gleaning
- noun
- /ˈɡlinɪŋ/
- The farm has plans for farmer training, farm-to-school field trips, a farm-to-cafeteria program, a gleaning program, seed saving, and more.
- gleaning efforts
- gleaning efforts to feed
It's been a tool for gleaning invaluable insights into my own mind and for awakening a more compassionate view of myself and those around me.
- It's been a tool for gleaning invaluable insights into my own mind and for awakening a more compassionate view of myself and those around me.
Examples
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One of the Gleaning Project's first experiments was green garlic, a crop that's less perishable than most, making it the perfect starter crop.
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Adam Roberts has spent the past year traveling from kitchen to kitchen, gleaning secrets, tips, and recipes from the best chefs in the country.
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We should be focused on gleaning techniques and ways of thinking from various sources to build what works for us as individuals.
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This was known as the gleaning of the fields.
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Plus, there were not a lot of social scientists in history to report the conditions of elders, so we are stuck in many cases with gleaning what we can from surviving materials.
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While many sites mentioned earlier can provide meaningful experiences for students outside general music class, greater opportunities exist with broader-based projects that call for students to visit multiple Internet sites, gleaning and synthesizing information on specific topics.
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The SQ3R strategy is one of the most prominent techniques for gleaning information from text (Vaughn & Bos, 2009).
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Ruth's quote matches better to the book than the Boaz quote does; however, the nature of Boaz is shown: he followed the law of gleaning to the poor. Boaz was for sure more about his commitments.
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NVivo helps researchers manage and organize data, and facilitates the analysis of data, identification of themes, gleaning insight, and developing conclusions (Sotiriadou et al. 2014).
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The volunteers engaged in gleaning fields after the harvest, collecting leftover vegetables to distribute to those in need.
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Etymology
The word gleaning comes from an old French verb glener that meant 'to pick up leftover grain' after the harvest, so imagine people walking the fields and gathering single grains by hand. That's why gleaning now means collecting leftovers or facts little by little.