| 单词 | reaper |
| 释义 | reaper (once / 6090 pages) n The noun reaper refers to a person who harvests crops. If your part-time job involves harvesting corn by hand, then you're a reaper. Reaper can also refer to a piece of farm equipment used to harvest crops, especially grains. It's not a coincidence that reap looks a lot like the word ripe. When the crops are ripe — in Old English, "ready for reaping, fit for eating" — a reaper, either human or mechanical, can harvest them. Reap means "to cut grain with a hook or sickle." This might remind you of the Grim Reaper, the personification of death in art, movies, and stories, who is shown carrying a sickle and is said to be the harvester of souls. WORD FAMILYreaper: reapers+/reap: reaped, reaper, reaping, reaps USAGE EXAMPLESIn it he plays a monk, a poncho-wearing evangelist, a superhero, the grim reaper, a red puffy man and himself. The Guardian(Dec 20, 2016) The new record from Metallica takes its inspiration from the failures of the human spirit — the suicidal reaper resting within every heart. Salon(Nov 26, 2016) "It's been a frosty reception in some places, you're walking in like the grim reaper... but they've been welcoming here," one of them says. BBC(Aug 28, 2016) 1n someone who helps to gather the harvest Syn|Hypo|Hyper harvester vintager a person who harvests grapes for making wine farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhand a hired hand on a farm 2n farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields Syn|Hypo|Hyper harvester binder, reaper binder a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves combineharvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field headera machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon farm machine a machine used in farming Reaper (once / 32561 pages) n WORD FAMILY Reaper: Reapers USAGE EXAMPLESThe drones will be variants of the Reaper, the more advanced version of the Predator. The Guardian(Dec 03, 2016) The Predator and Reaper drones at the base in Niamey may look intimidating, but they are used for surveillance, not launching strikes. Economist(Nov 24, 2016) He is also a kindly Grim Reaper, or Hermes ready to escort the souls of the dead down to the water. Slate(Nov 11, 2016) n Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe Syn|Exp Grim Reaper Death the personification of death |
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