1The process or period of gathering in crops.

1. 1.1 The season's yield or crop.
   a poor harvest

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   • The chief said his subjects who were renowned farmers in the whole district had a poor harvest for the past two years because of inadequate fertiliser supplies.
   • But she said she was expecting a good harvest from her maize crop some of which she hoped to sell and hopefully go to college.
   • The government estimates the new harvest will yield about 600000 tons of staple grains this year.
   • Already signs are that there might be a bumper harvest this season but all this will be in vain if measures are not taken to prevent crops from going to waste.
   • The South has run out of room for its herds again, becoming increasingly dependent upon the pasta and bread products provided by grain harvests.
   • If those working on it can work together, the seeds sown to date can yield a bountiful harvest.
   • Weeks of hot weather had produced a good harvest, but many watermills were becalmed by drought, so flour remained scarce.
   • Exports have been climbing, not least to Britain, and at the same time recent harvests have failed to produce the anticipated quantities.
   • That's about four acres under cultivation - enough to produce a total harvest last year of about 10,000 bundles.
   • Mr Kasukumya said he was, however, happy that people in his area continued to record bumper harvests in maize production.
   • Australian, American, and Chilean winemakers work in steady, hot climates that produce regular harvests and consistent wines.
   • The crisis has been warded off, WV believes, once farmers produce successful harvests two years in a row.
   • For a farmer with fifty acres, poor harvests were an advantage, since they meant higher grain prices.
   • This followed a shortage caused by a poor winter harvest and alleged wheat market manipulation resulted in excessive exports of grain.
   • The next fortnight will be crucial because prolonged rains are needed immediately to water crops and ensure that a harvest is produced in October.
   • The Cultivation Ceremony is also performed to help keep the different grains free from disease, producing a bountiful harvest.
   • The restaurant, called the ‘Bench Bistro’ offers simple, yet innovative dishes that pay homage to the area's bountiful harvests and local producers.
   • Its less fertile fields hadn't produced much of a harvest, and they had been lucky surviving the winter intact.
   • The maize fields were also expected to produce a good harvest, with enough maize for feed and export.
   • UN agencies say, however, the harvest yielded less than 900 000 tons.

   Synonyms

   yield, crop, vintage, year's growth

   fruits, produce
2. 1.2 A quantity of animals caught or killed for human use.
   a limited harvest of wild mink

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   • Wildlife experts like Henley and Habel are more concerned about harvests of wild fish like paddlefish than of trout, which is being grown in aquaculture facilities.
   • The wild harvest - which begins on September 6 this year - is generally capped at around 35,000 animals.
   • In the olden days on St Kilda and at several bleak rocky points east, tenacious hunters would dangle off perilous cliffs to catch their harvest.
   • The annual throng of whitebaiters converging on Lake Ferry has been subject to an unseasonal interruption to the harvest just as catches were beginning to grow.
   • The industry currently harvests about 3.2 million animals per year, which are processed for their skins and meat.
   • The good news is that Nicaragua is now cracking down on this animal harvest.
   • If you're someone who protests the harvest of animals, think about what you're doing.
   • But human harvest of horseshoe crabs has reduced the egg surplus.
   • Chile is one of the countries closest to toothfish territory and catches and exports a large share of the toothfish harvest.
   • This function might improve cellular water retention under the stress incurred during the transport of animals for harvest.
   • In a wild population, this theory implies that the remaining animals after a harvest will increase their reproductive rate to compensate.
   • The eastern North Pacific stock of gray whales has been increasing in recent years despite known harvests and other human caused mortalities.
   • Inshore catch rates peaked in 1993 with a total harvest of 420,000 kilograms during an 18-week fishery.
   • The biologist believed that the herd would soon be in trouble and that the animal harvest would have to be reduced.
   • Humans continue to illegally harvest Pteronura brasiliensis for pelts.
   • Scotland's premier chef knows all about wild harvests, which is why he's thrilled that autumn is here again
   • According to one elder interviewed, ensuring the animal was fat was an important part of the harvest.
   • Fishermen and their representative bodies have always been more than capable of policing themselves and restricting their harvest of wild fish.
   • Sex ratios could differ between the historical and modern beluga harvests because the modern hunters' preference for larger animals tends to bias their selection towards males.
3. 1.3 The product or result of an action.
   in terms of science, Apollo yielded a meagre harvest

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   • Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
   • Inflation, shortages, and declining production were the harvest of five years of perestroika and glasnost.
   • The futile effort to ‘eradicate’ marijuana has produced a harvest of misery.
   • They reaped a rich harvest in the middle third during the first half, but their opponents had the cushion of Gooch's moment of magic.
   • Indian theatre has produced harvests in many languages.
   • But Redhefer seems to be reaping a rich harvest from the public deception.
   • I am doubly sure, between Levy and Sylvia, something will be done to that effect, which could just produce a bumper harvest of votes for both, next year.
   • And he has been able to work out what is good, and what results in a harvest of votes at the other end.
   • Will the second half of the calendar which is about to begin produce a more lucrative harvest for Peugeot?
   • The paradox is that a search for a unifying center fails, but it has produced a harvest of insights into the riches of the Bible.
   • And so, once again, the Democrats reaped the bitter harvest of their own pallor and incompetence.
   • I suspect Dr. Colbert has reaped a healthy harvest from the sale of these best-selling books.
   • The US invented basketball, and are now reaping its harvest.
   • Curiosity about fundamental biological mechanisms has yielded a rich harvest of useful knowledge.
   • Such a policy will inevitably produce a bumper harvest of both ‘normal’ and unanticipated ‘abnormal’ results.
   • Meanwhile, the US Navy was reaping a rich harvest from its years of wargaming.
   • Bankers are throwing money at him to reap bigger harvests.

   Synonyms

   return, result, fruits

   product, effect, consequence, output

1Gather (a crop) as a harvest.

1. 1.1 Catch or kill (animals) for human consumption.
   the quantity of squid harvested has risen

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   • The solution, even for Birgit and Jurgen who have spent half a lifetime with the animals, is to harvest them for their meat.
   • Could we conceivably ever get to a stage where we would have to harvest and eat other humans to get by?
   • In this case the market demand exceeds the supply and some of the harvesters now travel 200 Km to harvest the bugs.
   • The bulk of the domestic shrimp catch is harvested by trawlers in the Gulf of Mexico.
   • If you keep harvesting the wildlife turtles, you'll have not enough numbers.
   • Nearly all of those sharks are harvested by Spanish fishing fleets, whose other traditional commercial fish species have declined.
   • There are several hundred species of shark, but only a handful of these are harvested for food.
   • This South Wales operation uses hand-raking and sieving to harvest the molluscs.
   • Two of the species to be harvested in larger quantities are considered endangered.
   • Wormers must now record their daily haul, and they are required to harvest the worms on a rotational basis, leaving some beaches to lie fallow for a season.
   • This new decision replaces the 2001 Bird Protection Act, which set limits on when the birds can be harvested.
   • They have the right to harvest one whale every two years.
   • Walleye pollock, more than half of all Bering bottom fish, are harvested in the world's largest single species fishery.
   • Without this support relocated insects would soon be harvested, providing a very expensive meal for a few people.
   • My unprofessional opinion of these techniques of harvesting the eels is that it has made a dent in the eel population.
   • Here they reach 3 or 4kg and become the most sought-after of the Pacific salmon, actively harvested by both commercial and sports fisheries.
   • I will even eat the strange species of fish which are being harvested in the southern hemisphere and offered as an alternative to our cod and haddock.
   • The Anishinabe nation depends on the land, eating and harvesting the animals and fish as they have for thousands of years.
   • Shrimp, crab, and a variety of fish are harvested from the ocean.
   • So the International Whaling Commission was formed in order to place limits on the number of whales which could be harvested each year.
2. 1.2 Remove (cells, tissue, or an organ) from a person or animal for experiment or transplant.
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   • As recently as last month, a Gallup poll found that most Americans opposed both cloning for reproductive purposes and research cloning performed to harvest stem cells from human embryos.
   • New alternatives, which are currently experimental, include harvesting stem cells from umbilical cord blood or placentas of new born babies.
   • Stem cells are harvested from bone marrow, umbilical cords, the brain and spinal cord and other tissues.
   • The mouse lymphoma cells were treated for 4 or 24 h and the cells were harvested for RNA isolation at the end of the treatment.
   • What's much safer is an autologous transplant where a person's own stem cells are harvested either from their blood or bone marrow.
   • If you believe that allowing the diseases that can be cured by stem cells harvested from zygotes is the greater evil, then support research.
   • In one experiment scientists harvested a subpopulation of non-trophoblastic placental cells, grew them up, and seeded them on to a polymer scaffold.
   • Twenty-four hours after transfection, the cells were harvested and the plasmid DNA recovered.
   • Stem cells usually are harvested after three to five days from a blastocyst - an early stage of development before implantation in the uterus.
   • For some experiments, tissue was harvested from tissue-culture plants.
   • The stem cells were harvested from the patient's own bone marrow and injected into the ventricle.
   • Stem cells would be harvested from the blastocyst and transformed into the desired tissues for transplant.
   • However, the process is controversial because many stem cells are harvested from discarded embryos.
   • Researchers funded by government money could not harvest any more stem cell lines from embryos, but they could use those cell lines that had already been made.
   • Most organs for transplant are harvested from brain-dead cadavers, although a few come from living donors.
   • The cloned cells were harvested, expanded in culture, and transferred to three-dimensional molds.
   • To harvest stem cells for medical use an embryo would need to reach a minimum of 64 cells.
   • In gene therapy, orthopedic surgeons harvest cells from a patient, modify them and return them to a particular area of the body.
   • She is particularly interested in learning how other labs increased their success rate harvesting stem cells from early embryos.
   • Mycelial tissue was harvested, lyophilized, submerged in liquid nitrogen and ground into a powder.
3. 1.3 Collect or obtain (a resource) for future use.
   the research teams are leading the way in identifying new ways of harvesting the sun's energy

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   • The capsule held billions of charged atoms - a total haul no bigger than a few grains of salt - that were harvested from solar wind on five collecting disks during the 884-day, $260-million mission.
   • A government grant - that is, public money harvested from all of us - of more than £47m was given to economically deprived east Brighton three years ago, to "revitalise" the area.
   • That could make consumer-friendly computers running on harvested energy workable.
   • Green buildings can harvest energy from the sun with 20 % of their energy requirement coming from solar cells.
   • There is an abundance of energy waiting to be harvested from oceans around the world.
   • The power supply would be harvested by solar panels, housed on a lunar orbiting power station.
   • Natalie hires the three kids to harvest copper wire from telephone poles in clandestine raids.
   • Its soil contains raw materials that might be harvested and processed into rocket fuel or breathable air.
   • Only a failure of public and private investment leaves the country (and the world) unable to harvest renewable energy efficiently.
   • The resin harvested from the trees made eco-friendly turpentine, replacing imported petroleum-based products.
   • Worldwide, 1.5 million kilograms of coral are harvested annually.
   • It is often assumed that the resource can be harvested up to a certain level without depleting it.
   • The floating pads, created for a Princeton architecture school thesis, harvest the energy of waves.
   • Another substance that potentially can be harvested from the Moon is oxygen.
   • If ice does exist there, it could be harvested and used for drinking water or broken down into hydrogen and oxygen.
   • Plants and bacteria have been harvesting solar energy and converting it into chemical forms of energy through a process known as (I'm guessing you've heard of it) photosynthesis for, um, a really long time.
   • This hydrogen could be harvested and used for propellants or combined with oxygen to make water.
   • Environmentally friendly features of the armory include a water catchment system to harvest rainwater for use in art features and plumbing, onsite electrical generation through a natural-gas fired microturbine, and fuel cells, daylighting, and natural ventilation to reduce dependence on air conditioning.