Crop
[krɒp] or [krɑp]
Definition
(noun.) the stock or handle of a whip.
(noun.) the output of something in a season; 'the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores'.
(noun.) a collection of people or things appearing together; 'the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas'.
(noun.) a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale.
(noun.) the yield from plants in a single growing season.
(verb.) cut short; 'She wanted her hair cropped short'.
(verb.) feed as in a meadow or pasture; 'the herd was grazing'.
(verb.) yield crops; 'This land crops well'.
(verb.) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow.
Checked by Lionel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
(n.) The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.
(n.) That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.
(n.) Grain or other product of the field while standing.
(n.) Anything cut off or gathered.
(n.) Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
(n.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.
(n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
(n.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
(n.) A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
(v. t.) To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
(v. t.) Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
(v. t.) To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
(v. i.) To yield harvest.
Checker: Patty
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Harvest.[2]. Craw, first stomach (of a bird).
v. a. [1]. Lop, clip, cut off.[2]. Gather, pluck, pick.[3]. Browse, nibble, feed upon.
Typist: Patricia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN: reap, reduce, shave, shorten, curtail
ANT:Elongate, grow, foster, raise, trail, train
SYN:Reaping, harvest, ingathering
ANT:Produce, yield, abundance, growth, fruit
Edited by Elise
Definition
n. all the produce of a field of grain: anything gathered or cropped: an entire ox-hide: the craw of a bird: (archit.) a finial: a whip-handle: the cutting the hair short.—v.t. to cut off the top or ends: to cut short or close: to mow reap or gather.—v.i. to yield:—pr.p. crop′ping; pa.p. cropped.—n. Crop′-ear one having cropped or cut ears.—adj. Crop′ful (Milt.) satiated.—ns. Crop′per one who or that which crops: a plant which furnishes a crop: one who raises a crop for a share of it: a kind of fancy pigeon remarkable for its large crop; Crop′ping act of cutting off: the raising of crops: (geol.) an outcrop; Crop′py one of the Irish rebels of 1798 who cut their hair short in imitation of the French Revolutionists.—adj. Crop′-sick sick of a surfeit.—Crop out to appear above the surface; Crop up to come up incidentally.
Typist: Remington
Examples
- Mrs Boffin has carried the day, and we're going in neck and crop for Fashion. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If your crop comes shorter into market than any of theirs, you won't lose your bet, I suppose? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There, within easy reach of the rubber trees, they set up their camp and the actual work of harvesting the rubber crop begins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I'd ha' liked to plump down aboard of him, neck and crop, with a heavy jump, and sunk him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The seasons most unfavourable to the crop are those of excessive drought or excessive rain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Blossom what would, its bricks and bars bore uniformly the same dead crop. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The crop we are going to raise is a profitable one, and Jo laughed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The following April he went back to Georgia, where he found unusually large crops of cotton had been planted, in expectation of using the gin. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It is, if you please, like the crops of a rude and forbidding soil--a coarse, distorted thing though living. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yet it 'crops up'--as our slang goes--my lords and gentlemen and honourable boards, in other fellow-creatures, rather frequently! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The fertilizer manufacturers mix the cyanamid with other ingredients to make a balanced plant food and so ship it to farmers for feeding their crops. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And I don't believe in any pay to make amends for bringing a lot of ruffians to trample your crops. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He saw the girl's cropped head disappear with a jerk under the robe and then he saw the horseman coming through the trees. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But will I not be so ugly there with this cropped head that thou wilt be ashamed of me? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Look well after the cropped head, wilt thou? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- My close-cropped black hair and thern complexion were the subjects of much comment. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- She moved her head under his hand and smiled up at him and he felt the thick but silky roughness of the cropped head rippling between his fingers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He looked back and saw her standing there, the first morning sunlight on her brown face and the cropped, tawny, burned-gold hair. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Make thy good-bys with thy cropped head and go. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You don't want these little questions cropping up again. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Editor: Margaret