different between harvester vs reap

English

Etymology

harvest +? -er

Noun

harvester (plural harvesters)

1. (dated) A person who gathers the harvest.
2. A machine that gathers the harvest.
3. (computing) A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
4. A North American butterfly, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America
5. Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores
6. (Ireland) A finnock (young sea trout).

Derived terms

• combine harvester

Translations

See also

• reaper

Anagrams

• Everharts, reharvest

English

Etymology

From Middle English repen, from Old English r?opan, r?pan, variants of Old English r?pan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *r?pan, from Proto-Germanic *r?pan? (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reyb- (“to snatch”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?p, IPA^(key): /?i?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Verb

reap (third-person singular simple present reaps, present participle reaping, simple past and past participle reaped or (obsolete) reapt)

1. (transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
2. (transitive) To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
3. (transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
4. (transitive, computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

Derived terms

• reaper
• reap what one sows
• sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

Translations

Noun

reap (plural reaps)

1. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

Synonyms

• (bundle of grain): sheaf

Translations

Anagrams

• Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pare, pear, prae-, præ-, rape