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crop
[krop]
noun, verb, cropped or (Archaic
) cropt; crop⋅ping.–noun
| 1. | the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop. |
| 2. | the yield of such produce for a particular season. |
| 3. | the yield of some other product in a season: the crop of diamonds. |
| 4. | a supply produced. |
| 5. | a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together: this year's crop of students. |
| 6. | the stock or handle of a whip. |
| 7. | Also called riding crop. a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash. |
| 8. | Also called craw. Zoology.
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| 9. | the act of cropping. |
| 10. | a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle. |
| 11. | a close-cropped hair style. |
| 12. | a head of hair so cut. |
| 13. | an entire tanned hide of an animal. |
| 14. | Mining. an outcrop of a vein or seam. |
–verb (used with object)
| 15. | to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.). |
| 16. | to cut off the ends or a part of: to crop the ears of a dog. |
| 17. | to cut short. |
| 18. | to clip the ears, hair, etc., of. |
| 19. | Photography. to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative). |
| 20. | to cause to bear a crop or crops. |
| 21. | to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.): The sheep cropped the lawn. |
–verb (used without object)
—Verb phrases| 22. | to bear or yield a crop or crops. |
| 23. | to feed by cropping or grazing. |
| 24. | crop out,
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| 25. | crop up, to appear, esp. suddenly or unexpectedly: A new problem cropped up. |
Related forms:
cropless, adjective
Synonyms:
1. Crop, harvest, produce, yield refer to the return in food obtained from land at the end of a season of growth. Crop, the term common in agricultural and commercial use, denotes the amount produced at one cutting or for one particular season: the potato crop. Harvest denotes either the time of reaping and gathering, or the gathering, or that which is gathered: the season of harvest; to work in a harvest; a ripe harvest. Produce esp. denotes household vegetables: Produce from the fields and gardens was taken to market. Yield emphasizes what is given by the land in return for expenditure of time and labor: There was a heavy yield of grain this year.
1. Crop, harvest, produce, yield refer to the return in food obtained from land at the end of a season of growth. Crop, the term common in agricultural and commercial use, denotes the amount produced at one cutting or for one particular season: the potato crop. Harvest denotes either the time of reaping and gathering, or the gathering, or that which is gathered: the season of harvest; to work in a harvest; a ripe harvest. Produce esp. denotes household vegetables: Produce from the fields and gardens was taken to market. Yield emphasizes what is given by the land in return for expenditure of time and labor: There was a heavy yield of grain this year.
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Crop
Crop\ (kr?p), n. [OE. crop, croppe, craw, top of a plant, harvest, AS. crop, cropp, craw, top, bunch, ear of corn; akin to D. krop craw, G. kropf, Icel. kroppr hump or bunch on the body, body; but cf. also W. cropa, croppa, crop or craw of a bird, Ir. & Gael. sgroban. Cf. Croup, Crupper, Croup.]1. The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw. 2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. [Obs.] "Crop and root." --Chaucer. 3. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest. Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil. --Milton. 4. Grain or other product of the field while standing. 5. Anything cut off or gathered. Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee. --Dryden. 6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop. 7. (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. [Obs.] 8. (Mining.) (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting. (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. --Knight. 9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]Crop
Crop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cropped (kr?pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cropping.]1. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap. I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. --Ezek. xvii. 22. 2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. Death . . . .crops the growing boys. --Creech. 3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.Crop
Crop\, v. i. To yield harvest. To crop out. (a) (Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. (b) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out. To crop up, to sprout; to spring up. "Cares crop up in villas." --Beaconsfield.
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Language Translation for : crop
Spanish:
cultivo; cosecha,
German:
die Ernte, die Feldfrucht,
Japanese:
作物
crop
O.E. cropp "bird's craw," also "head or top of a sprout or herb." Meaning of "harvest product" is c.1300, probably through verb meaning "cut off the top of a plant" (c.1213). The general meaning of "to cut off" is c.1420.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: crop
Pronunciation: 'kräp
Function: noun
: a pouched enlargement of the gullet of many birds that serves as a receptacle for food and forits preliminary maceration
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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crop
In addition to the idioms beginning with crop, also see cream of the crop.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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