harvested

Everyday

1. (literal) gathered crops such as wheat, apples or potatoes when they are ripe. tree →
2. (euphemism, hunting, US) killed by hunters: «deer were harvested». tree →
3. (euphemism, industry) cut down (trees) or caught (fish). tree →
4. collected: «harvested data», «harvested rainwater»; (medicine) organs or cells taken from a donor. tree →

In the lessons

Farming is the main and literal sense; hunters, fishers and loggers use «harvest» to make killing or cutting sound like gathering crops (official, US jargon). Used in science lessons for rain, energy and data collection.

Examples

• The farmers harvested the wheat in late summer. tree →
• Over two hundred deer were harvested in the county this season. tree →
• The forest was harvested for timber. tree →
• Our class harvested the potatoes we planted in spring. tree →
• Fishermen harvested tonnes of cod. tree →
• The app harvested users' data without asking. tree →
• We harvested rainwater in a barrel for the garden. tree →
• If each tree gives 30 apples and we harvested 12 trees, we harvested 360 apples. tree →
• "If this wheat is not harvested at once," said the Farmer, "we shall lose half the crop. tree →

Note

Trap: about animals it means killed, said in a softer way. About data it may mean collected without permission. In maths problems, «harvested» means collected: count the total.