reap
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Etymology [edit]
Middle English repen, from Old English ripan, reopan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpanan (compare West Frisian repe, German reifsen ‘to snatch’, Norwegian ripa ‘to score, scratch’), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rep- ‘to snatch’ (compare Latin rapere ‘to seize, plunder’, Lithuanian aprépti 'to seize, embrace', Albanian rrjep ‘to peel, tear off’, Ancient Greek ἐρέπτομαι (eréptomai, “I feed on”)).
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Verb [edit]
reap (third-person singular simple present reaps, present participle reaping, simple past and past participle reaped or reapt)
- To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
- To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
- (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
- For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap. Gal.6.7
- (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
- (computer science) Act of a parent process acknowledging that its child process has exited, thereby removing it from the process table. Until the child process is reaped it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
- (obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
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Translations [edit]
to cut with a sickle
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to receive as a reward
Noun [edit]
reap (plural reaps)
- A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
