Reap

English

Verb

Reap (third-person singular simple present Reaps, present participle Reaping, simple past and past participle Reaped)

1. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
2. 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

3. (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.
4. (obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

Derived terms

• reaper
• reap what one sows
• sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

Noun

Reap (plural Reaps)

1. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

Adverbs for Reap

meritoriously; vigorously; seasonally; happily; gratefully; handsomely; rightfully.

Thesaurus

abbreviate, abridge, abstract, acquire, bag, be seized of, bob, boil down, bring in, capsulize, capture, catch, clip, come by, come in for, come into, compress, condense, contract, corral, crop, crop herbs, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, derive, dig, dock, drag down, draw, earn, elide, enter into possession, epitomize, foreshorten, gain, garner, gather, gather in, get, glean, grabble, harvest, hay, make, mow, net, nip, nut, obtain, pick, pluck, poll, pollard, procure, profit, prune, pull down, reap and carry, recap, recapitulate, reduce, retrench, sack, score, secure, shave, shear, shorten, snub, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take, take in, take up, telescope, trim, truncate, win

Etymology

Middle English repen, from Old English repan, reopan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpanan (compare Middle Dutch repen, reipen, Middle Low German repen), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rep- 'to snatch' (compare Latin rapere 'to seize, plunder', Lithuanian ap-répti 'to seize, embrace', Albanian rjep 'to peel, strip away, tear off', Ancient Greek ἐρέπτομαι (ereptomai, “I feed on”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: rēp, IPA: /riːp/, SAMPA: /ri:p/

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• Rhymes: -iːp

Translations

Verb

to cut with a sickle

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 穫 (cmn), 获 (cmn) (huò), 收割 (cmn) (shōugē) Dutch: oogsten (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: niittää (fi) French: faucher (fr) German: ernten (de), schneiden (de)

Italian: mietere (it) Japanese: 刈る (ja) (かる, karu) Latin: tondeō (la) Macedonian: жнее (mk) (žnee) Polish: kosić (pl) Romanian: secera (ro) Russian: жать (ru) (žat’), сжать (ru) (sžat’) Spanish: segar (es), cosechar (es)

to receive as a reward

Dutch: oogsten (nl) Finnish: saada (fi), korjata (fi)

Italian: raccogliere (it) Portuguese: colher (pt)

Anagrams

• aper, pare, pear, rape