crop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
anatomy
architecture
business
lifestyle
medicine
mining
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Faroese and Icelandic kroppur (“body”). Related to crap. Doublet of group and croup.
Inflected forms:
form: crops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cropping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cropped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cropped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
pos: noun
examples: The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?
gloss: The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
pos: noun
examples: It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!
gloss: A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.
The university had an exceptional crop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes.
And even if Anna Wintour wanted to invite a fresh crop of internet talent, who would she choose? Can you name anyone in the past year who has ascended in a major way?
gloss: A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
pos: noun
examples: The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
gloss: The lashing end of a whip.
pos: noun
gloss: An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
pos: noun
gloss: A rocky outcrop.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of cropping.
pos: noun
gloss: A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
pos: noun
examples: This indicates to the engraver that the subject may be cropped to yield the size desired, but it is advisable that the position for the crop also be determined and marked, else some essential feature of the copy may be cut off by arbitrary cropping to get the required size.
gloss: A short haircut.
pos: noun
examples: She went from a ponytail to a crop.
Eton crop
From an inner pocket he produces a costly Ramillies Wig, shakes it out in a brisk Cloud of scented Litharge, and claps it on, with a minimum of fuss, over his ascetic’s Crop.
gloss: A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
pos: noun
examples: A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;
Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;
That day she had done her very best,
And had filled every one of their little crops.
The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.
As the wildebeest shrinks, the circle of sated birds lounging in the short grass expands. With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut.
gloss: The foliate part of a finial.
pos: noun
gloss: The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
dialectal
gloss: Tin ore prepared for smelting.
pos: noun
gloss: An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
pos: noun
gloss: An entire oxhide.
pos: noun
gloss: Marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
examples: Cops, come and try to snatch my crops / These pigs wanna blow my house down
gloss: To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
gloss: To mow, reap or gather.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And the knave who refuses to drink till he fall, / Why the hangman shall crop him — ears, love-locks, and all.
gloss: To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Reduce to six inches wide and crop to eight inches high.
You'll see that when you enlarge a subject to many times its normal size, and then crop the photo so there is nothing in proportion to be recognized, all resemblance to the original can be hidden.
Crop the photo for emphasis and composition.
gloss: To yield harvest.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause to bear a crop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to crop a field
gloss: To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She cropped the horse into a comfortable canter and enjoyed the familiar rhythm and bounce of the horse's stride.
Derived words: aftercrop
alley crop
anticrop
bumper crop
cash crop
catch crop
cover crop
cream of the crop
cream the crop
cropbound
crop circle
crop-dust
cropduster
crop-dusting
crop dusting
cropful
cropfull
cropland
croplands
cropless
croplike
cropmark
crop mark
crop milk
cropper
croppie
croppy
cropraising
crop rotation
cropsick
crop top
Eton crop
fallow crop
food crop
fruitcrop
greencrop
green crop
hunting-crop
hunting crop
intercrop
killcrop
maincrop
money crop
monocrop
neck and crop
noncrop
Norfolk crop rotation
oilcrop
pick of the crop
profit crop
riding crop
sharecrop
sharecropper
single-crop
smother crop
specialty crop
standing crop
stonecrop
subsistence crop
sunset crop
trap crop
truck crop
white crop
crop-ear
outcrop
crop out
croppable
crop up
miscrop
overcrop
recrop
uncrop
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: кастря
roman: kastrja
lang: Catalan
word: retallar
lang: Finnish
word: leikata
lang: Galician
word: espuntar
lang: Galician
word: esbicar
lang: German
word: köpfen
lang: German
word: enthaupten
lang: German
word: kürzen
lang: Italian
word: tagliare
lang: Italian
word: ritagliare
lang: Italian
word: ridimensionare
lang: Italian
word: rimuovere
lang: Middle English
word: croppen
lang: Portuguese
word: podar
lang: Romanian
word: recolta
lang: Romanian
word: culege
lang: Romanian
word: cultiva
lang: Russian
word: обреза́ть
roman: obrezátʹ
lang: Russian
word: среза́ть
roman: srezátʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: buain
lang: Swedish
word: beskära