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- Dictionaryglean/ɡliːn/
verb
- 1. obtain (information) from various sources, often with difficulty: "the information is gleaned from press cuttings"
- 2. gather (leftover grain) after a harvest: historical "the conditions of farm workers in the 1890s made gleaning essential"
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GLEAN definition: 1. to collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty: 2. to collect information in…. Learn more.
: to gather information or material bit by bit. transitive verb. 1. a. : to pick up after a reaper. b. : to strip of the leavings of reapers. glean a field. 2. a. : to gather (something, such as information) bit by bit. can glean secrets from his hard drive. b.
GLEAN meaning: 1. to collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty: 2. to collect information in…. Learn more.
Glean means to gather bit by bit, either literally or figuratively. You might glean leftover grain from a recently harvested field or glean information about new vocabulary words by hearing them used in context. When you glean information, you sort through ideas and take what you need.
If you glean something such as information or knowledge, you learn or collect it slowly and patiently, and perhaps indirectly.
Glean definition: to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.. See examples of GLEAN used in a sentence.
glean something (from somebody/something) to obtain information, knowledge, etc., sometimes with difficulty and often from various different places. These figures have been gleaned from a number of studies.
GLEAN meaning: to discover information slowly or with difficulty: . Learn more.
Definitions of 'glean' If you glean something such as information or knowledge, you learn or collect it slowly and patiently, and perhaps indirectly. [...] More. Pronunciations of 'glean' American English: glin British English: gliːn. More. Conjugations of 'glean' present simple: I glean, you glean [...] past simple: I gleaned, you gleaned [...]
Glean Definition. To collect or find out (facts, etc.) gradually or bit by bit. To examine or go through (books, etc.) so as to collect certain information. To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering. A collection made by gleaning.
