A crop is a large amount of one kind of fruit or vegetable that's grown on a farm. Your farmer uncle's corn crop might be especially large after a summer with plenty of rain.
The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
Noun
a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
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
the yield from plants in a single growing season
Verb
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
Verb
cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short"
Verb
feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"
Verb
let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
Verb
yield crops; "This land crops well"
Verb
prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
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.
Crop
Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil.4.
Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee.6.
Crop
I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.2.
Death . . . .crops the growing boys. Creech. 3.To cause to bear a crop; as, to .crop a fieldCrop
Crop , v. i.To yield harvest. Beaconsfield. 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. "Cares crop up in villas." The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
To yield harvest.
Usage Examples
You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?
I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
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Other Usage ExamplesThere are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.
Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.
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