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colher — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • gather verb To bring separate things or people together in one place.
  • harvest noun The gathering in of a ripe crop, or the crop itself once gathered.
  • pick verb To choose one thing from a number of options.
  • reap verb To cut and gather a crop, especially grain.
  • spoon noun A utensil with a small shallow bowl on a handle, used for eating, stirring, or serving.
  • tablespoon noun A large spoon, used for eating food from a bowl.

Senses

colher is used for these senses in English:

  • gather Especially, to harvest food.
  • harvest (transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
  • long-tailed tit Any of many subspecies of small passerine birds with long tails, Aegithalos caudatus, found throughout Europe and Asia
  • pick To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
  • reap (transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
  • spoon lure (fishing) An oblong, concave lure, usually of metal or shell, shaped like the bowl of a spoon.
  • tablespoon (Canada, US) A large spoon, used for eating food from a bowl.

gather — full definition

  1. verb To bring separate things or people together in one place.
  2. verb To collect or accumulate something gradually.
  3. verb To conclude or infer something from information available.

harvest — full definition

  1. noun The gathering in of a ripe crop, or the crop itself once gathered.
  2. noun The season when crops are gathered, roughly early autumn.
  3. noun The reward or result that comes from an effort or action.
  4. verb To gather a ripe crop, or to collect something else useful (data, organs, resources) in a similar organized way.

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