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crop

noun
/kɹɒp/UK/kɹɑp/US

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.

  1. inherited from *grewb-✻
  2. inherited from *kruppaz✻
  3. inherited from *kropp✻
  4. inherited from cropp
  5. inherited from crop

Definitions

  1. A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder,…

    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.

    • 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?

  2. The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of…

    The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.

    • It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!

  3. A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.

    • 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?
  4. ›+ 21 more definitions

    1. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.

      • The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.

    2. The lashing end of a whip.

    3. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.

    4. A rocky outcrop.

    5. The act of cropping.

    6. A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.

    7. A short haircut.

      • 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.

    8. A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to…

      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 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.

    9. The foliate part of a finial.

    10. The head of a flower, especially when picked

      The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

    11. Tin ore prepared for smelting.

    12. An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

    13. An entire oxhide.

    14. Marijuana.

      • Cops, come and try to snatch my crops / These pigs wanna blow my house down

    15. To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

      • I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.

    16. To mow, reap or gather.

    17. To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.

      • And the knave who refuses to drink till he fall, / Why the hangman shall crop him — ears, love-locks, and all.

    18. To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the…

      To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.

      • 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.

    19. To yield harvest.

    20. To cause to bear a crop.

      • to crop a field

    21. To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.

      • She cropped the horse into a comfortable canter and enjoyed the familiar rhythm and bounce of the horse's stride.

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Derived

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 · +32 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at crop. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at crop. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at crop

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA