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From the Cambridge English Corpus. More 'intelligent' agents monitor environments, glean information, make a decision to react or not, and modify their behaviour according to the results received. From the Cambridge English Corpus. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.
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At present we're gleaning information from all sources. [VERB noun + from] 10,000 pages of evidence were gleaned from hundreds and hundreds of interviews. [be VERB -ed + from] Synonyms: gather, learn, pick up, collect More Synonyms of glean. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
Add to word list. Add to word list. to collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty: From what I was able to glean, the news isn't good. glean something (from someone) They're leaving on Tuesday - I managed to glean that much (from them). SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
verb. to gather (something) slowly and carefully in small pieces. to glean information from the newspapers. to gather (the useful remnants of a crop) from the field after harvesting.
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.
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.
transitive verb. If you glean something such as information or knowledge, you learn or collect it slowly and patiently, and perhaps indirectly. At present we're gleaning information from all sources. Synonyms: gather, learn, pick up, collect More Synonyms of glean. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
glean meaning, definition, what is glean: to find out information slowly and with ...: Learn more.
