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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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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. : to pick over in search of relevant material. gleaning old files for information. 3. : find out.
GLEAN definition: 1. to collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty: 2. to collect information in…. Learn more.
GLEAN meaning: 1. to collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty: 2. to collect information in…. Learn more.
Glean definition: to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.. See examples of GLEAN used in a sentence.
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.
1. to gather, learn, or find out, usu. bit by bit or slowly and laboriously: to glean information. 2. to gather (grain or the like) after the reapers or regular gatherers. v.i. 3. to collect or gather anything little by little or slowly. 4. to gather what is left by reapers.
