Reap
verb
To cut and collect a crop like wheat.
Farmers are reaping the wheat.
Often appears as...
- reap crops
- reap harvest
verb
To get something as a result of the actions you have made.
They are reaping the benefits of their hard work.
Often appears as...
- reap rewards
- reap benefits
verb
To cause or allow (a certain situation) to happen.
You reap what you sow, which means you have to live with the results of your actions.
Usage tips
Idiomatic
verb
To cut and collect a crop like wheat.
Farmers are reaping the wheat.
Often appears as...
- reap crops
- reap harvest
verb
To get something as a result of the actions you have made.
They are reaping the benefits of their hard work.
Often appears as...
- reap rewards
- reap benefits
verb
To cause or allow (a certain situation) to happen.
You reap what you sow, which means you have to live with the results of your actions.
Usage tips
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Origins
Originally, 'reap' referred specifically to cutting down and collecting crops.
After months of care, the farmers reap their fields at harvest time.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Action
Reaping involves physical work and is often associated with the use of tools like scythes.
Before machinery, reaping was done manually.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Activity
'Reap' can imply a seasonal event, especially in relation to traditional farming cycles.
The villagers celebrate the time to reap with a festival.
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Origins
Originally, 'reap' referred specifically to cutting down and collecting crops.
After months of care, the farmers reap their fields at harvest time.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Action
Reaping involves physical work and is often associated with the use of tools like scythes.
Before machinery, reaping was done manually.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Activity
'Reap' can imply a seasonal event, especially in relation to traditional farming cycles.
The villagers celebrate the time to reap with a festival.
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Origins
Originally, 'reap' referred specifically to cutting down and collecting crops.
After months of care, the farmers reap their fields at harvest time.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Action
Reaping involves physical work and is often associated with the use of tools like scythes.
Before machinery, reaping was done manually.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Activity
'Reap' can imply a seasonal event, especially in relation to traditional farming cycles.
The villagers celebrate the time to reap with a festival.
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Steven Pinker and...
The advantages derived from peace diffuse themselves far and wide, and reach great numbers, while in war, if anything turns out happily, the advantage redounds only to a few, and those unworthy of reaping it. One man's safety is owing to the destruction of another. One man's prize is derived from the plunder of another.
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The power to think ahead...
But they also knew that in order to get farmers to grow these crops in the short run, they needed to boost the annual yields of the crops and find companies willing to make cereal and beer using the grains so that farmers could reap profits today by doing what's good for tomorrow.
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Am I not human? A call...
That's what I call a positive return of investment. Above all else, what building that program taught me was that when we sow, when we invest in the humanity of people no matter where they're at, we can reap amazing rewards. In this latest era of criminal justice reform,
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Baboon Parenting PIPE Wild...
parenting this might seem selfless but it can reap rewards for the males two males caring for babies are less often threatened by the males this can be an advantage the lower-ranking more henpecked males of the troop but it doesn't protect them altogether and it
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How policewomen make...
but more importantly, in how they police. The law-enforcement community is admittedly experiencing a recruitment crisis. Yet, if they truly want to increase the number of applicants, they can. We can easily recruit more women and reap all those research benefits
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How to use rhetoric to...
The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed
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How a handful of fishing...
we're seeing the same story that when we design it right, marine conservation reaps dividends that go far beyond protecting nature, improving catches and driving waves of social change along entire coastlines,
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The building of...
uhnot Minh in the cupola slant urn this created the world's largest sundial and they were able to recalculate the summer solstice then those astronomical calculations were reap lauded in two shipping routes
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Chatting with Cannibals...
I've earned it I'm helped cut it up I'm joined in making a MooMoo hot rocks all over the place burnt my fingers and now I'm reaping the reward this is a look at the beautiful
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In Cambodia, a City of...
deep in the forests of cambodia siem reap province an ancient stone city soars skyward
Video examples
Steven Pinker and...
The advantages derived from peace diffuse themselves far and wide, and reach great numbers, while in war, if anything turns out happily, the advantage redounds only to a few, and those unworthy of reaping it. One man's safety is owing to the destruction of another. One man's prize is derived from the plunder of another.
Video examples
The power to think ahead...
But they also knew that in order to get farmers to grow these crops in the short run, they needed to boost the annual yields of the crops and find companies willing to make cereal and beer using the grains so that farmers could reap profits today by doing what's good for tomorrow.
Video examples
Am I not human? A call...
That's what I call a positive return of investment. Above all else, what building that program taught me was that when we sow, when we invest in the humanity of people no matter where they're at, we can reap amazing rewards. In this latest era of criminal justice reform,
Video examples
Baboon Parenting PIPE Wild...
parenting this might seem selfless but it can reap rewards for the males two males caring for babies are less often threatened by the males this can be an advantage the lower-ranking more henpecked males of the troop but it doesn't protect them altogether and it
Video examples
How policewomen make...
but more importantly, in how they police. The law-enforcement community is admittedly experiencing a recruitment crisis. Yet, if they truly want to increase the number of applicants, they can. We can easily recruit more women and reap all those research benefits
Video examples
How to use rhetoric to...
The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed
Video examples
How a handful of fishing...
we're seeing the same story that when we design it right, marine conservation reaps dividends that go far beyond protecting nature, improving catches and driving waves of social change along entire coastlines,
Video examples
The building of...
uhnot Minh in the cupola slant urn this created the world's largest sundial and they were able to recalculate the summer solstice then those astronomical calculations were reap lauded in two shipping routes
Video examples
Chatting with Cannibals...
I've earned it I'm helped cut it up I'm joined in making a MooMoo hot rocks all over the place burnt my fingers and now I'm reaping the reward this is a look at the beautiful
Video examples
In Cambodia, a City of...
deep in the forests of cambodia siem reap province an ancient stone city soars skyward
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Clive Lewis
We were the first country in the world to carbonise our economy and to reap the huge economic rewards that followed and it is right that we now invest some of that wealth in fully decarbonising.
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Indian Leader
This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.
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Charles W. Chesnutt
American Novelist
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
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Regina Brett
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Going through chemo is like investing money in a retirement account. You feel the hit right now, but later in life you get to reap the benefits - by still being alive.
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James Allen
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The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
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Charlamagne tha God
American Entertainer
That's what people don't understand: whatever you do in life, you have to be consistent at it because that's when you'll reap the rewards from it.
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Michael Imperioli
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In this world, there really is a law of cause and effect: You reap what you sow. Then energy you put out really does come back to you.
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Charles Reade
English Novelist
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Artist
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
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Allen Iverson
American Athlete
My friend... used to tease me about a tattoo I had right here, but it was so big, and what he was teasing me about - he said it looked like a flying monkey. It's supposed to have been a grim reaper holding a ball. But it did look like a monkey.
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Clive Lewis
We were the first country in the world to carbonise our economy and to reap the huge economic rewards that followed and it is right that we now invest some of that wealth in fully decarbonising.
Quote examples
Paramahansa Yogananda
Indian Leader
This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.
Quote examples
Charles W. Chesnutt
American Novelist
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
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Regina Brett
American Journalist
Going through chemo is like investing money in a retirement account. You feel the hit right now, but later in life you get to reap the benefits - by still being alive.
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James Allen
British Author
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
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Charlamagne tha God
American Entertainer
That's what people don't understand: whatever you do in life, you have to be consistent at it because that's when you'll reap the rewards from it.
Quote examples
Michael Imperioli
American Actor
In this world, there really is a law of cause and effect: You reap what you sow. Then energy you put out really does come back to you.
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Charles Reade
English Novelist
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Artist
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
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