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🌾 Gathering crops 🌾 To gather crops 🫀 To remove organs 💾 To collect data 🏆 Result gained 💾 Large data collection
to harvest

to harvest

22 5.4
To collect large amounts of data from many sources using computer programs
  • verb
  • /ˈhɑrvɪst/
  • Texting
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  • The idea of this, we'll, we'll partner with Reddit to harvest their data to build our model and provide answers.
  • harvest data
  • harvest records
  • harvest metadata

And you know with your data is being harvested so tech billionaires can get even richer.

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Examples

  • In doing so, however, Google could possibly harvest information on your tabbed browsing habits.

    Blog text (16)

  • Next one Google vows to delete data harvested during Incognito sessions.

  • We might harvest data from this one yet.

    Femalien: Cosmic Crush (2020)

  • ... which I harvest by the hundreds.

    Coffee Town (2013)

  • And so this is a, you know, a, a no knowledge way of harvesting a huge amount of information.

  • Techniques used to prevent "spam bots" from harvesting email addresses will be revealed.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Instead of merging records during ingest, the Search TRLN system harvests and indexes the entire bibliographic database for each TRLN institution.

    Academic text (2013)

  • We can harvest data from various databases to improve our analysis.

  • The company uses advanced software to harvest insights from consumer behavior online.

  • Teams use automated scripts to harvest information from public records for research purposes.

Synonyms

to strip-mine
vsto harvest
  • Literature
7.1

Take large amounts of data quickly from a website or database to sell

collects data systematically using tools for analysis profiling or surveillance

Idioms

to reap the harvest
1 3.7

To get the results of work, for example gather crops at harvest

Compounds

harvest time
8 1.0

The time of year when farmers gather crops from fields

harvest moon
6 4.7

A full moon that comes soon after the start of autumn and gives extra light for farmers

harvest festival
5 3.3

A community celebration that marks the end of the harvest with food and music

good harvest
2 1.6

A time when crops grow well and give a lot of food

harvest home
  • Archaic
1 7.2

A festival at the end of the farming year when people gather to celebrate crops

harvest mouse
1 4.4

A small mouse that lives in fields and climbs tall grasses

summer harvest
1 2.3

Crops that are gathered in summer, such as fruits and vegetables

American harvest mouse
  • US
8.3

A small gray mouse in North and Central America that lives in grain fields and tall grass

harvest fly
  • Archaic
8.1

A loud insect that sings in summer, often in July and August

harvest mite
  • UK
8.1

A very small baby bug that bites people and makes red itchy bumps on the skin

harvest-lice
  • UK
9.9

An upright plant that lives for many years and grows in dry grassy places

How Extensive

to harvest
  • Texting
22 5.4
to scrape
  • Texting
5 5.3
to collect
499 1.1
sample
∞ 2.3

Surface Forms

harvest infinitive
harvested past
harvested past participle
harvesting present participle
harvests third person singular

Etymology

Harvest in technology uses the crop image too: to harvest data is to collect large amounts of information, often using computer programs, just like gathering a crop at harvest time. So to harvest data means to pull together many records for analysis or profiles.