crop

[ krop ]

/ krɒp /

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noun

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.

verb (used with object), cropped or (Archaic) cropt; crop·ping.

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.

verb (used without object), cropped or (Archaic) cropt; crop·ping.

to bear or yield a crop or crops.

to feed by cropping or grazing.

adjective

(of women’s casual garments) shorter than is usual: a crop top that bares your midriff; crop pants that end at mid-calf.

Verb Phrases

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.

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Origin of crop

First recorded before 900; Middle English, Old English crop, cropp “sprout, ear of wheat (or other grain), paunch, crown of a tree”; cognate with German Kropf; see croup²

synonym study for crop

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.

OTHER WORDS FROM crop

cropless, adjectivenon·crop, adjectiveun·cropped, adjectivewell-cropped, adjective

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How to use crop in a sentence

Urine contains the nutrients nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium—a trio known in agriculture as NPK—in soluble forms that plants can take up, similar to synthetic fertilizers widely used in crop production.
Your pee could be the golden ticket to a greener world|Ula Chrobak|November 19, 2020|Popular-Science
The heat has also brought storms of locusts, migratory pests that are infamous for destroying crops.
Asia’s biggest climate migration|Konstantin Kakaes|November 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
For example, an AI trained to spot signs of disease in high-quality medical images will struggle with blurry or cropped images captured by a cheap camera in a busy clinic.
The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed|Will Heaven|November 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
The honeybees that serve as the hornets’ prey are crucial to pollinating crops, Spichiger said.
A nest filled with hundreds of ‘murder hornets’ was destroyed ‘just in the nick of time,’ officials say|Teo Armus|November 12, 2020|Washington Post

Some are expecting errors to crop up and padding in extra time to deal with them.
‘This is the norm not the exception’: Why media buyers need to prepare for issues with Facebook’s Ads Manager|Kristina Monllos|November 9, 2020|Digiday
And Paris is far from alone, the word “Brooklyn” is cropping up all over the world.
How Brooklyn Invaded Paris—Next Stop, the World|Brandon Presser|October 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Their family even went to the length of photoshopping Allen out of photographs, and cropping footage of him from family videos.
What You Should Know About Woody Allen's Feud With Mia and Ronan Farrow|Marina Watts|January 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The site once went to great lengths to ignore Kardashian entirely, even cropping her out from a Met Gala best-dressed slideshow.
Kim Kardashian Finally Gets Noticed By Vogue; Rick Owens's Eurovision Performance|The Fashion Beast Team|June 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
To help them on their way, new blogs, designers, and boutiques promoting Orthodox Jewish style have also been cropping up.
Is Suri Cruise Launching a Fashion Line?; Keith Richards' Saint Laurent Tour Wardrobe Up For Sale|The Fashion Beast Team|May 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
So third-party companies like HealthyWage are cropping up to help groups win cash for weight loss.
Workers Earn Money on the Job for Losing Weight|Eliza Shapiro|April 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Certain evidence cropping up, the charge is transferred to the J.-C.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25)|Robert Louis Stevenson
New, strange conceptions, wholly foreign to my temperament, are forever cropping up in my head.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4)|Various
From where they sat at the mouth of the cavern they saw all three of their ponies cropping the succulent grass.
Two Boys in Wyoming|Edward S. Ellis
Perhaps a half-mile away six or eight antelope were cropping the grass, unconscious of the approach of danger.
Two Boys in Wyoming|Edward S. Ellis
I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which his own finer stratum was laid.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII|John Lord

British Dictionary definitions for crop

crop

/ (krɒp) /

noun

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 producethe lamb crop

a group of products, thoughts, people, etc, appearing at one time or in one seasona 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 hairstyleSee also Eton crop

a notch in or a piece cut out of the ear of an animal

the act of cropping

verb crops, cropping or cropped (mainly tr)

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 cropthe 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)

Word Origin for crop

Old English cropp; related to Old Norse kroppr rump, body, Old High German kropf goitre, Norwegian kröypa to bend

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Other Idioms and Phrases with crop

crop

In addition to the idioms beginning with crop

crop out
crop up

also see:

cream of the crop

crop

Origin of crop

synonym study for crop

OTHER WORDS FROM crop

Words related to crop

How to use crop in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for crop

Word Origin for crop

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