REAP  收獲

AGRICULTURAL WORK INTENDING to OBTAIN HARVEST.
Hypernym
  • AGRICULTUREWORK IN FIELDS TO REAR USEFUL PLANTS. 
    • WORKMake an EFFORT ENDURINGLY CONFORMING to a PLAN, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE an AIM, and OFTEN IN ORDER TO be PAID a SALARY.
      • EFFORTDELIBERATE DILIGENT TRY:attempt to SUCCEED in an ACTION.
        • TRYACT, BUT DOUBT WHETHER one WILL be SUCCESSFUL ACTING....
See also
  • HARVESTGRAIN, FRUITS ETC. REAPED in AUTUMN.
    Hyponym
    • HARVEST GRAIN, FRUITS ETC. REAPED in AUTUMN.
      • MOW REAP by CUTTING THINGS RESEMBLING GRASS.
        Old Chinese Criteria
        1. Huò 穫 and sè 穡 refer to the action of harvesting grain in general.

        2. Yì 刈 refers to harvesting grain with special focus on the cutting of the grain.

        3. Shōu 收 and liǎn 斂 refers to harvesting with special focus on the ability to collect, retain and use what is harvested.

        NB: For the nominal usages see HARVEST.

        Modern Chinese Criteria
        收割



        收獲

        秋收

        搶收

        麥收

        rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /

        • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 8.32

          獲,穫

          1. For harvesting, both can be used, but for catching wild animals one cannot use huo4 穫. This is so.

          2. However, as a marginal footnote it must be noted that not only 穀物 can be harvested huo4 穫, also the harvesting of beans can be described as huo4 穫.

        • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 704

        Attributions by syntactic funtion

        • vi : 17
        • vtoN : 16
        • vt(oN) : 2
        • nab : 1

        Attributions by text

        • 管子 : 14
        • 毛詩 : 6
        • 禮記 : 3
        • 荀子 : 2
        • 呂氏春秋 : 2
        • 春秋左傳 : 1
        • 尚書 : 1
        • 論衡 : 1
        • 鹽鐵論 : 1
        • 百喻經 : 1
        • 孟子 : 1
        • 法言 : 1
        • 韓詩外傳 : 1
        • 楚辭 : 1

        Words

          huò OC: ɢʷaaɡ MC: ɦɑk
          huò OC: ɢʷreeɡ MC: ɦɣɛk 28 AttributionsWD

        Huò 穫 and sè 穡 refer to the action of harvesting grain in general.

          Syntactic words
        • viactto harvest grain, reap the harvest
        • vt(oN)reap the contextually determinate thing
        • vtoNto harvest (grain)
        • vtoNfigurativereap (reproaches etc)
          shōu OC: qjiw MC: ɕɨu 6 AttributionsWD

        Shōu 收 and liǎn 斂 refers to harvesting with special focus on the ability to collect, retain and use what is harvested.

          Syntactic words
        • viactharvest; collect the harvest
        • vtoNto harvest
        • vtoNpassiveget harvested, get reaped
          liǎn OC: ɡ-romʔ MC: liɛm 1 AttributionWD

        Shōu 收 and liǎn 斂 refers to harvesting with special focus on the ability to collect, retain and use what is harvested.

          Syntactic words
        • nabactthe process of harvesting
          sè OC: srɯɡ MC: ʂɨk 1 AttributionWD

        Huò 穫 and sè 穡 refer to the action of harvesting grain in general.

          Syntactic words
        • viactto harvest; to reap
        • vtoNharvest; gather
          yì OC: ŋads MC: ŋi̯ɐi 0 AttributionsWD

        Yì 刈 refers to harvesting grain with special focus on the cutting of the grain.

          Syntactic words
          xiàn MC: -- OC: ljans 0 AttributionsWD

        Xiàn 羨

          Syntactic words
        • vtoNoccasionally, apparently: reap a good harvest

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