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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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Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest.
Gleaning means to gather grain or other produce left behind in a field after harvest. It can also mean to collect bit by bit or to extract information from a source. See synonyms, pronunciation and usage examples of gleaning.
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.
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.
glean meaning, definition, what is glean: to find out information slowly and with ...: Learn more.
If you glean something such as information or knowledge, you learn or collect it slowly and patiently, and perhaps indirectly. Thai : ตามเก็บรวบรวม New from Collins
to discover information slowly or with difficulty: [ often passive ] Some useful information can be gleaned from this study. (Definition of glean from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of glean. in Chinese (Traditional) 緩慢艱難地收集（資訊）… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 缓慢艰难地收集（信息）… See more. in Spanish.
