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Word: reap
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
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Verb:
- (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
- (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.
- obsolete To deprive of the beard; to shave.
- To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
- 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.
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