CROP • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Crop

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/krɑp/ Listen

noun

Crop n.

1.

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

2.

The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. (Obs.) "Crop and root."

3.

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. "Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil."

4.

Grain or other product of the field while standing.

5.

Anything cut off or gathered. "Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee."

6.

Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.

7.

(Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. (Obs.)

8.

(Mining.)

(a)

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

(b)

Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

9.

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.

Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. (Colloq.)

verb

Crop v. t. (past & past part. cropped; pres. part. cropping)

1.

To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap. "I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one."

2.

Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. "Death...crops the growing boys."

3.

To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.

4.

To cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders.

Crop v. i. To yield harvest.

To crop out.

(a)

(Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal.

(b)

To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out.

To crop up, to sprout; to spring up; to appear suddenly. "Cares crop up in villas."

See images of 'Crop'

Etymology of 'Crop'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Crop" Quotes from Famous Books

... remarkable peculiarity among monkeys. This latter species was met with by Mr. Bates on the Upper Amazon, and he describes the face as being of a vivid scarlet, the body clothed from neck to tail with very long, straight, and shining white hair, while the head was nearly bald, owing to the very short crop of thin gray hairs. As a finish to their striking physiognomy these monkeys have bushy whiskers of a sandy color meeting under the chin, and yellowish gray eyes. The color of the face is so vivid that it looks as if covered with a thick coat of bright scarlet paint. These creatures ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various

... conditions continue— perhaps to universal savagery. Everywhere the sins of the past have borne the same fruit, have furnished the colonies with social enigmas that mock the wisdom of legislators, a dragon-crop of problems that no modern political science has yet proved competent to deal with. Can it even be hoped that future sociologists will be able to answer them, after Nature—who never forgives—shall have exacted the utmost possible retribution ...

— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn

... desire for excellence, or with special aptitude of some sort or another.... Now, the most important object of all educational schemes is to catch these exceptional people, and turn them to account for the good of society. No man can say where they will crop up; like their opposites, the fools and the knaves, they appear sometimes in the palace, and sometimes in the hovel; but the great thing to be aimed at, I was almost going to say, the most important end of all social arrangements, ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell

... matters—some of these chaps may be famous some day (posterity is so undiscriminating) and all that savory personal stuff will have evaporated from our memories. The world of bookmen is in great need of a new crop of intimists, or whatever you call them. Barbellion chaps. Henry Ryecrofts. We need a chiel ...

— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley

... has grown a little, the ground has to be carefully weeded; this work is done by the women. When the crop is ripe, both men and women do the reaping. They walk between the rows of standing grain, and with a sharp, oddly-shaped little knife, they cut off the heads one by one, and place them in their baskets which are ...

— Children of Borneo • Edwin Herbert Gomes

Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com