Complete Definition of "crop"

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English

Etymology
OE. cropp �head or top of a sprout or herb�.

Pronunciation
(RP): AHD|kr�p, IPA|/kr�p/, SAMPA|/krQp/
(US): AHD|kräp, IPA|/kr�p/, SAMPA|/krAp/

Noun
en-noun

  1. A plant, especially a cereal, grown for food.
  2. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
  3. A group, cluster or collection of things occuring at the same time.

#: a crop of idea

  1. The lashing end of a whip
  2. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
  3. A rocky outcrop.
  4. The act of #Verb|cropping.
  5. A short haircut.
  6. archaic|or|dialect The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
  7. anatomy A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion, or for regurgitation; a craw.

#:* 1892: The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop. � Arthur Conan Doyle, �The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle� (Norton 2005 p.221)

  1. architecture the foliate part of a finial.

Synonyms
(harvest): harvest, yield
(whip used on horses): hunting crop, riding crop, whip, bat
(animal's): craw (in birds)

Translations
trans-top|plant grown for food
Danish: afgrøde c
Dutch: gewas n, voedselgewas n, voedselplant m
Esperanto: rikoltaĵo
trans-mid
Finnish: sato
Russian: (�ел��ко�оз�й��венн�й|�ел��ко�оз�й��венна�) к�л����а ((sel�sko�ozjájstvennaja) kul�túra) f
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trans-top|harvest
Dutch: oogst m, opbrengst m
Esperanto: rikoltaĵo
Finnish: sadonkorjuu
French: récolte f
trans-mid
Hebrew: he-translation|����|yevúl m
Italian: raccolto m
Portuguese: colheita f
Russian: ��ожай (urožáj) m
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trans-top|whip
Dutch: rijzweepje n
Finnish: ratsupiiska
French: cravache m
trans-mid
German: Gerte f
Portuguese: açoite m, chibata f
Spanish: fusta f
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trans-top|rocky outcrop
trans-mid
Russian: обнажение (obnažénije) n, в��од на пове��но��� (vý�od na povér�nost�) m
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trans-top|short haircut
Dutch: bros m
trans-mid
Spanish: rapado m
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trans-top|part of animal�s alimentary tract
Dutch: kroep
Esperanto: krupo
Finnish: kupu
trans-mid
French: jabot m
Korean: ��구� (meolTteoguni)
Russian: зоб (zob) m
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Verb
en-verb|crop|p|ed

  1. transitive To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
  2. transitive To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
  3. transitive To remove the outer parts of a photography or image in order to frame the subject better.

Translations
trans-top|remove top part
trans-mid
Russian: об�еза�� (obrezát�, branches), ��еза�� (srezát�, flowers)
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trans-top|to cut (hair/tail/ears) short
Dutch: brosknippen
Finnish: leikata, typistää
trans-mid
Russian: (ко�о�ко) под���ига�� ((kórotko) podstrigát�, hair); об�еза�� (obrezát�, ears), к�пи�ова�� (kupírovat�, ears)
Spanish: rapar
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trans-top|remove outer parts of (a photograph or image)
Dutch: bijknippen, bijsnijden
Finnish: rajata
trans-mid
Russian: об�еза�� (obrezát�)
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Derived terms
outcrop
crop up

See also
w:crop_(anatomy)|Wikipedia article on the crop of an animal
w:crop_(implement)|Wikipedia article on riding crops
w:cropping_(image)|Wikipedia article on cropping images

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