Harvestとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• (all obsolete or dialectal) harvist, hervest, harst, hairst

語源

From 中期英語 harvest, hervest, from 古期英語 hærfest (“autumn, harvest-time; August”), from Proto-West Germanic *harbist, from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest-time, autumn, fall”), from *harbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/, /ˈhɑɹ.vɪst/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vɪst/, /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vəst/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈhaːvəst/

名詞

harvest (countable and uncountable, plural harvests)

1. (agriculture) The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.

   The constant rain made the harvest a nightmare this year.

2. The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.

   This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous.

   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

     Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.

   • 1911, Jack London, The Whale Tooth:

     The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.

   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

     To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.

3. (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.

   The surveillance mission yielded a healthy harvest of intel.

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.

   • 1815, William Wordsworth, A Poet's Epitaph:

     the harvest of a quiet eye

4. The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
5. (UK, dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.

   Harvest is usually very damp and rainy.

6. (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.

同意語

• (agricultural or horticultural yield): crop, gather,
• (season of the year): autumn, fall

派生語

動詞

harvest (third-person singular simple present harvests, present participle harvesting, simple past and past participle harvested)

1. (transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.

   We harvested the apples in September already.

2. (transitive) To take a living organism as part of a managed process to gather food or resources, often with the intention of maintaining a healthy population.

   An efficient rifle or shotgun can harvest a deer for venison.

3. (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest.

   We're going to harvest day and night, because the weather is about to turn sour.

4. (transitive) To win, achieve a gain.

   The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21.

派生語

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