harvester
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈhɑːrvɪstər/
- Specialized
:
programa de recolección
- The cops said it was a "maniac," but he looked like, I don't know, like he'd gone through a combine harvester or something.
Examples
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Google, as a company, is one of the largest harvesters of private information in the world.
Blog text (1) -
And it wasn't what I'd expected, the blood and the smell of the cautery and that skin harvester thing...
Fiction book (1994) -
The skin harvester looked like a cross between an electric sander and a sod cutter.
Fiction book (1994) -
Woods harvests the spores three times a week with a vacuum harvester and freezes them for later use.
Academic text (2004) -
PHOTO (COLOR): A corn harvester with a GPS satellite link and yield-monitoring equipment passes near a soil erosion control structure on a Midwestern farm.
Academic text (1996) -
PHOTO (COLOR): In the cab of a corn harvester, University of Maryland technician Tracy Runner checks readings on a digital yield monitor.
Academic text (1996) -
Cells were then harvested onto glass fiber filters with a semi-automatic cell harvester, and thymidine incorporation was determined by liquid scintillation counting.
Academic text (1999) -
Nah, whirlwind harvesters, Freudian lock-step japes, Pavlovian pod-people, reality creates the words!
Blog text (15) -
Teoman Uzkan has had a distinguished engineering career that has spanned over 35 years with General Electric, the Turkish Navy, Bogazici University, International Harvester, and General Motors' electromotive division, where he is presently a staff research scientist.
Academic text (2002) -
The automated harvester collects data from various websites for our analysis.
Synonyms
1
6.1
A computer program that finds useful data in web pages or documents
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6.6
A program that automatically collects data from websites by reading their pages
How Complete
- Specialized
1
6.8
- Texting
8
6.7
- Specialized
8
4.4
- Specialized
4
6.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Harvester in computing uses the same image: it comes from harvest plus -er, and you can think of it as 'one who gathers'. A helpful way to remember this sense is to imagine a machine collecting data like a farm harvester collecting crops, so a data harvester automatically gathers large amounts of information.