
plant vs grow vs cultivate | WordReference Forums
Feb 13, 2022 · Plant means to put the seeds in the ground. Whether anything grows as a result of that is another matter. Grow can be intransitive or transitive. Flowers grow. You can grow flowers. Cultivate …
Crop vs Harvest - WordReference Forums
May 21, 2010 · Farmers harvest crops. "Crop" is material which is harvested. "Harvest" is a name/verb of the action/act to gather and get crops.
Collect/pick/harvest mushrooms - WordReference Forums
Aug 28, 2019 · You might use 'harvest' to suggest 'the bounty of nature' in the autumn, when many things ripen and can be harvested. Although, similarly, you could use 'harvest' in a technical sense …
To harvest an animal - WordReference Forums
Apr 20, 2013 · "Harvest" is a euphemism. It sounds as if the animal is a crop and crops are unfeeling and for food/other uses. By the use of "harvest", which has pleasant connotations, it is hoped that …
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you ...
Jul 28, 2006 · Hi~ How do you translate "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." (by Robert Louis Stevenson) to French? Thank you!
"Period between two harvests" | WordReference Forums
Oct 14, 2008 · I am not sure what you are asking. The period between two harvests (at least, of annual crops) is the year. Between planting and harvest is the growing season, and after the harvest, but …
reap the harvest [of something] | WordReference Forums
Oct 8, 2007 · Douglas Harper, Historian. the definition of harvest (accessed: January 08, 2016). So, it was natural for the redundant construction to be 'reap a harvest'. When this becomes desirable in …
loose ears of corn - WordReference Forums
May 29, 2024 · Hi Here is a maxim ascribed to Pythagoras, and I don't understand the underlined in its explanation: Pick not up what has fallen from the table. - Dacier. This maxim was believed to …
harvest the potential - WordReference Forums
Feb 1, 2017 · Good point. "Harvest" might make sense but " harness the potential" is the expected idiom. When you harvest something, you remove it from its source. After harvesting apples, the trees …
diverse vs diversed [diversified] | WordReference Forums
Aug 20, 2008 · In talking about your harvest, you can't use "diverse" in a true/false sense. Your harvest is "not very diverse", if it is all vegetables. But five different vegetable products is "more diverse" than …