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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.
EXPANDa 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.
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.
COLLAPSEMining. 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.
EXPANDPhotography. to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative).
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Crops
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verb (used without object)
Verb phrases22.
to bear or yield a crop or crops.
23.
to feed by cropping or grazing.
24.
crop out,
a.
Geology, Mining. to rise to the surface of the ground: Veins of quartz crop out in the canyon walls.
b.
to become evident or visible; occur: A few cases of smallpox still crop out every now and then.
25.
crop up, to appear, especially suddenly or unexpectedly: A new problem cropped up.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English, Old English: sprout, ear of corn, paunch, crown of a tree; cognate with German Kropf; see croup2
before 900; Middle English, Old English: sprout, ear of corn, paunch, crown of a tree; cognate with German Kropf; see croup2
Related forms
crop·less, adjective
non·crop, adjective
un·cropped, adjective
well-cropped, 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 especially 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 especially 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
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" (early 13c.). The general meaning of "to cut off" is early 15c.
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