different between rep vs glean

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

Clippings of various words beginning with rep.

Noun

rep (plural reps)

1. (informal) Clipping of reputation.
2. (weightlifting, countable) Clipping of repetition.

3. (informal) Clipping of representative.
4. (theater) Clipping of repertory.

5. (military, in combination) Clipping of report.

Translations

Verb

rep (third-person singular simple present reps, present participle repping, simple past and past participle repped)

1. To represent; to act as a representative for.
2. (knitting) repeat

Etymology 2

Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.

Alternative forms

• repp

Noun

rep (countable and uncountable, plural reps)

1. (textiles) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface. [from 19th c.]

Translations

Anagrams

• EPR, ERP, PER, Per., RPE, per, per-, per., pre, pre-

Catalan

Verb

rep

1. third-person singular present indicative form of rebre
2. second-person singular imperative form of rebre

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p

Verb

rep

1. first-person singular present indicative of reppen
2. imperative of reppen

Anagrams

• per

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• reip (Nynorsk also)

Etymology

From Old Norse reip

Noun

rep n (definite singular repet, indefinite plural rep, definite plural repa or repene)

1. a rope

Synonyms

• tau

References

• “rep” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *r?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rê?p/

Noun

r?p m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. tail

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *r?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??p/, /ré?p/

Noun

r?p or r??p m inan

1. tail

Inflection

Further reading

• “rep”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *raip?, *raipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *roypnós (“strap, band, rope”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?p/, [?re??p]
• Rhymes: -e?p

Noun

rep n

1. rope

Declension

See also

• lina
• snöre
• tråd
• tåg

Anagrams

• Per, per

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English glenen, from Anglo-Norman glener, from Late Latin glen(n)? (“make a collection”), from Gaulish, possibly from Proto-Celtic *glanos.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?li?n/
• Hyphenation: glean
• Rhymes: -i?n

Verb

glean (third-person singular simple present gleans, present participle gleaning, simple past and past participle gleaned)

1. To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.

   Synonym: lease

   • Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.

2. To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard).

3. (figuratively) To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.

   Synonym: learn

   • content to glean what we can from […] experiments

   • 8 December 2011, BBC News, Iran shows film of captured US drone, available in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098562 :

     He said Iran was "well aware of what priceless technological information" could be gleaned from the aircraft.

4. To frugally accumulate resources from low-yield contexts.

Translations

Noun

glean (plural gleans)

1. A collection made by gleaning.

   • The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.

Etymology 2

Noun

glean

1. (obsolete) cleaning; afterbirth

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)

References

Anagrams

• -angle, Angel, Angle, Elgan, Galen, Lange, Legan, Nagle, agnel, angel, angle, genal, lenga

Manx

Noun

glean m

1. Eclipsed form of clean.

Mutation