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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
garner
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attention
▪ Had he seen a challenge to the controversial habeas corpus situation as a means to garner attention?
percent
▪ And they would have to garner at least 3 percent of the parliamentary vote to receive state funding.
▪ Perot garnered 19 percent of the popular vote in the three-way race in 1992&038;.
▪ Perot garnered 19 percent of the popular vote in 1992 but did not win any electoral votes.
▪ George Bush garnered 33. 9 percent of the vote that year and Ross Perot 21. 7 percent.
▪ Non-work related ailments garner only 50 percent of a salary.
▪ Yocum garnered 56. 3 percent of the vote Tuesday, and is expected to be sworn into office June 27.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But all the information garnered was kept.
▪ In book form, Unto this Last garnered a huge audience.
▪ Nevertheless, there is some inspiration to be garnered from this book.
▪ The recording has also garnered plenty of juicy reviews.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Garner

Garner \Gar"ner\, n. [OE. garner, gerner, greiner, OF. gernier, grenier, F. grenier, fr. L. granarium, fr. granum. See 1st Grain, and cf. Granary.] A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

Garner

Garner \Gar"ner\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garnered; p. pr. & vb. n. Garnering.] To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
garner

late 15c., "to store grain," from garner (n.). Related: Garnered; garnering.

garner

"a granary," late 12c., gerner, from Old French gernier, metathesized variant of grenier "storehouse, loft for grain," from Latin granarium (usually plural, granaria) "a store-house" (see granary).

Wiktionary
garner

n. 1 A granary; a store of grain. 2 An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something. vb. 1 To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary. 2 To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain. 3 (context often figurative English) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to reap. 4 (context rare intransitive English) to gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

WordNet
garner
  1. n. a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed [syn: granary]

  2. v. acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions [syn: earn]

  3. store grain

  4. assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" [syn: gather, collect, pull together] [ant: spread]

Gazetteer
Garner, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 284
Housing Units (2000): 113
Land area (2000): 0.648063 sq. miles (1.678476 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.049762 sq. miles (0.128884 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.697825 sq. miles (1.807360 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25900
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.141201 N, 91.785220 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72052
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Garner, AR
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Garner, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 17757
Housing Units (2000): 7252
Land area (2000): 12.820407 sq. miles (33.204699 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.757034 sq. miles (1.960710 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 13.577441 sq. miles (35.165409 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25480
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.698243 N, 78.622865 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27529
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Headwords:
Garner, NC
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Garner, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 2922
Housing Units (2000): 1252
Land area (2000): 2.089135 sq. miles (5.410834 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.089135 sq. miles (5.410834 sq. km)
FIPS code: 29955
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.098189 N, 93.604028 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50438
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Garner, IA
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Usage examples of "garner".

About the year 1611-12 we find him charged with a mission to the Provincial at Asuncion to disabuse him of a report which had been carried there that the Jesuits of Guayra were garnering in no fruit from all their labours in the wilds.

Most were also weapon masters to protect the cards and wealth they garnered.

Petitions circulated to ban the breed countywide had failed to garner enough signatures.

Lily as to the real delights to be garnered by submitting to the hot kisses of the rod and then to undergo an invitation into the Cytherean mysteries whereby another kind of rod, in its way more demanding and burning still, would bring her sensual core to the crux of physical pleasure .

It had seemed to the duke that that affair between his friend and Miss Dunstable was hanging fire, and, therefore, it would be well that Chaldicotes should be swept up and garnered.

Garner and Alvarez had never met, except for brief nods of recognition at phycological conferences and society meetings.

Ratchip had forwarded a handful of semiliterate messages from delirious garners, praising Skullpulper in what passed for gushing flattery.

Like McKiernan and Abizaid, Garner was short of personnel for the tasks he was assigned and counted on using the Iraqi army.

Junko tinkered with the new computer long into the evening while Garner continued his experiments using the Ulva culture and the Thiobacillus collected by Medusa.

Garner heard Dunlop yell at Tibbits, whose reply was lost below the scream of the engines.

She shivered and without separating their faces hitched her body up into his lap, whereupon she garnered his manhood and inserted her other tongues, again almost unnoticeably.

Over the next several hours, as the samples were processed and identified, Garner gradually developed a catalog of plankton species and a rough map of population densities for several of the main zooplankton groups.

But watch him as he goes from his garner to the grove where the acorns are, or to the field where his winter corn is ripening.

Saddam has recognized that the worse the violence between Arabs and Israelis, the more isolated the United States is in the Arab world and the more popular support he garners.

Peach-colored walls brightened the room, while fresh flower blossoms, no doubt garnered from some well-lit subterranean garden, floated in a porcelain dish upon the bedstand, which looked hand-carved from rich brown teak.