| Main Entry: | glean |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pick out, collect |
Synonyms: |
accumulate, amass, ascertain, conclude, cull, deduce, extract, garner, gather, harvest, learn, pick, reap, select, sift, winnow |
| Main Entry: | choose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pick, select |
Synonyms: |
accept, adopt, appoint, call for, cast, co-opt, commit oneself, crave, cull, decide on, designate, desire, determine, discriminate between, draw lots, elect, embrace, espouse, excerpt, extract, fancy, favor, feel disposed to, finger, fix on, glean, judge, love, make choice, make decision, make up one's mind, name, opt for, predestine, prefer, see fit, separate, set aside, settle upon, sift out, single out, slot, sort, tab, tag, take, take up, tap, want, weigh, will, winnow, wish, wish for |
| Notes: | choose means to pick out or select from a number of alternatives, while chose is the past tense of choose |
| Main Entry: | clear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | profit |
Synonyms: |
accumulate, acquire, clean up, earn, gain, gather, get, glean, make, net, obtain, pick up, realize, reap, receive, secure, win |
| Main Entry: | compile |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, accumulate |
Synonyms: |
abridge, amass, anthologize, arrange, assemble, bring together, collate, collect, colligate, collocate, compose, concentrate, congregate, consolidate, cull, draw together, edit, garner, gather, get together, glean, group, heap up, marshal, muster, organize, put together, recapitulate, unite |
Antonyms: |
disassemble, disperse, scatter, separate |
| Main Entry: | conjecture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speculate |
Synonyms: |
assume, believe, conceive, conclude, deem, estimate, expect, fancy, feel*, figure, gather, glean, guess, guesstimate, hazard a guess, hypothesize, imagine, infer, judge, presume, pretend, suppose, surmise, suspect, take a shot, take a stab, take for granted, theorize, think |
Antonyms: |
prove |
| Main Entry: | cull |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pick out for reason |
Synonyms: |
choose, discriminate, elect, extract, glean, mark, opt for, optate, pluck, prefer, select, sift, single out, take, thin, thin out, winnow |
| Main Entry: | cull |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather |
Synonyms: |
accumulate, amass, collect, extract, garner, glean, pick up, round up |
| Main Entry: | deduce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | figure out, understand |
Synonyms: |
add up, analyze, assume, be afraid, boil down, cogitate, collect, conceive, conclude, consider, deduct, deem, derive, draw, fancy, figure, gather, glean, have a hunch, imagine, infer, judge, make, make out, presume, presuppose, ratiocinate, read into, reason, regard, surmise, take to mean |
| Main Entry: | derive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deduce a conclusion |
Synonyms: |
acquire, arrive, assume, collect, determine, develop, draw, educe, elaborate, elicit, evolve, excogitate, extract, follow, formulate, gain, gather, get, glean, infer, judge, make, make out, obtain, procure, put together, reach, receive, trace, work out |
Antonyms: |
create, invent |
| Main Entry: | excerpt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take a part from a whole |
Synonyms: |
choose, cite, cull, extract, glean, note, pick, pick out, quote, select, single out |
Antonyms: |
insert |
