crop
the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop.
the yield of such produce for a particular season.
the yield of some other product in a season: the crop of diamonds.
a supply produced.
a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together: this year's crop of students.
the stock or handle of a whip.
Also called riding crop. a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash.
Also called craw. Zoology.
a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings.
a chamber or pouch in the foregut of arthropods and annelids for holding and partly crushing food.
the act of cropping.
a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle.
a close-cropped hairstyle.
a head of hair so cut.
an entire tanned hide of an animal.
Mining. an outcrop of a vein or seam.
to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.).
to cut off the ends or a part of: to crop the ears of a dog.
to cut short: cropped t-shirts.
to clip the ears, hair, etc., of.
Photography. to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative).
to cause to bear a crop or crops.
to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.): The sheep cropped the lawn.
to bear or yield a crop or crops.
to feed by cropping or grazing.
(of women’s casual garments) shorter than is usual: a crop top that bares your midriff;crop pants that end at mid-calf.
crop out,
Geology, Mining. to rise to the surface of the ground: Veins of quartz crop out in the canyon walls.
to become evident or visible; occur: A few cases of smallpox still crop out every now and then.
crop up, to appear, especially suddenly or unexpectedly: A new problem cropped up.
Origin of crop
1synonym study For crop
Other words from crop
- crop·less, adjective
- non·crop, adjective
- un·cropped, adjective
- well-cropped, adjective
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How to use crop in a sentence
These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.
How Good Dads Can Change the World | Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTFor the uninitiated, the film is set on a future Earth whose crops (save corn) have been wiped out by a mysterious blight.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Breaks Down ‘Interstellar’: Black Holes, Time Dilations, and Massive Waves | Marlow Stern | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWalmart has gone even further, agreeing to extend this agreement to other crops in its supply chain.
They threw off their bags of crops and strapped him to the back.
A Belgian Prince, Gorillas, Guerrillas & the Future of the Congo | Nina Strochlic | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo make tradition-bound farmers realize the larger economic benefits of such crops, Carver began to look for other uses.
The small grain crops had been burned to a crisp, and disaster hung over the land.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxRye is now being harvested, and is quite heavy: in fact, all the crops promise abundant harvests.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyBut the growing crops are too cleanly and carefully weeded and too uniformly good to protract the illusion.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleySome in our valley think his heavy crops come from his six days of labor, and some from his one day of preaching.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydSome vegos are celebrated for their good crops, while others, perhaps not a hundred yards away, do not produce good crops at all.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.
British Dictionary definitions for crop
/ (krɒp) /
the produce of cultivated plants, esp cereals, vegetables, and fruit
the amount of such produce in any particular season
the yield of some other farm produce: the lamb crop
a group of products, thoughts, people, etc, appearing at one time or in one season: a crop of new publications
the stock of a thonged whip
short for riding crop
a pouchlike expanded part of the oesophagus of birds, in which food is stored or partially digested before passing on to the gizzard
a similar structure in insects, earthworms, and other invertebrates
the entire tanned hide of an animal
a short cropped hairstyle: See also Eton crop
a notch in or a piece cut out of the ear of an animal
the act of cropping
to cut (hair, grass, etc) very short
to cut and collect (mature produce) from the land or plant on which it has been grown
to clip part of (the ear or ears) of (an animal), esp as a means of identification
(also intr) to cause (land) to bear or (of land) to bear or yield a crop: the land cropped well
(of herbivorous animals) to graze on (grass or similar vegetation)
photog to cut off or mask unwanted edges or areas of (a negative or print)
Origin of crop
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with crop
In addition to the idioms beginning with crop
- crop out
- crop up
also see:
- cream of the crop
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