect obedience, so far as they are concerned, is productive of perfect happiness. 1881 Canad. Naturalist 9 141 The woodland Indian..joins in the harvesting of wild rice in the creeks and swamps of the lake margin. 1912 Geogr. Jrnl. 40 509 Certain elaborate dancing festivals, the most important of which is connected with the harvesting of the fruit of the giant cactus (Cereus giganteus), and takes place shortly after midsummer. 1969 N.Y. Times 8 Dec. 45/2 The art of ‘wildcrafting’—the harvesting of wild buds, roots, leaves and bark that is still practiced throughout western North Carolina. 2013 Clean Slate Autumn 4/1 The harvesting of dozens of elephant garlic bulbs has taken centre stage in our focus for the week. b. The killing or capturing of wild animals for food or sport, or in order to reduce population size; the obtaining of products, such as fur or horns, from wild animals.Often intended or interpreted as euphemistic. ΚΠ 1923 Sunday Democrat (Albany, Oregon) 7 Jan. 4/1 Some states require that conservation of wild life be studied in the public schools... The harvesting of game is not sport. 1938 Wildlife Rev. July 32 The harvesting of game and fur as an economic factor was of decisive importance in earlier times. 1990 Sci. Amer. June 14/2 Another provision discourages finning, the harvesting of shark fins alone, by limiting the weight of fins to 7 percent of that of all the carcasses. 2014 E. J. Mulawka Cockatoos vi. 50 The harvesting of wild nestlings not only reduces expected population stability and/or population number increase, but has assuredly reduced the numbers in the wild. c. The removal of living cells, tissues, organs, or embryos from an animal or human, for transplantation or experiment. Also: the collection of cells from in vivo or in vitro culture.Sometimes intended or interpreted as euphemistic. ΚΠ 1955 J. H. Hanks in Introd. Cell & Tissue Culture (Tissue Culture Course, Cooperstown, N.Y.) vii. 22 The harvesting of cells from glass surfaces by scraping damages a certain proportion of them and results in clumped suspensions. 1991 Soldier of Fortune Dec. 4/2 The executee may opt to donate his remains ‘for science or harvesting of transplantable organs’. 1998 New Jersey Monthly Jan. 76/1 There is no pain involved in the collection or harvesting of the stem cells. 2013 New Yorker 6 May 47/1 A constellation of detention camps in Albania, where some prisoners were subjected to abuse, including torture, murder, and organ harvesting. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). harvestingadj. That reaps or gathers in and stores up grain, etc. harvesting ant, a kind of ant which gathers and stores up the seeds of grasses; harvesting mouse = harvest mouse n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > unspecified types musk-ant1671 velvet ant1748 soldier1781 raffle ant1793 Amazon-ant1824 green tree ant1845 brown ant1868 harvesting ant1873 Amazon1880 crazy ant1885 crazy ant1905 1873 J. T. Moggridge Ants & Spiders i. 52 These harvesting ants will be found all round the shores of the Mediterranean. 1882 G. J. Romanes Animal Intelligence iii. 102 The harvesting or agricultural ants of Texas. 1882 G. J. Romanes Animal Intelligence xii. 365 Of the harvesting mouse Gilbert White says:—One of their nests I procured this autumn. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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