'Harvesting' definitions:
Definition of 'harvesting'
From: WordNet
noun
The gathering of a ripened crop [syn: harvest, harvesting, harvest home]
Definition of 'Harvesting'
From: GCIDE
- Harvest \Har"vest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n. Harvesting.] To reap or gather, as any crop. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Harvesting'
From: GCIDE
- Harvesting \Har"vest*ing\, a. & n., from Harvest, v. t. [1913 Webster]
- Harvesting ant (Zool.), any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are Aphenogaster structor and Aphenogaster barbara; that of Texas, called agricultural ant, is Pogonomyrmex barbatus or Myrmica molifaciens; that of Florida is Pogonomyrmex crudelis. See Agricultural ant, under Agricultural. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'harvesting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- architecture,
- assembly,
- building,
- casting,
- composition,
- construction,
- conversion,
- crafting,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- crop,
- cropping,
- cultivation,
- cutting,
- devising,
- elaboration,
- erection,
- extraction,
- fabrication,
- fashioning,
- formation,
- forming,
- formulation,
- framing,
- gathering,
- gleaning,
- growing,
- handicraft,
- handiwork,
- harvest,
- ingathering,
- machining,
- making,
- manufacture,
- manufacturing,
- milling,
- mining,
- molding,
- nutting,
- prefabrication,
- preparation,
- processing,
- producing,
- raising,
- reaping,
- refining,
- shaping,
- smelting,
- workmanship