Definition of crop in English:

crop

nounPlural crops krɒpkrɑp

1A cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable.
the main crops were oats and barley
Example sentencesExamples
- Plant breeders changed the crop into one grown primarily for the oil and protein in its seed.
- In addition to rice, they also grow some other edible crops and plant vegetables and fruit around the edge of their plots.
- Amongst the fruit crops grown in the country, banana ranks first in production and third in area under cultivation.
- Ploughing was his forte and he loved to sow and plant the crops, watch them grow and mature, and harvest them at the back-end.
- The women baked bread and danced and listened to music, and the guys worked out on the fields, growing vegetables and other crops.
- Right now, about three million hectares of Canadian farmland are growing crops of plants that have been genetically modified by biotechnology.
- Fruits and vegetables are expensive crops to grow.
- In late November, the same producer might then plant a flax crop to grow through March.
- Rice, wheat, maize, and millet are the main crops grown in the country.
- Farmers can use some parts of their land to grow crops and use other parts as recreation sites.
- The whole community participates in clearing land to grow crops.
- The crop is grown commercially only in those regions where the plants are forced into a rest period by cold or drought.
- These four crops accounted for 52 percent of U.S. acres planted to crops excluding fruits and vegetables in 2001.
- The animals were fed only on pasture, which was often the residue of various vegetable crops grown in the province of Naples.
- He now has no land to grow crops or raise cattle.
- Lastly rural folks need practical training in agriculture to enable them to plant vegetables and crops.
- It is these seeds that will ultimately be crushed to produce the vegetable oil that the crop is grown for.
- As rent and repayment for seeds or other supplies, the farmer pays the landowner with a portion of the crops grown on the land.
- Allowing GM crops to be grown commercially in Scotland could lead to another outbreak of direct action by environmentalists.
- A wide range of vegetable crops are grown, all of which are produced without any of the modern-day chemicals which dominate the lives of today's farmer.
1. 1.1 An amount of produce harvested at one time.
  a heavy crop of fruit
  Example sentencesExamples
  Farmers ask for government help because they cannot harvest their crops after a drought.
  The season of 1874-75 was excellent, with two crops harvested and stored.
  In some areas farmers have not harvested their crops, as there is no market for them.
  The rainy season was so heavy following the drought that it destroyed the second crop and the harvest was so poor that one man in the village hung himself.
  Three weeks from now I will be harvesting my crops.
  Potato farmer Simon Bradley took matters into his own hands when he harvested his biggest crop, but was unable to sell it all through his York outlets.
  When all the crops had been harvested and stored away, and before the men left for the fall hunt, the Harvest Festival was held.
  They have to harvest the crop with almost military precision and at a pace almost as hectic as war.
  While the GM seeds cost more than regular ones, she saves money by not having to use so much pesticide and has harvested bigger crops.
  An answer may take 3-7 months, long after the crops have been harvested and contamination has happened.
  Both men and women work in the fields and harvest the crops.
  The growers are still harvesting their crop, months later than usual.
  All of us lived together, ploughed together, and harvested the crops together.
  It gives the northern farmer more night light to harvest crops.
  Gusty winds continued to dry soils and accelerate the wheat crop toward an early harvest.
  They do use modern farming technology, however, harvesting their crops with huge combines.
  Farmers who came back to harvest the crops on their small-holdings often put their lives at risk to do so.
  He was harvesting the crops, and had gathered in his arms a large bundle of corn.
  Their action comes in the middle of the cherry picking season and has forced growers into the orchards to harvest their own crop.
  When the crop was harvested, pesticide residues were found to exceed the legal limit.
  Synonyms
  harvest, year's growth, yield, produce, vintage, gathering, reaping, gleaning, garnering
  fruits
2. 1.2 An abundance of something, especially a person's hair.
  he had a thick crop of wiry hair
  Example sentencesExamples
  He had a weird crop of facial hair, was ugly as all hell, and he talked in a way that bothered me.
  He's tall, with a healthy crop of white hair.
  Now, his dark eyes scanning his surroundings, he spots a woman with an unmistakable crop of curling red hair.
  Leaning heavily against the side of the desk, he runs a hand through his curly crop of brown hair.
  He went under the razor and sacrificed his crop of red hair to raise money for his son's special school.
  This beautiful blue-eyed wonder also has a crop of thick luxurious brown hair.
  Even his neat crop of raven hair was beginning to grey at the edges.
  It suited her boyish crop of brunette hair and wild, pale blue eyes.
  He stood straight, his head at a perfect angle revealing a pointed chin sporting a delicate crop of black hair finely trimmed at the end.
  The electric blue eyes beam between a dark crop of lush hair and a rich beard.
  His face beamed beneath a crop of unbrushed hair.
  Mr. Wright had a thick crop of medium brown hair that crowned a boyish, blue eyed face.
  And just to rub salt into the wound, I had a luxuriant crop of hair on the top of my head in those wasted years (there is a photo to prove it).
  Damon sat across from them in a brown leather chair, his green eyes nearly hidden by his thick crop of brown-black hair.
  The whiteness of his robust crop of hair could, with a slight stretch, be thought premature.
  Something about him she didn't like, his jaunty airs, the straw cowboy hat placed raggedly atop his musty brown crop of hair.
  The crop of ginger hair may be missing, but otherwise the similarities in size and style are striking.
  A heavier-than-average baby at nine pounds something with a messy crop of soot-black hair, squinty eyes and dimples in all the right places.
  She had a crop of shining blonde curls, a round face and large grey eyes.
  He had a wild crop of white hair and scary gray eyes that sended chills up Mel's spine.
  Synonyms
  mass, mane, mop, thatch, head, bush, cloud, frizz, fuzz, foam, curls, tangle, chaos, cascade, quiff, halo
3. 1.3 The total number of young farm animals born in a particular year on one farm.
  failure to observe sound practice leads to a lamb crop at weaning of around 50–60 per cent
  Example sentencesExamples
  Jennifer might talk about her award-winning goats or the new crop of kids born days before.
2A group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time.
the current crop of politicians
Example sentencesExamples
- Scotland currently have an abundant crop of up-and-coming back-rowers.
- The current crop of middle to late 20th Century ‘Period Dramas’, all re-evaluate the past through a filter of modern-day attitudes.
- Every season, first books appear by a crop of new writers worthy of ink and paper.
- The current crop of UK writers are turning out some amazing material.
- Meanwhile, come April, we'll have a new crop of stars to profile and watch.
- This easily is one of the best looking games that will appear on the current crop of console hardware.
- There is plenty to keep the avid garden visitor busy tomorrow with a plentiful crop of gardens open in the area.
- His recent European tour produced a bumper crop of such stories.
- But the current crop of tests appears to be aimed only at evaluating minimum competence.
- Seasoned councillors welcomed a crop of hopeful new politicians into their ranks.
- The challenge now, is to give the current crop of recruits more time to build a cohesive affront.
- The new crop of boats appears to be designed and built by committee, the accountants and people with no practical experience.
- It's no small task, but the current crop of candidates appears to be up to the task.
- Well, what do you think about the current crop of sitcoms?
- The president's advisors will be worried by the latest crop of polls which appear to indicate a groundswell of dissatisfaction with their man.
- As the crop of digitally animated films becomes more abundant, audiences are likely to demand increasingly more from such movies.
- Only 21, he is already the holder of four singles titles, and is widely recognised as the most naturally gifted of the current crop of youngsters in the professional game.
- The album is rather different from the current crop of pop music.
- It sends a disturbing message that the new crop of aspiring music journalists do not know about music genres and musical history that emerged before 1990.
- Along came a new crop of country singers.
Synonyms
batch, lot, assortment, selection, collection, supply, intake
3A hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short.
she has her hair cut in a short crop
Example sentencesExamples
- His hair is longer than the close crop he wears during the season.
- Our favorite crops are always about a great shape, color and, of course, terrific styling aids.
- He arched his back, then ran his short, stubby fingers through the brush of short, white crop of hair on his head.
- With their similar crops of thick black hair, large soulful eyes, and charming grins, they're difficult to tell apart.
- His hair has just been recently chopped from his younger out-of-date curtains style into a short ruffled and very sexy crop.
- His close crop is obviously low maintenance.
- In particular, I tell her, the short, blonde crop she sported was not well received.
- There are plenty of short haircuts on display but they are more about disguising thinning crops than making a political statement.
- She mimics the popular asymmetrical relaxed crop with fine layered braids.
- Her back was turned to me, so I could only see her short crop of black hair and the red mantle she wore.
- A short crop of blond hair accented the flawless skin, the blue eyes.
- An easy shape and vibrant color give this saucy crop its appeal.
- I flicked at my hair, a savage spiky crop with a bleached fringe, lightly gelled, glanced at my watch, frowned and headed for the door.
- Unconsciously she stretched a hand upwards to touch the short, pale blonde crop.
- She had her hair cut into a short crop and always wore pants or shorts.
- Emily Rose, who had a short crop of blond hair, had hers spiked up more than usual, giving her a uniquely almost warrior-esque look.
- We all had the same hairdo too, called a crop, and I'm pretty sure it came complete with a comb for your back pocket.
- Buns, twists, chignons and hair knots generally work for most hair types, textures and lengths except super short chops and crops.
- While I was eating, my mom fussed with my short crop of red hair.
Synonyms
haircut, trim, clip
4
short for riding crop or hunting crop
Example sentencesExamples
- Flipping back one of the exercise mats, he revealed a selection of whips, canes and crops.
Synonyms
whip, lash, scourge, cat, thong, switch, birch, cane, stick
riding crop, hunting crop
5A pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion.
the parent waxbill partially digests food in its crop
Example sentencesExamples
- Chickadees don't have a crop in their throats to store food that is slowly digested while sleeping.
- Grain is stored in their crops and ground by the grit in their gizzard.
Synonyms
craw, maw, gullet, throat
oesophagus, pharynx
informal, dated the red lane
archaic throttle, gorge, gula
1. 5.1 An organ resembling a pouch in an insect or earthworm.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Serotonin is a biogenic amine that modulates smooth muscle contractions of the crop and gizzard of the earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris.
  A comparison of specific organs revealed a huge difference in ethyl oleate found in the crop, an organ used for nectar storage.
6The entire tanned hide of an animal.
Synonyms
hide, pelt, fleece

verbcrops, cropped, cropping krɒpkrɑp

1with object Cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short.
she cropped her long golden hair
Example sentencesExamples
- The woman wore a white tank top and shorts, and had cropped red hair.
- She is reminded bitterly of how she cropped her long hair short.
- Her blonde hair was cropped even shorter and her aquamarine eyes were not red rimmed like Julia's.
- She was a recent divorcee with short, cropped brown hair and doe eyes.
- She had incredibly short, cropped dark hair and little curls that framed her thin face.
- He had short cropped blonde hair and friendly ice blue eyes.
- Blonde hair was cropped close to his head, and looked rather disheveled.
- White hair was cropped short and he had nice cheekbones.
- The man is described as around 5ft 10 in, in his early 20s, with very short, possibly cropped mousy hair.
- His once red hair was cropped short and his green eyes sparked with intensity.
- There stood a tall man of about 25 with blonde cropped hair, and electric blue eyes under silver framed glasses.
- She pushed back her hood and short cropped brown hair was revealed.
- He looked to be in his thirties, with short cropped dark hair and bright hazel eyes.
- He combed his fingers through his short cropped hair and opened the door.
- His hair was cropped short and made his head look square.
- Her blond hair was cropped short and framed her face.
- This woman's hair was cropped short in haphazard spikes on the top, a braid hanging over her shoulder.
- She shook her head, short cropped red hair dancing delicately in the movement.
- His hair was cropped short and his skin was dark.
- Young men have very short, closely cropped hair and also dress stylishly.
Synonyms
cut short, cut, clip, trim, snip, shear, shave
pare, prune, fleece, lop, dock, remove, detach
cut off, hack off, chop off, take off
shorten, make shorter, cut shorter, cut into a bob
barber, tonsure
1. 1.1 (of an animal) bite off and eat the tops of (plants)
  the horse was gratefully cropping the grass
  Example sentencesExamples
  The pony merely rolled an eye to look up at him and continued cropping the grass lazily.
  Several Hampshire rams had been seen sleeping and cropping the grass in the yard adjoining a well-known York church.
  He lifted his head and shook his mane in recognition and went back to contentedly cropping the grass.
  Deer cropped the springy turf beside us, so close we could hear every snuffle and chomp.
  A sound of underwater cows cropping lily-pads came from the western margin of the pond, where the rapids were.
  The abandonment of sheep farming has led to degradation in the character of the landscape as grass that was previously cropped is allowed to grow rank and wild.
  Apart from the structure of the pelvis they characteristically had an additional bone at the front of the upper jaw, the predentary, which bore no teeth but acted like a beak for cropping vegetation.
  He had finished drinking, and was now cropping the grass a small distance away.
  Sheep and cattle do not crop a pasture in neat rows.
  They are characterized by a short snout and the loss of almost all their teeth, which were replaced by a turtle-like beak used for cropping vegetation.
  It was just a prefabricated hut, with a couple of sheep cropping the grass outside.
  He shook his white mane out and set about cropping some grass from the edge of the road.
  Some distance behind him a black horse cropped the grass.
  But when I tasted them, they were extremely salty, and the leaves had obviously been cropped by a rodent.
  On the hillside below them half a dozen sheep cropped the sunlit grass and kept a wary eye.
  She looked depressed and forgotten with her head to the ground, carefully cropping each blade of grass to the same height.
  Synonyms
  graze on, browse on, feed on, nibble (at), eat
  pasture, ruminate
2. 1.2 Cut the edges of (a photograph) in order to produce a better picture or to fit a given space.
  you can always crop the picture afterwards
  Example sentencesExamples
  She took photos from magazines, enlarged them, cropped them, spliced them, and combined them with text.
  You can quickly and easily crop your picture, correct brightness and contrast levels, even get rid of red-eye.
  I cropped the photo to the size of the original.
  We can size, colour-correct and crop your images to fit space if required.
  We see that the photos are actually cropped from larger shots.
  They cropped the photograph of her friend.
  I have cropped the original photo to show only five of the sphere images.
  The photo is cropped closely so that the reader is not aware that he's looking at a picture of a male horse rather than a mare.
  Alternatively, you can use freely available software on your PC to zoom and crop your images at home.
  Add to that the good hour and a half it took me to scan and crop the photos.
  The SMH crops the picture so that this potentially distressing part of the image is not visible to their readers.
  Although you can crop a picture later using your computer, you'll get sharper results by cropping using the camera.
  Just hop on over to the Cropping Corner to learn how to crop photographs in new and unusual shapes.
  In the past, photographs were cropped to alter their meaning, mis-captioned and retouched.
  Other than cropping the photo and adjusting the levels and size, it has not been altered in any way.
  The picture had been cropped to fit the face of a figure on the other player's shoulders.
  Have I cropped the photo to eliminate extraneous detail and focus the viewer's attention?
  The photographs are cropped so low that the steps leading down to the river are divorced from the main path.
  She had already cropped this photograph to fit the rectangular print into the square format of the book.
  This way you can scale or crop the photo to fit the template.
2with object Harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area.
hay would have been cropped several times through the summer
Example sentencesExamples
- First earlies are planted between the end of March and early April and take about 100 days before cropping.
- Research has shown that both corn and soybeans produce higher yields when rotated rather than when cropped continuously.
- In Israel, vine cacti are cropped despite the absence of natural pollinators.
- It should be farmers' priority in Zambia to cut cotton stalks immediately after cropping if they are to avoid serious infestation of pests and diseases and achieve better yields.
- Nobody is going to start the laborious process of cropping a plant if it is freely available in the environment.
- Set-aside payments will not help the farmer much because the subsidy is the same as if it had been cropped, but without the actual crop to sell.
Synonyms
harvest, reap, mow
gather, collect, pick, pluck
gather in, take in, bring home
literary glean, garner, cull
1. 2.1 Sow or plant (land) with plants that will produce food or fodder, especially on a large commercial scale.
  the southern areas are cropped in cotton
  Example sentencesExamples
  Southeastern soils have been intensively cropped and are prone to drought and erosion.
  The rest has been left idle, used as grazing land, or intermittently cropped.
  Farmers should have 30 per cent of their cropped area planted with legumes each season.
  And this over here, we bought this farm not long ago, and that hadn't been cropped that area down there, for 30 years.
  At this time the cropped areas expanded significantly, as did the number of people engaged in that activity.
  In the case of crops at least 50% of the eligible area must be cropped each year - i.e. sown with a crop other than grass.
  Virtually all land is double cropped, and many farmers cultivate three or four crops a year.
  A mere 10 per cent of the land has been cropped.
  It grows in the same fertile soils that are good for farming, and it continues to be cleared for cropping as well as grazed, with hardly any in protected reserves.
  Land must be cropped in order to pay the bills.
  Cropland must meet cropping history criteria and be physically and legally capable of being cropped in a normal manner.
  Fields with heavy infestations could be cropped for a few years so tillage and herbicides could reduce infestations.
  He crops 350 hectares of some of his best and worst soils with the pasture to produce between 500 kilograms and 750 kilogram of seed a hectare.
  Trials with rhodes, panic and seteria grasses in particular have proven successful in providing year round pastures in areas unsuitable for cropping.
  Rising temperatures will make arable land available that's currently too cold for cropping.
  The Court has already imposed an interim injunction against the cleared area being cropped.
  Tillage farmers are facing crucial decisions on the amount of land they should crop under the new tillage policy.
  The lower value of these has necessitated more frequent cropping and the use of more farmland area, intensifying the effects upon the catchment.
2. 2.2no object (of land or a plant) yield a harvest of plants or produce.
  the parsley will need protection to continue cropping through the winter
  Example sentencesExamples
  If planted in April 1990, they will crop in the summer of 1990, 1991 and 1992.
  I always like to sow some broad beans in autumn to have something growing in the veg plot over winter, and they usually crop earlier than the spring-sown ones.
  Raspberries continue to crop heavily too, but there aren't that many left now.

Phrasal Verbs

crop out

(of rock) appear or be exposed at the surface of the earth.
high hills are found where the igneous rocks of eastern South Uist crop out
Example sentencesExamples
- The hinges of folded debris layers crop out on the glacier surface as flow-parallel medial moraines, with axes dipping gently up-glacier.
- At the base of the erosional hollow, an inlier of Jurassic rocks crops out below the late Cimmerian unconformity.
- Volcanic rocks that crop out in the mine area are part of the Portage Lake Volcanics and consist of thin lava flows and interbedded sedimentary rocks.
- In contrast, depositional landscapes predominate in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, where soft sedimentary rocks crop out near the southern limit of the ice sheet.
- Mafic volcanic rocks on this trend crop out on eastern King Island, with exposures including dykes, pillow lavas, volcaniclastic rocks and dolomites.
- The Mesozoic rocks crop out only in the Zhaigang and Zhainan areas in the southeastern part of the county.
- The Dzhabyk batholith crops out along the entire surface trace of the profile.
- Basement rocks crop out along the entire La Hague peninsula in a number of fault-bounded blocks and as thin layers separated by intrusive Cadomian igneous bodies.
- The Hammamat Group is a sequence of immature, clastic sedimentary rocks that crop out sporadically throughout the central and northern segments of the Eastern Desert of Egypt.
- The nature of the Lower Palaeozoic rocks which crop out in the peninsula therefore hold important evidence for the Caledonian evolution of the area.

crop up

Appear, occur, or come to one's notice unexpectedly.
some urgent business had cropped up
Example sentencesExamples
- It is not something that crops up on a day to day basis in terms of business.
- The book is also repetitive: the same old laundry list of sour complaints about the man, his works, and his cronies, crops up again and again.
- The key word here, which crops up throughout the report and the subsequent discussion, is ‘unwitting’.
- Something crops up that just absolutely has to be sorted out face to face.
- So if 01788 crops up on your phone bill and you can't recall where that is, this site will reveal it is Rugby, Warwickshire.
- One theme that crops up week after week are those who hit their 5 or 6 month anniversary.
- They monitor the radios and they are ready to go if anything unusual crops up.
- I've noticed little mistakes and typos cropping up here and there.
- If something crops up that interests me, whether it's here or overseas, then I'll look at it.
- ‘I'm not one of these people who is trying to be modern’ is a phrase that crops up repeatedly.
- Unless something unexpected crops up this year, this test looks like something a lot of us should try next year.
- When talking to locals and expats, this topic often crops up.
- He crops up a couple of times almost at random.
- All the same, Lola crops up frequently in our discussions like a slightly eccentric but beloved foreign cousin.
- Bruce Springsteen was a name that often cropped up as a reference point.
- It's a condition most commonly found in women, but occasionally crops up in a man.
- The gender issue crops up in just about every walk of life.
- These predictions crop up every decade or so and they are always wrong.
- It's a problem we've noticed before and it seems to crop up at random intervals.
- Challenge is one word that crops up in Heather's conversation a lot.
Synonyms
happen, occur, arise, arrive, turn up, spring up, pop up, surface, emerge, materialize, appear, come to light, present itself, make an appearance

Origin

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf. From Old English to the late 18th century there existed a sense 'flower head, ear of corn', giving rise to sense 1 of the noun and senses referring to the top of something, whence sense 4 of the noun.

From around ad 700 to the late 18th century crop, related to group (late 17th century), had a sense ‘flower head, ear of corn’, which gave rise to the main modern meaning ‘a cultivated plant grown on a large scale’ and also to senses referring to the top of something, such as the verb uses ‘to cut very short’ or ‘to bite off and eat the tops of plants’. The sense ‘a very short hairstyle’ goes back to the late 18th century but is particularly associated with the 1920s, when the Eton crop, reminiscent of the style then worn at the English public school Eton, was fashionable for young women.
To come a cropper is to suffer a defeat or disaster. The origin of the phrase may be the 19th-century hunting slang term ‘cropper’, meaning ‘a heavy fall’. Cropper probably came from neck and crop, an expression meaning ‘completely or thoroughly’ and originally used in the context of a horse falling to the ground. Crop here referred either to the rider's whip (originally the top part of a whip) or the horse's hindquarters. This sense is found in Old French croupe ‘rump’, which appears as croup in Middle English, and is the source of the crupper (Middle English), the bit of harness that goes from the saddle under the horse's tail, and which lies behind the word croupier (early 18th century). In early use, this was a term for a person standing behind a gambler to give advice, adopted from French, cropier ‘pillion rider, rider on the croup’.

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Rhymes

atop, bop, chop, clop, cop, dop, drop, Dunlop, estop, flop, fop, glop, hop, intercrop, knop, kop, lop, mop, op, plop, pop, prop, screw-top, shop, slop, sop, stop, strop, swap, tiptop, top, underprop, whop

Definition of crop in US English:

crop

nounkräpkrɑp

1A cultivated plant that is grown as food, especially a grain, fruit, or vegetable.
the main crops were oats and barley
Example sentencesExamples
- It is these seeds that will ultimately be crushed to produce the vegetable oil that the crop is grown for.
- In addition to rice, they also grow some other edible crops and plant vegetables and fruit around the edge of their plots.
- The animals were fed only on pasture, which was often the residue of various vegetable crops grown in the province of Naples.
- Plant breeders changed the crop into one grown primarily for the oil and protein in its seed.
- Farmers can use some parts of their land to grow crops and use other parts as recreation sites.
- Rice, wheat, maize, and millet are the main crops grown in the country.
- Amongst the fruit crops grown in the country, banana ranks first in production and third in area under cultivation.
- Lastly rural folks need practical training in agriculture to enable them to plant vegetables and crops.
- These four crops accounted for 52 percent of U.S. acres planted to crops excluding fruits and vegetables in 2001.
- As rent and repayment for seeds or other supplies, the farmer pays the landowner with a portion of the crops grown on the land.
- The women baked bread and danced and listened to music, and the guys worked out on the fields, growing vegetables and other crops.
- He now has no land to grow crops or raise cattle.
- Ploughing was his forte and he loved to sow and plant the crops, watch them grow and mature, and harvest them at the back-end.
- The crop is grown commercially only in those regions where the plants are forced into a rest period by cold or drought.
- The whole community participates in clearing land to grow crops.
- A wide range of vegetable crops are grown, all of which are produced without any of the modern-day chemicals which dominate the lives of today's farmer.
- Fruits and vegetables are expensive crops to grow.
- Right now, about three million hectares of Canadian farmland are growing crops of plants that have been genetically modified by biotechnology.
- Allowing GM crops to be grown commercially in Scotland could lead to another outbreak of direct action by environmentalists.
- In late November, the same producer might then plant a flax crop to grow through March.
1. 1.1 An amount of produce harvested at one time.
  a heavy crop of fruit
  Example sentencesExamples
  When all the crops had been harvested and stored away, and before the men left for the fall hunt, the Harvest Festival was held.
  Their action comes in the middle of the cherry picking season and has forced growers into the orchards to harvest their own crop.
  While the GM seeds cost more than regular ones, she saves money by not having to use so much pesticide and has harvested bigger crops.
  Gusty winds continued to dry soils and accelerate the wheat crop toward an early harvest.
  When the crop was harvested, pesticide residues were found to exceed the legal limit.
  He was harvesting the crops, and had gathered in his arms a large bundle of corn.
  They do use modern farming technology, however, harvesting their crops with huge combines.
  The season of 1874-75 was excellent, with two crops harvested and stored.
  An answer may take 3-7 months, long after the crops have been harvested and contamination has happened.
  It gives the northern farmer more night light to harvest crops.
  Potato farmer Simon Bradley took matters into his own hands when he harvested his biggest crop, but was unable to sell it all through his York outlets.
  Farmers who came back to harvest the crops on their small-holdings often put their lives at risk to do so.
  Both men and women work in the fields and harvest the crops.
  The rainy season was so heavy following the drought that it destroyed the second crop and the harvest was so poor that one man in the village hung himself.
  They have to harvest the crop with almost military precision and at a pace almost as hectic as war.
  In some areas farmers have not harvested their crops, as there is no market for them.
  Three weeks from now I will be harvesting my crops.
  Farmers ask for government help because they cannot harvest their crops after a drought.
  All of us lived together, ploughed together, and harvested the crops together.
  The growers are still harvesting their crop, months later than usual.
  Synonyms
  harvest, year's growth, yield, produce, vintage, gathering, reaping, gleaning, garnering
2. 1.2 An abundance of something, especially a person's hair.
  he had a thick crop of wiry hair
  Example sentencesExamples
  Now, his dark eyes scanning his surroundings, he spots a woman with an unmistakable crop of curling red hair.
  And just to rub salt into the wound, I had a luxuriant crop of hair on the top of my head in those wasted years (there is a photo to prove it).
  He went under the razor and sacrificed his crop of red hair to raise money for his son's special school.
  The electric blue eyes beam between a dark crop of lush hair and a rich beard.
  Leaning heavily against the side of the desk, he runs a hand through his curly crop of brown hair.
  His face beamed beneath a crop of unbrushed hair.
  The whiteness of his robust crop of hair could, with a slight stretch, be thought premature.
  A heavier-than-average baby at nine pounds something with a messy crop of soot-black hair, squinty eyes and dimples in all the right places.
  The crop of ginger hair may be missing, but otherwise the similarities in size and style are striking.
  Mr. Wright had a thick crop of medium brown hair that crowned a boyish, blue eyed face.
  Damon sat across from them in a brown leather chair, his green eyes nearly hidden by his thick crop of brown-black hair.
  She had a crop of shining blonde curls, a round face and large grey eyes.
  This beautiful blue-eyed wonder also has a crop of thick luxurious brown hair.
  Even his neat crop of raven hair was beginning to grey at the edges.
  He had a wild crop of white hair and scary gray eyes that sended chills up Mel's spine.
  He stood straight, his head at a perfect angle revealing a pointed chin sporting a delicate crop of black hair finely trimmed at the end.
  He had a weird crop of facial hair, was ugly as all hell, and he talked in a way that bothered me.
  It suited her boyish crop of brunette hair and wild, pale blue eyes.
  Something about him she didn't like, his jaunty airs, the straw cowboy hat placed raggedly atop his musty brown crop of hair.
  He's tall, with a healthy crop of white hair.
  Synonyms
  mass, mane, mop, thatch, head, bush, cloud, frizz, fuzz, foam, curls, tangle, chaos, cascade, quiff, halo
3. 1.3 The total number of young farm animals born in a particular year on one farm.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Jennifer might talk about her award-winning goats or the new crop of kids born days before.
2A group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time.
the current crop of politicians
Example sentencesExamples
- Well, what do you think about the current crop of sitcoms?
- Meanwhile, come April, we'll have a new crop of stars to profile and watch.
- It sends a disturbing message that the new crop of aspiring music journalists do not know about music genres and musical history that emerged before 1990.
- Along came a new crop of country singers.
- The president's advisors will be worried by the latest crop of polls which appear to indicate a groundswell of dissatisfaction with their man.
- The challenge now, is to give the current crop of recruits more time to build a cohesive affront.
- The current crop of UK writers are turning out some amazing material.
- Every season, first books appear by a crop of new writers worthy of ink and paper.
- The current crop of middle to late 20th Century ‘Period Dramas’, all re-evaluate the past through a filter of modern-day attitudes.
- It's no small task, but the current crop of candidates appears to be up to the task.
- Only 21, he is already the holder of four singles titles, and is widely recognised as the most naturally gifted of the current crop of youngsters in the professional game.
- As the crop of digitally animated films becomes more abundant, audiences are likely to demand increasingly more from such movies.
- His recent European tour produced a bumper crop of such stories.
- Seasoned councillors welcomed a crop of hopeful new politicians into their ranks.
- This easily is one of the best looking games that will appear on the current crop of console hardware.
- The album is rather different from the current crop of pop music.
- There is plenty to keep the avid garden visitor busy tomorrow with a plentiful crop of gardens open in the area.
- Scotland currently have an abundant crop of up-and-coming back-rowers.
- The new crop of boats appears to be designed and built by committee, the accountants and people with no practical experience.
- But the current crop of tests appears to be aimed only at evaluating minimum competence.
Synonyms
batch, lot, assortment, selection, collection, supply, intake
3A hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short.
Example sentencesExamples
- Unconsciously she stretched a hand upwards to touch the short, pale blonde crop.
- An easy shape and vibrant color give this saucy crop its appeal.
- Our favorite crops are always about a great shape, color and, of course, terrific styling aids.
- I flicked at my hair, a savage spiky crop with a bleached fringe, lightly gelled, glanced at my watch, frowned and headed for the door.
- His close crop is obviously low maintenance.
- His hair has just been recently chopped from his younger out-of-date curtains style into a short ruffled and very sexy crop.
- With their similar crops of thick black hair, large soulful eyes, and charming grins, they're difficult to tell apart.
- She had her hair cut into a short crop and always wore pants or shorts.
- While I was eating, my mom fussed with my short crop of red hair.
- Emily Rose, who had a short crop of blond hair, had hers spiked up more than usual, giving her a uniquely almost warrior-esque look.
- In particular, I tell her, the short, blonde crop she sported was not well received.
- Her back was turned to me, so I could only see her short crop of black hair and the red mantle she wore.
- She mimics the popular asymmetrical relaxed crop with fine layered braids.
- His hair is longer than the close crop he wears during the season.
- A short crop of blond hair accented the flawless skin, the blue eyes.
- Buns, twists, chignons and hair knots generally work for most hair types, textures and lengths except super short chops and crops.
- We all had the same hairdo too, called a crop, and I'm pretty sure it came complete with a comb for your back pocket.
- There are plenty of short haircuts on display but they are more about disguising thinning crops than making a political statement.
- He arched his back, then ran his short, stubby fingers through the brush of short, white crop of hair on his head.
Synonyms
haircut, trim, clip
4
short for riding crop
Example sentencesExamples
- Flipping back one of the exercise mats, he revealed a selection of whips, canes and crops.
Synonyms
whip, lash, scourge, cat, thong, switch, birch, cane, stick
5A pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion.
Example sentencesExamples
- Grain is stored in their crops and ground by the grit in their gizzard.
- Chickadees don't have a crop in their throats to store food that is slowly digested while sleeping.
Synonyms
craw, maw, gullet, throat
1. 5.1 An organ resembling a bird's crop in an insect or earthworm.
  Example sentencesExamples
  A comparison of specific organs revealed a huge difference in ethyl oleate found in the crop, an organ used for nectar storage.
  Serotonin is a biogenic amine that modulates smooth muscle contractions of the crop and gizzard of the earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris.
6The entire tanned hide of an animal.
Synonyms
hide, pelt, fleece

verbkräpkrɑp

[with object]

1Cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short.
she cropped her long golden hair
Example sentencesExamples
- White hair was cropped short and he had nice cheekbones.
- She shook her head, short cropped red hair dancing delicately in the movement.
- His hair was cropped short and his skin was dark.
- His hair was cropped short and made his head look square.
- He looked to be in his thirties, with short cropped dark hair and bright hazel eyes.
- She pushed back her hood and short cropped brown hair was revealed.
- The woman wore a white tank top and shorts, and had cropped red hair.
- His once red hair was cropped short and his green eyes sparked with intensity.
- She was a recent divorcee with short, cropped brown hair and doe eyes.
- Her blonde hair was cropped even shorter and her aquamarine eyes were not red rimmed like Julia's.
- Her blond hair was cropped short and framed her face.
- Blonde hair was cropped close to his head, and looked rather disheveled.
- She is reminded bitterly of how she cropped her long hair short.
- He had short cropped blonde hair and friendly ice blue eyes.
- He combed his fingers through his short cropped hair and opened the door.
- Young men have very short, closely cropped hair and also dress stylishly.
- This woman's hair was cropped short in haphazard spikes on the top, a braid hanging over her shoulder.
- She had incredibly short, cropped dark hair and little curls that framed her thin face.
- There stood a tall man of about 25 with blonde cropped hair, and electric blue eyes under silver framed glasses.
- The man is described as around 5ft 10 in, in his early 20s, with very short, possibly cropped mousy hair.
Synonyms
cut short, cut, clip, trim, snip, shear, shave
1. 1.1 (of an animal) bite off and eat the tops of (plants)
  the horse was gratefully cropping the grass
  Example sentencesExamples
  The pony merely rolled an eye to look up at him and continued cropping the grass lazily.
  But when I tasted them, they were extremely salty, and the leaves had obviously been cropped by a rodent.
  He lifted his head and shook his mane in recognition and went back to contentedly cropping the grass.
  He shook his white mane out and set about cropping some grass from the edge of the road.
  Deer cropped the springy turf beside us, so close we could hear every snuffle and chomp.
  He had finished drinking, and was now cropping the grass a small distance away.
  They are characterized by a short snout and the loss of almost all their teeth, which were replaced by a turtle-like beak used for cropping vegetation.
  The abandonment of sheep farming has led to degradation in the character of the landscape as grass that was previously cropped is allowed to grow rank and wild.
  On the hillside below them half a dozen sheep cropped the sunlit grass and kept a wary eye.
  Some distance behind him a black horse cropped the grass.
  It was just a prefabricated hut, with a couple of sheep cropping the grass outside.
  Sheep and cattle do not crop a pasture in neat rows.
  She looked depressed and forgotten with her head to the ground, carefully cropping each blade of grass to the same height.
  Apart from the structure of the pelvis they characteristically had an additional bone at the front of the upper jaw, the predentary, which bore no teeth but acted like a beak for cropping vegetation.
  A sound of underwater cows cropping lily-pads came from the western margin of the pond, where the rapids were.
  Several Hampshire rams had been seen sleeping and cropping the grass in the yard adjoining a well-known York church.
  Synonyms
  graze on, browse on, feed on, nibble, nibble at, eat
2. 1.2 Cut the edges of (a photograph) in order to produce a better picture or to fit a given space.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the past, photographs were cropped to alter their meaning, mis-captioned and retouched.
  She had already cropped this photograph to fit the rectangular print into the square format of the book.
  The SMH crops the picture so that this potentially distressing part of the image is not visible to their readers.
  They cropped the photograph of her friend.
  Alternatively, you can use freely available software on your PC to zoom and crop your images at home.
  Just hop on over to the Cropping Corner to learn how to crop photographs in new and unusual shapes.
  Although you can crop a picture later using your computer, you'll get sharper results by cropping using the camera.
  You can quickly and easily crop your picture, correct brightness and contrast levels, even get rid of red-eye.
  I cropped the photo to the size of the original.
  The photo is cropped closely so that the reader is not aware that he's looking at a picture of a male horse rather than a mare.
  This way you can scale or crop the photo to fit the template.
  She took photos from magazines, enlarged them, cropped them, spliced them, and combined them with text.
  Add to that the good hour and a half it took me to scan and crop the photos.
  The photographs are cropped so low that the steps leading down to the river are divorced from the main path.
  Have I cropped the photo to eliminate extraneous detail and focus the viewer's attention?
  Other than cropping the photo and adjusting the levels and size, it has not been altered in any way.
  We can size, colour-correct and crop your images to fit space if required.
  We see that the photos are actually cropped from larger shots.
  The picture had been cropped to fit the face of a figure on the other player's shoulders.
  I have cropped the original photo to show only five of the sphere images.
2Harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area.
hay would have been cropped several times through the summer
Example sentencesExamples
- Nobody is going to start the laborious process of cropping a plant if it is freely available in the environment.
- Research has shown that both corn and soybeans produce higher yields when rotated rather than when cropped continuously.
- Set-aside payments will not help the farmer much because the subsidy is the same as if it had been cropped, but without the actual crop to sell.
- It should be farmers' priority in Zambia to cut cotton stalks immediately after cropping if they are to avoid serious infestation of pests and diseases and achieve better yields.
- First earlies are planted between the end of March and early April and take about 100 days before cropping.
- In Israel, vine cacti are cropped despite the absence of natural pollinators.
Synonyms
harvest, reap, mow
1. 2.1 Sow or plant (land) with plants that will produce food or fodder, especially on a large commercial scale.
  the southern areas are cropped in cotton
  Example sentencesExamples
  It grows in the same fertile soils that are good for farming, and it continues to be cleared for cropping as well as grazed, with hardly any in protected reserves.
  He crops 350 hectares of some of his best and worst soils with the pasture to produce between 500 kilograms and 750 kilogram of seed a hectare.
  Tillage farmers are facing crucial decisions on the amount of land they should crop under the new tillage policy.
  Fields with heavy infestations could be cropped for a few years so tillage and herbicides could reduce infestations.
  The lower value of these has necessitated more frequent cropping and the use of more farmland area, intensifying the effects upon the catchment.
  The Court has already imposed an interim injunction against the cleared area being cropped.
  Farmers should have 30 per cent of their cropped area planted with legumes each season.
  Southeastern soils have been intensively cropped and are prone to drought and erosion.
  At this time the cropped areas expanded significantly, as did the number of people engaged in that activity.
  Virtually all land is double cropped, and many farmers cultivate three or four crops a year.
  Rising temperatures will make arable land available that's currently too cold for cropping.
  The rest has been left idle, used as grazing land, or intermittently cropped.
  And this over here, we bought this farm not long ago, and that hadn't been cropped that area down there, for 30 years.
  Land must be cropped in order to pay the bills.
  A mere 10 per cent of the land has been cropped.
  Cropland must meet cropping history criteria and be physically and legally capable of being cropped in a normal manner.
  In the case of crops at least 50% of the eligible area must be cropped each year - i.e. sown with a crop other than grass.
  Trials with rhodes, panic and seteria grasses in particular have proven successful in providing year round pastures in areas unsuitable for cropping.

Phrasal Verbs

crop out

(of rock) appear or be exposed at the surface of the earth.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Mesozoic rocks crop out only in the Zhaigang and Zhainan areas in the southeastern part of the county.
- The hinges of folded debris layers crop out on the glacier surface as flow-parallel medial moraines, with axes dipping gently up-glacier.
- The nature of the Lower Palaeozoic rocks which crop out in the peninsula therefore hold important evidence for the Caledonian evolution of the area.
- At the base of the erosional hollow, an inlier of Jurassic rocks crops out below the late Cimmerian unconformity.
- The Hammamat Group is a sequence of immature, clastic sedimentary rocks that crop out sporadically throughout the central and northern segments of the Eastern Desert of Egypt.
- In contrast, depositional landscapes predominate in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, where soft sedimentary rocks crop out near the southern limit of the ice sheet.
- Volcanic rocks that crop out in the mine area are part of the Portage Lake Volcanics and consist of thin lava flows and interbedded sedimentary rocks.
- The Dzhabyk batholith crops out along the entire surface trace of the profile.
- Basement rocks crop out along the entire La Hague peninsula in a number of fault-bounded blocks and as thin layers separated by intrusive Cadomian igneous bodies.
- Mafic volcanic rocks on this trend crop out on eastern King Island, with exposures including dykes, pillow lavas, volcaniclastic rocks and dolomites.

crop up

Appear, occur, or come to one's notice unexpectedly.
some urgent business had cropped up
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘I'm not one of these people who is trying to be modern’ is a phrase that crops up repeatedly.
- All the same, Lola crops up frequently in our discussions like a slightly eccentric but beloved foreign cousin.
- Bruce Springsteen was a name that often cropped up as a reference point.
- The key word here, which crops up throughout the report and the subsequent discussion, is ‘unwitting’.
- It's a condition most commonly found in women, but occasionally crops up in a man.
- If something crops up that interests me, whether it's here or overseas, then I'll look at it.
- It's a problem we've noticed before and it seems to crop up at random intervals.
- It is not something that crops up on a day to day basis in terms of business.
- Something crops up that just absolutely has to be sorted out face to face.
- So if 01788 crops up on your phone bill and you can't recall where that is, this site will reveal it is Rugby, Warwickshire.
- They monitor the radios and they are ready to go if anything unusual crops up.
- When talking to locals and expats, this topic often crops up.
- He crops up a couple of times almost at random.
- I've noticed little mistakes and typos cropping up here and there.
- Challenge is one word that crops up in Heather's conversation a lot.
- The book is also repetitive: the same old laundry list of sour complaints about the man, his works, and his cronies, crops up again and again.
- These predictions crop up every decade or so and they are always wrong.
- One theme that crops up week after week are those who hit their 5 or 6 month anniversary.
- Unless something unexpected crops up this year, this test looks like something a lot of us should try next year.
- The gender issue crops up in just about every walk of life.
Synonyms
happen, occur, arise, arrive, turn up, spring up, pop up, surface, emerge, materialize, appear, come to light, present itself, make an appearance

Origin

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf. From Old English to the late 18th century there existed a sense ‘flower head, ear of corn’, giving rise to crop (sense 1 of the noun) and senses referring to the top of something, whence crop (sense 4 of the noun).

单词	crop
释义	Definition of crop in English: crop nounPlural crops krɒpkrɑp 1A cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable. the main crops were oats and barley Example sentencesExamples Plant breeders changed the crop into one grown primarily for the oil and protein in its seed. In addition to rice, they also grow some other edible crops and plant vegetables and fruit around the edge of their plots. Amongst the fruit crops grown in the country, banana ranks first in production and third in area under cultivation. Ploughing was his forte and he loved to sow and plant the crops, watch them grow and mature, and harvest them at the back-end. The women baked bread and danced and listened to music, and the guys worked out on the fields, growing vegetables and other crops. Right now, about three million hectares of Canadian farmland are growing crops of plants that have been genetically modified by biotechnology. Fruits and vegetables are expensive crops to grow. In late November, the same producer might then plant a flax crop to grow through March. Rice, wheat, maize, and millet are the main crops grown in the country. Farmers can use some parts of their land to grow crops and use other parts as recreation sites. The whole community participates in clearing land to grow crops. The crop is grown commercially only in those regions where the plants are forced into a rest period by cold or drought. These four crops accounted for 52 percent of U.S. acres planted to crops excluding fruits and vegetables in 2001. The animals were fed only on pasture, which was often the residue of various vegetable crops grown in the province of Naples. He now has no land to grow crops or raise cattle. Lastly rural folks need practical training in agriculture to enable them to plant vegetables and crops. It is these seeds that will ultimately be crushed to produce the vegetable oil that the crop is grown for. As rent and repayment for seeds or other supplies, the farmer pays the landowner with a portion of the crops grown on the land. Allowing GM crops to be grown commercially in Scotland could lead to another outbreak of direct action by environmentalists. A wide range of vegetable crops are grown, all of which are produced without any of the modern-day chemicals which dominate the lives of today's farmer. 1.1 An amount of produce harvested at one time. a heavy crop of fruit Example sentencesExamples Farmers ask for government help because they cannot harvest their crops after a drought. The season of 1874-75 was excellent, with two crops harvested and stored. In some areas farmers have not harvested their crops, as there is no market for them. The rainy season was so heavy following the drought that it destroyed the second crop and the harvest was so poor that one man in the village hung himself. Three weeks from now I will be harvesting my crops. Potato farmer Simon Bradley took matters into his own hands when he harvested his biggest crop, but was unable to sell it all through his York outlets. When all the crops had been harvested and stored away, and before the men left for the fall hunt, the Harvest Festival was held. They have to harvest the crop with almost military precision and at a pace almost as hectic as war. While the GM seeds cost more than regular ones, she saves money by not having to use so much pesticide and has harvested bigger crops. An answer may take 3-7 months, long after the crops have been harvested and contamination has happened. Both men and women work in the fields and harvest the crops. The growers are still harvesting their crop, months later than usual. All of us lived together, ploughed together, and harvested the crops together. It gives the northern farmer more night light to harvest crops. Gusty winds continued to dry soils and accelerate the wheat crop toward an early harvest. They do use modern farming technology, however, harvesting their crops with huge combines. Farmers who came back to harvest the crops on their small-holdings often put their lives at risk to do so. He was harvesting the crops, and had gathered in his arms a large bundle of corn. Their action comes in the middle of the cherry picking season and has forced growers into the orchards to harvest their own crop. When the crop was harvested, pesticide residues were found to exceed the legal limit. Synonyms harvest, year's growth, yield, produce, vintage, gathering, reaping, gleaning, garnering fruits 1.2 An abundance of something, especially a person's hair. he had a thick crop of wiry hair Example sentencesExamples He had a weird crop of facial hair, was ugly as all hell, and he talked in a way that bothered me. He's tall, with a healthy crop of white hair. Now, his dark eyes scanning his surroundings, he spots a woman with an unmistakable crop of curling red hair. Leaning heavily against the side of the desk, he runs a hand through his curly crop of brown hair. He went under the razor and sacrificed his crop of red hair to raise money for his son's special school. This beautiful blue-eyed wonder also has a crop of thick luxurious brown hair. Even his neat crop of raven hair was beginning to grey at the edges. It suited her boyish crop of brunette hair and wild, pale blue eyes. He stood straight, his head at a perfect angle revealing a pointed chin sporting a delicate crop of black hair finely trimmed at the end. The electric blue eyes beam between a dark crop of lush hair and a rich beard. His face beamed beneath a crop of unbrushed hair. Mr. Wright had a thick crop of medium brown hair that crowned a boyish, blue eyed face. And just to rub salt into the wound, I had a luxuriant crop of hair on the top of my head in those wasted years (there is a photo to prove it). Damon sat across from them in a brown leather chair, his green eyes nearly hidden by his thick crop of brown-black hair. The whiteness of his robust crop of hair could, with a slight stretch, be thought premature. Something about him she didn't like, his jaunty airs, the straw cowboy hat placed raggedly atop his musty brown crop of hair. The crop of ginger hair may be missing, but otherwise the similarities in size and style are striking. A heavier-than-average baby at nine pounds something with a messy crop of soot-black hair, squinty eyes and dimples in all the right places. She had a crop of shining blonde curls, a round face and large grey eyes. He had a wild crop of white hair and scary gray eyes that sended chills up Mel's spine. Synonyms mass, mane, mop, thatch, head, bush, cloud, frizz, fuzz, foam, curls, tangle, chaos, cascade, quiff, halo 1.3 The total number of young farm animals born in a particular year on one farm. failure to observe sound practice leads to a lamb crop at weaning of around 50–60 per cent Example sentencesExamples Jennifer might talk about her award-winning goats or the new crop of kids born days before. 2A group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time. the current crop of politicians Example sentencesExamples Scotland currently have an abundant crop of up-and-coming back-rowers. The current crop of middle to late 20th Century ‘Period Dramas’, all re-evaluate the past through a filter of modern-day attitudes. Every season, first books appear by a crop of new writers worthy of ink and paper. The current crop of UK writers are turning out some amazing material. Meanwhile, come April, we'll have a new crop of stars to profile and watch. This easily is one of the best looking games that will appear on the current crop of console hardware. There is plenty to keep the avid garden visitor busy tomorrow with a plentiful crop of gardens open in the area. His recent European tour produced a bumper crop of such stories. But the current crop of tests appears to be aimed only at evaluating minimum competence. Seasoned councillors welcomed a crop of hopeful new politicians into their ranks. The challenge now, is to give the current crop of recruits more time to build a cohesive affront. The new crop of boats appears to be designed and built by committee, the accountants and people with no practical experience. It's no small task, but the current crop of candidates appears to be up to the task. Well, what do you think about the current crop of sitcoms? The president's advisors will be worried by the latest crop of polls which appear to indicate a groundswell of dissatisfaction with their man. As the crop of digitally animated films becomes more abundant, audiences are likely to demand increasingly more from such movies. Only 21, he is already the holder of four singles titles, and is widely recognised as the most naturally gifted of the current crop of youngsters in the professional game. The album is rather different from the current crop of pop music. It sends a disturbing message that the new crop of aspiring music journalists do not know about music genres and musical history that emerged before 1990. Along came a new crop of country singers. Synonyms batch, lot, assortment, selection, collection, supply, intake 3A hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short. she has her hair cut in a short crop Example sentencesExamples His hair is longer than the close crop he wears during the season. Our favorite crops are always about a great shape, color and, of course, terrific styling aids. He arched his back, then ran his short, stubby fingers through the brush of short, white crop of hair on his head. With their similar crops of thick black hair, large soulful eyes, and charming grins, they're difficult to tell apart. His hair has just been recently chopped from his younger out-of-date curtains style into a short ruffled and very sexy crop. His close crop is obviously low maintenance. In particular, I tell her, the short, blonde crop she sported was not well received. There are plenty of short haircuts on display but they are more about disguising thinning crops than making a political statement. She mimics the popular asymmetrical relaxed crop with fine layered braids. Her back was turned to me, so I could only see her short crop of black hair and the red mantle she wore. A short crop of blond hair accented the flawless skin, the blue eyes. An easy shape and vibrant color give this saucy crop its appeal. I flicked at my hair, a savage spiky crop with a bleached fringe, lightly gelled, glanced at my watch, frowned and headed for the door. Unconsciously she stretched a hand upwards to touch the short, pale blonde crop. She had her hair cut into a short crop and always wore pants or shorts. Emily Rose, who had a short crop of blond hair, had hers spiked up more than usual, giving her a uniquely almost warrior-esque look. We all had the same hairdo too, called a crop, and I'm pretty sure it came complete with a comb for your back pocket. Buns, twists, chignons and hair knots generally work for most hair types, textures and lengths except super short chops and crops. While I was eating, my mom fussed with my short crop of red hair. Synonyms haircut, trim, clip 4 short for riding crop or hunting crop Example sentencesExamples Flipping back one of the exercise mats, he revealed a selection of whips, canes and crops. Synonyms whip, lash, scourge, cat, thong, switch, birch, cane, stick riding crop, hunting crop 5A pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion. the parent waxbill partially digests food in its crop Example sentencesExamples Chickadees don't have a crop in their throats to store food that is slowly digested while sleeping. Grain is stored in their crops and ground by the grit in their gizzard. Synonyms craw, maw, gullet, throat oesophagus, pharynx informal, dated the red lane archaic throttle, gorge, gula 5.1 An organ resembling a pouch in an insect or earthworm. Example sentencesExamples Serotonin is a biogenic amine that modulates smooth muscle contractions of the crop and gizzard of the earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris. A comparison of specific organs revealed a huge difference in ethyl oleate found in the crop, an organ used for nectar storage. 6The entire tanned hide of an animal. Synonyms hide, pelt, fleece verbcrops, cropped, cropping krɒpkrɑp 1with object Cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short. she cropped her long golden hair Example sentencesExamples The woman wore a white tank top and shorts, and had cropped red hair. She is reminded bitterly of how she cropped her long hair short. Her blonde hair was cropped even shorter and her aquamarine eyes were not red rimmed like Julia's. She was a recent divorcee with short, cropped brown hair and doe eyes. She had incredibly short, cropped dark hair and little curls that framed her thin face. He had short cropped blonde hair and friendly ice blue eyes. Blonde hair was cropped close to his head, and looked rather disheveled. White hair was cropped short and he had nice cheekbones. The man is described as around 5ft 10 in, in his early 20s, with very short, possibly cropped mousy hair. His once red hair was cropped short and his green eyes sparked with intensity. There stood a tall man of about 25 with blonde cropped hair, and electric blue eyes under silver framed glasses. She pushed back her hood and short cropped brown hair was revealed. He looked to be in his thirties, with short cropped dark hair and bright hazel eyes. He combed his fingers through his short cropped hair and opened the door. His hair was cropped short and made his head look square. Her blond hair was cropped short and framed her face. This woman's hair was cropped short in haphazard spikes on the top, a braid hanging over her shoulder. She shook her head, short cropped red hair dancing delicately in the movement. His hair was cropped short and his skin was dark. Young men have very short, closely cropped hair and also dress stylishly. Synonyms cut short, cut, clip, trim, snip, shear, shave pare, prune, fleece, lop, dock, remove, detach cut off, hack off, chop off, take off shorten, make shorter, cut shorter, cut into a bob barber, tonsure 1.1 (of an animal) bite off and eat the tops of (plants) the horse was gratefully cropping the grass Example sentencesExamples The pony merely rolled an eye to look up at him and continued cropping the grass lazily. Several Hampshire rams had been seen sleeping and cropping the grass in the yard adjoining a well-known York church. He lifted his head and shook his mane in recognition and went back to contentedly cropping the grass. Deer cropped the springy turf beside us, so close we could hear every snuffle and chomp. A sound of underwater cows cropping lily-pads came from the western margin of the pond, where the rapids were. The abandonment of sheep farming has led to degradation in the character of the landscape as grass that was previously cropped is allowed to grow rank and wild. Apart from the structure of the pelvis they characteristically had an additional bone at the front of the upper jaw, the predentary, which bore no teeth but acted like a beak for cropping vegetation. He had finished drinking, and was now cropping the grass a small distance away. Sheep and cattle do not crop a pasture in neat rows. They are characterized by a short snout and the loss of almost all their teeth, which were replaced by a turtle-like beak used for cropping vegetation. It was just a prefabricated hut, with a couple of sheep cropping the grass outside. He shook his white mane out and set about cropping some grass from the edge of the road. Some distance behind him a black horse cropped the grass. But when I tasted them, they were extremely salty, and the leaves had obviously been cropped by a rodent. On the hillside below them half a dozen sheep cropped the sunlit grass and kept a wary eye. She looked depressed and forgotten with her head to the ground, carefully cropping each blade of grass to the same height. Synonyms graze on, browse on, feed on, nibble (at), eat pasture, ruminate 1.2 Cut the edges of (a photograph) in order to produce a better picture or to fit a given space. you can always crop the picture afterwards Example sentencesExamples She took photos from magazines, enlarged them, cropped them, spliced them, and combined them with text. You can quickly and easily crop your picture, correct brightness and contrast levels, even get rid of red-eye. I cropped the photo to the size of the original. We can size, colour-correct and crop your images to fit space if required. We see that the photos are actually cropped from larger shots. They cropped the photograph of her friend. I have cropped the original photo to show only five of the sphere images. The photo is cropped closely so that the reader is not aware that he's looking at a picture of a male horse rather than a mare. Alternatively, you can use freely available software on your PC to zoom and crop your images at home. Add to that the good hour and a half it took me to scan and crop the photos. The SMH crops the picture so that this potentially distressing part of the image is not visible to their readers. Although you can crop a picture later using your computer, you'll get sharper results by cropping using the camera. Just hop on over to the Cropping Corner to learn how to crop photographs in new and unusual shapes. In the past, photographs were cropped to alter their meaning, mis-captioned and retouched. Other than cropping the photo and adjusting the levels and size, it has not been altered in any way. The picture had been cropped to fit the face of a figure on the other player's shoulders. Have I cropped the photo to eliminate extraneous detail and focus the viewer's attention? The photographs are cropped so low that the steps leading down to the river are divorced from the main path. She had already cropped this photograph to fit the rectangular print into the square format of the book. This way you can scale or crop the photo to fit the template. 2with object Harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area. hay would have been cropped several times through the summer Example sentencesExamples First earlies are planted between the end of March and early April and take about 100 days before cropping. Research has shown that both corn and soybeans produce higher yields when rotated rather than when cropped continuously. In Israel, vine cacti are cropped despite the absence of natural pollinators. It should be farmers' priority in Zambia to cut cotton stalks immediately after cropping if they are to avoid serious infestation of pests and diseases and achieve better yields. Nobody is going to start the laborious process of cropping a plant if it is freely available in the environment. Set-aside payments will not help the farmer much because the subsidy is the same as if it had been cropped, but without the actual crop to sell. Synonyms harvest, reap, mow gather, collect, pick, pluck gather in, take in, bring home literary glean, garner, cull 2.1 Sow or plant (land) with plants that will produce food or fodder, especially on a large commercial scale. the southern areas are cropped in cotton Example sentencesExamples Southeastern soils have been intensively cropped and are prone to drought and erosion. The rest has been left idle, used as grazing land, or intermittently cropped. Farmers should have 30 per cent of their cropped area planted with legumes each season. And this over here, we bought this farm not long ago, and that hadn't been cropped that area down there, for 30 years. At this time the cropped areas expanded significantly, as did the number of people engaged in that activity. In the case of crops at least 50% of the eligible area must be cropped each year - i.e. sown with a crop other than grass. Virtually all land is double cropped, and many farmers cultivate three or four crops a year. A mere 10 per cent of the land has been cropped. It grows in the same fertile soils that are good for farming, and it continues to be cleared for cropping as well as grazed, with hardly any in protected reserves. Land must be cropped in order to pay the bills. Cropland must meet cropping history criteria and be physically and legally capable of being cropped in a normal manner. Fields with heavy infestations could be cropped for a few years so tillage and herbicides could reduce infestations. He crops 350 hectares of some of his best and worst soils with the pasture to produce between 500 kilograms and 750 kilogram of seed a hectare. Trials with rhodes, panic and seteria grasses in particular have proven successful in providing year round pastures in areas unsuitable for cropping. Rising temperatures will make arable land available that's currently too cold for cropping. The Court has already imposed an interim injunction against the cleared area being cropped. Tillage farmers are facing crucial decisions on the amount of land they should crop under the new tillage policy. The lower value of these has necessitated more frequent cropping and the use of more farmland area, intensifying the effects upon the catchment. 2.2no object (of land or a plant) yield a harvest of plants or produce. the parsley will need protection to continue cropping through the winter Example sentencesExamples If planted in April 1990, they will crop in the summer of 1990, 1991 and 1992. I always like to sow some broad beans in autumn to have something growing in the veg plot over winter, and they usually crop earlier than the spring-sown ones. Raspberries continue to crop heavily too, but there aren't that many left now. Phrasal Verbs crop out (of rock) appear or be exposed at the surface of the earth. high hills are found where the igneous rocks of eastern South Uist crop out Example sentencesExamples The hinges of folded debris layers crop out on the glacier surface as flow-parallel medial moraines, with axes dipping gently up-glacier. At the base of the erosional hollow, an inlier of Jurassic rocks crops out below the late Cimmerian unconformity. Volcanic rocks that crop out in the mine area are part of the Portage Lake Volcanics and consist of thin lava flows and interbedded sedimentary rocks. In contrast, depositional landscapes predominate in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, where soft sedimentary rocks crop out near the southern limit of the ice sheet. Mafic volcanic rocks on this trend crop out on eastern King Island, with exposures including dykes, pillow lavas, volcaniclastic rocks and dolomites. The Mesozoic rocks crop out only in the Zhaigang and Zhainan areas in the southeastern part of the county. The Dzhabyk batholith crops out along the entire surface trace of the profile. Basement rocks crop out along the entire La Hague peninsula in a number of fault-bounded blocks and as thin layers separated by intrusive Cadomian igneous bodies. The Hammamat Group is a sequence of immature, clastic sedimentary rocks that crop out sporadically throughout the central and northern segments of the Eastern Desert of Egypt. The nature of the Lower Palaeozoic rocks which crop out in the peninsula therefore hold important evidence for the Caledonian evolution of the area. crop up Appear, occur, or come to one's notice unexpectedly. some urgent business had cropped up Example sentencesExamples It is not something that crops up on a day to day basis in terms of business. The book is also repetitive: the same old laundry list of sour complaints about the man, his works, and his cronies, crops up again and again. The key word here, which crops up throughout the report and the subsequent discussion, is ‘unwitting’. Something crops up that just absolutely has to be sorted out face to face. So if 01788 crops up on your phone bill and you can't recall where that is, this site will reveal it is Rugby, Warwickshire. One theme that crops up week after week are those who hit their 5 or 6 month anniversary. They monitor the radios and they are ready to go if anything unusual crops up. I've noticed little mistakes and typos cropping up here and there. If something crops up that interests me, whether it's here or overseas, then I'll look at it. ‘I'm not one of these people who is trying to be modern’ is a phrase that crops up repeatedly. Unless something unexpected crops up this year, this test looks like something a lot of us should try next year. When talking to locals and expats, this topic often crops up. He crops up a couple of times almost at random. All the same, Lola crops up frequently in our discussions like a slightly eccentric but beloved foreign cousin. Bruce Springsteen was a name that often cropped up as a reference point. It's a condition most commonly found in women, but occasionally crops up in a man. The gender issue crops up in just about every walk of life. These predictions crop up every decade or so and they are always wrong. It's a problem we've noticed before and it seems to crop up at random intervals. Challenge is one word that crops up in Heather's conversation a lot. Synonyms happen, occur, arise, arrive, turn up, spring up, pop up, surface, emerge, materialize, appear, come to light, present itself, make an appearance Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf. From Old English to the late 18th century there existed a sense 'flower head, ear of corn', giving rise to sense 1 of the noun and senses referring to the top of something, whence sense 4 of the noun. From around ad 700 to the late 18th century crop, related to group (late 17th century), had a sense ‘flower head, ear of corn’, which gave rise to the main modern meaning ‘a cultivated plant grown on a large scale’ and also to senses referring to the top of something, such as the verb uses ‘to cut very short’ or ‘to bite off and eat the tops of plants’. The sense ‘a very short hairstyle’ goes back to the late 18th century but is particularly associated with the 1920s, when the Eton crop, reminiscent of the style then worn at the English public school Eton, was fashionable for young women. To come a cropper is to suffer a defeat or disaster. The origin of the phrase may be the 19th-century hunting slang term ‘cropper’, meaning ‘a heavy fall’. Cropper probably came from neck and crop, an expression meaning ‘completely or thoroughly’ and originally used in the context of a horse falling to the ground. Crop here referred either to the rider's whip (originally the top part of a whip) or the horse's hindquarters. This sense is found in Old French croupe ‘rump’, which appears as croup in Middle English, and is the source of the crupper (Middle English), the bit of harness that goes from the saddle under the horse's tail, and which lies behind the word croupier (early 18th century). In early use, this was a term for a person standing behind a gambler to give advice, adopted from French, cropier ‘pillion rider, rider on the croup’. Video Rhymes atop, bop, chop, clop, cop, dop, drop, Dunlop, estop, flop, fop, glop, hop, intercrop, knop, kop, lop, mop, op, plop, pop, prop, screw-top, shop, slop, sop, stop, strop, swap, tiptop, top, underprop, whop noun.1 phr.v. Definition of crop in US English: crop nounkräpkrɑp 1A cultivated plant that is grown as food, especially a grain, fruit, or vegetable. the main crops were oats and barley Example sentencesExamples It is these seeds that will ultimately be crushed to produce the vegetable oil that the crop is grown for. In addition to rice, they also grow some other edible crops and plant vegetables and fruit around the edge of their plots. The animals were fed only on pasture, which was often the residue of various vegetable crops grown in the province of Naples. Plant breeders changed the crop into one grown primarily for the oil and protein in its seed. Farmers can use some parts of their land to grow crops and use other parts as recreation sites. Rice, wheat, maize, and millet are the main crops grown in the country. Amongst the fruit crops grown in the country, banana ranks first in production and third in area under cultivation. Lastly rural folks need practical training in agriculture to enable them to plant vegetables and crops. These four crops accounted for 52 percent of U.S. acres planted to crops excluding fruits and vegetables in 2001. As rent and repayment for seeds or other supplies, the farmer pays the landowner with a portion of the crops grown on the land. The women baked bread and danced and listened to music, and the guys worked out on the fields, growing vegetables and other crops. He now has no land to grow crops or raise cattle. Ploughing was his forte and he loved to sow and plant the crops, watch them grow and mature, and harvest them at the back-end. The crop is grown commercially only in those regions where the plants are forced into a rest period by cold or drought. The whole community participates in clearing land to grow crops. A wide range of vegetable crops are grown, all of which are produced without any of the modern-day chemicals which dominate the lives of today's farmer. Fruits and vegetables are expensive crops to grow. Right now, about three million hectares of Canadian farmland are growing crops of plants that have been genetically modified by biotechnology. Allowing GM crops to be grown commercially in Scotland could lead to another outbreak of direct action by environmentalists. In late November, the same producer might then plant a flax crop to grow through March. 1.1 An amount of produce harvested at one time. a heavy crop of fruit Example sentencesExamples When all the crops had been harvested and stored away, and before the men left for the fall hunt, the Harvest Festival was held. Their action comes in the middle of the cherry picking season and has forced growers into the orchards to harvest their own crop. While the GM seeds cost more than regular ones, she saves money by not having to use so much pesticide and has harvested bigger crops. Gusty winds continued to dry soils and accelerate the wheat crop toward an early harvest. When the crop was harvested, pesticide residues were found to exceed the legal limit. He was harvesting the crops, and had gathered in his arms a large bundle of corn. They do use modern farming technology, however, harvesting their crops with huge combines. The season of 1874-75 was excellent, with two crops harvested and stored. An answer may take 3-7 months, long after the crops have been harvested and contamination has happened. It gives the northern farmer more night light to harvest crops. Potato farmer Simon Bradley took matters into his own hands when he harvested his biggest crop, but was unable to sell it all through his York outlets. Farmers who came back to harvest the crops on their small-holdings often put their lives at risk to do so. Both men and women work in the fields and harvest the crops. The rainy season was so heavy following the drought that it destroyed the second crop and the harvest was so poor that one man in the village hung himself. They have to harvest the crop with almost military precision and at a pace almost as hectic as war. In some areas farmers have not harvested their crops, as there is no market for them. Three weeks from now I will be harvesting my crops. Farmers ask for government help because they cannot harvest their crops after a drought. All of us lived together, ploughed together, and harvested the crops together. The growers are still harvesting their crop, months later than usual. Synonyms harvest, year's growth, yield, produce, vintage, gathering, reaping, gleaning, garnering 1.2 An abundance of something, especially a person's hair. he had a thick crop of wiry hair Example sentencesExamples Now, his dark eyes scanning his surroundings, he spots a woman with an unmistakable crop of curling red hair. And just to rub salt into the wound, I had a luxuriant crop of hair on the top of my head in those wasted years (there is a photo to prove it). He went under the razor and sacrificed his crop of red hair to raise money for his son's special school. The electric blue eyes beam between a dark crop of lush hair and a rich beard. Leaning heavily against the side of the desk, he runs a hand through his curly crop of brown hair. His face beamed beneath a crop of unbrushed hair. The whiteness of his robust crop of hair could, with a slight stretch, be thought premature. A heavier-than-average baby at nine pounds something with a messy crop of soot-black hair, squinty eyes and dimples in all the right places. The crop of ginger hair may be missing, but otherwise the similarities in size and style are striking. Mr. Wright had a thick crop of medium brown hair that crowned a boyish, blue eyed face. Damon sat across from them in a brown leather chair, his green eyes nearly hidden by his thick crop of brown-black hair. She had a crop of shining blonde curls, a round face and large grey eyes. This beautiful blue-eyed wonder also has a crop of thick luxurious brown hair. Even his neat crop of raven hair was beginning to grey at the edges. He had a wild crop of white hair and scary gray eyes that sended chills up Mel's spine. He stood straight, his head at a perfect angle revealing a pointed chin sporting a delicate crop of black hair finely trimmed at the end. He had a weird crop of facial hair, was ugly as all hell, and he talked in a way that bothered me. It suited her boyish crop of brunette hair and wild, pale blue eyes. Something about him she didn't like, his jaunty airs, the straw cowboy hat placed raggedly atop his musty brown crop of hair. He's tall, with a healthy crop of white hair. Synonyms mass, mane, mop, thatch, head, bush, cloud, frizz, fuzz, foam, curls, tangle, chaos, cascade, quiff, halo 1.3 The total number of young farm animals born in a particular year on one farm. Example sentencesExamples Jennifer might talk about her award-winning goats or the new crop of kids born days before. 2A group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time. the current crop of politicians Example sentencesExamples Well, what do you think about the current crop of sitcoms? Meanwhile, come April, we'll have a new crop of stars to profile and watch. It sends a disturbing message that the new crop of aspiring music journalists do not know about music genres and musical history that emerged before 1990. Along came a new crop of country singers. The president's advisors will be worried by the latest crop of polls which appear to indicate a groundswell of dissatisfaction with their man. The challenge now, is to give the current crop of recruits more time to build a cohesive affront. The current crop of UK writers are turning out some amazing material. Every season, first books appear by a crop of new writers worthy of ink and paper. The current crop of middle to late 20th Century ‘Period Dramas’, all re-evaluate the past through a filter of modern-day attitudes. It's no small task, but the current crop of candidates appears to be up to the task. Only 21, he is already the holder of four singles titles, and is widely recognised as the most naturally gifted of the current crop of youngsters in the professional game. As the crop of digitally animated films becomes more abundant, audiences are likely to demand increasingly more from such movies. His recent European tour produced a bumper crop of such stories. Seasoned councillors welcomed a crop of hopeful new politicians into their ranks. This easily is one of the best looking games that will appear on the current crop of console hardware. The album is rather different from the current crop of pop music. There is plenty to keep the avid garden visitor busy tomorrow with a plentiful crop of gardens open in the area. Scotland currently have an abundant crop of up-and-coming back-rowers. The new crop of boats appears to be designed and built by committee, the accountants and people with no practical experience. But the current crop of tests appears to be aimed only at evaluating minimum competence. Synonyms batch, lot, assortment, selection, collection, supply, intake 3A hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short. Example sentencesExamples Unconsciously she stretched a hand upwards to touch the short, pale blonde crop. An easy shape and vibrant color give this saucy crop its appeal. Our favorite crops are always about a great shape, color and, of course, terrific styling aids. I flicked at my hair, a savage spiky crop with a bleached fringe, lightly gelled, glanced at my watch, frowned and headed for the door. His close crop is obviously low maintenance. His hair has just been recently chopped from his younger out-of-date curtains style into a short ruffled and very sexy crop. With their similar crops of thick black hair, large soulful eyes, and charming grins, they're difficult to tell apart. She had her hair cut into a short crop and always wore pants or shorts. While I was eating, my mom fussed with my short crop of red hair. Emily Rose, who had a short crop of blond hair, had hers spiked up more than usual, giving her a uniquely almost warrior-esque look. In particular, I tell her, the short, blonde crop she sported was not well received. Her back was turned to me, so I could only see her short crop of black hair and the red mantle she wore. She mimics the popular asymmetrical relaxed crop with fine layered braids. His hair is longer than the close crop he wears during the season. A short crop of blond hair accented the flawless skin, the blue eyes. Buns, twists, chignons and hair knots generally work for most hair types, textures and lengths except super short chops and crops. We all had the same hairdo too, called a crop, and I'm pretty sure it came complete with a comb for your back pocket. There are plenty of short haircuts on display but they are more about disguising thinning crops than making a political statement. He arched his back, then ran his short, stubby fingers through the brush of short, white crop of hair on his head. Synonyms haircut, trim, clip 4 short for riding crop Example sentencesExamples Flipping back one of the exercise mats, he revealed a selection of whips, canes and crops. Synonyms whip, lash, scourge, cat, thong, switch, birch, cane, stick 5A pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion. Example sentencesExamples Grain is stored in their crops and ground by the grit in their gizzard. Chickadees don't have a crop in their throats to store food that is slowly digested while sleeping. Synonyms craw, maw, gullet, throat 5.1 An organ resembling a bird's crop in an insect or earthworm. Example sentencesExamples A comparison of specific organs revealed a huge difference in ethyl oleate found in the crop, an organ used for nectar storage. Serotonin is a biogenic amine that modulates smooth muscle contractions of the crop and gizzard of the earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris. 6The entire tanned hide of an animal. Synonyms hide, pelt, fleece verbkräpkrɑp [with object] 1Cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short. she cropped her long golden hair Example sentencesExamples White hair was cropped short and he had nice cheekbones. She shook her head, short cropped red hair dancing delicately in the movement. His hair was cropped short and his skin was dark. His hair was cropped short and made his head look square. He looked to be in his thirties, with short cropped dark hair and bright hazel eyes. She pushed back her hood and short cropped brown hair was revealed. The woman wore a white tank top and shorts, and had cropped red hair. His once red hair was cropped short and his green eyes sparked with intensity. She was a recent divorcee with short, cropped brown hair and doe eyes. Her blonde hair was cropped even shorter and her aquamarine eyes were not red rimmed like Julia's. Her blond hair was cropped short and framed her face. Blonde hair was cropped close to his head, and looked rather disheveled. She is reminded bitterly of how she cropped her long hair short. He had short cropped blonde hair and friendly ice blue eyes. He combed his fingers through his short cropped hair and opened the door. Young men have very short, closely cropped hair and also dress stylishly. This woman's hair was cropped short in haphazard spikes on the top, a braid hanging over her shoulder. She had incredibly short, cropped dark hair and little curls that framed her thin face. There stood a tall man of about 25 with blonde cropped hair, and electric blue eyes under silver framed glasses. The man is described as around 5ft 10 in, in his early 20s, with very short, possibly cropped mousy hair. Synonyms cut short, cut, clip, trim, snip, shear, shave 1.1 (of an animal) bite off and eat the tops of (plants) the horse was gratefully cropping the grass Example sentencesExamples The pony merely rolled an eye to look up at him and continued cropping the grass lazily. But when I tasted them, they were extremely salty, and the leaves had obviously been cropped by a rodent. He lifted his head and shook his mane in recognition and went back to contentedly cropping the grass. He shook his white mane out and set about cropping some grass from the edge of the road. Deer cropped the springy turf beside us, so close we could hear every snuffle and chomp. He had finished drinking, and was now cropping the grass a small distance away. They are characterized by a short snout and the loss of almost all their teeth, which were replaced by a turtle-like beak used for cropping vegetation. The abandonment of sheep farming has led to degradation in the character of the landscape as grass that was previously cropped is allowed to grow rank and wild. On the hillside below them half a dozen sheep cropped the sunlit grass and kept a wary eye. Some distance behind him a black horse cropped the grass. It was just a prefabricated hut, with a couple of sheep cropping the grass outside. Sheep and cattle do not crop a pasture in neat rows. She looked depressed and forgotten with her head to the ground, carefully cropping each blade of grass to the same height. Apart from the structure of the pelvis they characteristically had an additional bone at the front of the upper jaw, the predentary, which bore no teeth but acted like a beak for cropping vegetation. A sound of underwater cows cropping lily-pads came from the western margin of the pond, where the rapids were. Several Hampshire rams had been seen sleeping and cropping the grass in the yard adjoining a well-known York church. Synonyms graze on, browse on, feed on, nibble, nibble at, eat 1.2 Cut the edges of (a photograph) in order to produce a better picture or to fit a given space. Example sentencesExamples In the past, photographs were cropped to alter their meaning, mis-captioned and retouched. She had already cropped this photograph to fit the rectangular print into the square format of the book. The SMH crops the picture so that this potentially distressing part of the image is not visible to their readers. They cropped the photograph of her friend. Alternatively, you can use freely available software on your PC to zoom and crop your images at home. Just hop on over to the Cropping Corner to learn how to crop photographs in new and unusual shapes. Although you can crop a picture later using your computer, you'll get sharper results by cropping using the camera. You can quickly and easily crop your picture, correct brightness and contrast levels, even get rid of red-eye. I cropped the photo to the size of the original. The photo is cropped closely so that the reader is not aware that he's looking at a picture of a male horse rather than a mare. This way you can scale or crop the photo to fit the template. She took photos from magazines, enlarged them, cropped them, spliced them, and combined them with text. Add to that the good hour and a half it took me to scan and crop the photos. The photographs are cropped so low that the steps leading down to the river are divorced from the main path. Have I cropped the photo to eliminate extraneous detail and focus the viewer's attention? Other than cropping the photo and adjusting the levels and size, it has not been altered in any way. We can size, colour-correct and crop your images to fit space if required. We see that the photos are actually cropped from larger shots. The picture had been cropped to fit the face of a figure on the other player's shoulders. I have cropped the original photo to show only five of the sphere images. 2Harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area. hay would have been cropped several times through the summer Example sentencesExamples Nobody is going to start the laborious process of cropping a plant if it is freely available in the environment. Research has shown that both corn and soybeans produce higher yields when rotated rather than when cropped continuously. Set-aside payments will not help the farmer much because the subsidy is the same as if it had been cropped, but without the actual crop to sell. It should be farmers' priority in Zambia to cut cotton stalks immediately after cropping if they are to avoid serious infestation of pests and diseases and achieve better yields. First earlies are planted between the end of March and early April and take about 100 days before cropping. In Israel, vine cacti are cropped despite the absence of natural pollinators. Synonyms harvest, reap, mow 2.1 Sow or plant (land) with plants that will produce food or fodder, especially on a large commercial scale. the southern areas are cropped in cotton Example sentencesExamples It grows in the same fertile soils that are good for farming, and it continues to be cleared for cropping as well as grazed, with hardly any in protected reserves. He crops 350 hectares of some of his best and worst soils with the pasture to produce between 500 kilograms and 750 kilogram of seed a hectare. Tillage farmers are facing crucial decisions on the amount of land they should crop under the new tillage policy. Fields with heavy infestations could be cropped for a few years so tillage and herbicides could reduce infestations. The lower value of these has necessitated more frequent cropping and the use of more farmland area, intensifying the effects upon the catchment. The Court has already imposed an interim injunction against the cleared area being cropped. Farmers should have 30 per cent of their cropped area planted with legumes each season. Southeastern soils have been intensively cropped and are prone to drought and erosion. At this time the cropped areas expanded significantly, as did the number of people engaged in that activity. Virtually all land is double cropped, and many farmers cultivate three or four crops a year. Rising temperatures will make arable land available that's currently too cold for cropping. The rest has been left idle, used as grazing land, or intermittently cropped. And this over here, we bought this farm not long ago, and that hadn't been cropped that area down there, for 30 years. Land must be cropped in order to pay the bills. A mere 10 per cent of the land has been cropped. Cropland must meet cropping history criteria and be physically and legally capable of being cropped in a normal manner. In the case of crops at least 50% of the eligible area must be cropped each year - i.e. sown with a crop other than grass. Trials with rhodes, panic and seteria grasses in particular have proven successful in providing year round pastures in areas unsuitable for cropping. Phrasal Verbs crop out (of rock) appear or be exposed at the surface of the earth. Example sentencesExamples The Mesozoic rocks crop out only in the Zhaigang and Zhainan areas in the southeastern part of the county. The hinges of folded debris layers crop out on the glacier surface as flow-parallel medial moraines, with axes dipping gently up-glacier. The nature of the Lower Palaeozoic rocks which crop out in the peninsula therefore hold important evidence for the Caledonian evolution of the area. At the base of the erosional hollow, an inlier of Jurassic rocks crops out below the late Cimmerian unconformity. The Hammamat Group is a sequence of immature, clastic sedimentary rocks that crop out sporadically throughout the central and northern segments of the Eastern Desert of Egypt. In contrast, depositional landscapes predominate in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, where soft sedimentary rocks crop out near the southern limit of the ice sheet. Volcanic rocks that crop out in the mine area are part of the Portage Lake Volcanics and consist of thin lava flows and interbedded sedimentary rocks. The Dzhabyk batholith crops out along the entire surface trace of the profile. Basement rocks crop out along the entire La Hague peninsula in a number of fault-bounded blocks and as thin layers separated by intrusive Cadomian igneous bodies. Mafic volcanic rocks on this trend crop out on eastern King Island, with exposures including dykes, pillow lavas, volcaniclastic rocks and dolomites. crop up Appear, occur, or come to one's notice unexpectedly. some urgent business had cropped up Example sentencesExamples ‘I'm not one of these people who is trying to be modern’ is a phrase that crops up repeatedly. All the same, Lola crops up frequently in our discussions like a slightly eccentric but beloved foreign cousin. Bruce Springsteen was a name that often cropped up as a reference point. The key word here, which crops up throughout the report and the subsequent discussion, is ‘unwitting’. It's a condition most commonly found in women, but occasionally crops up in a man. If something crops up that interests me, whether it's here or overseas, then I'll look at it. It's a problem we've noticed before and it seems to crop up at random intervals. It is not something that crops up on a day to day basis in terms of business. Something crops up that just absolutely has to be sorted out face to face. So if 01788 crops up on your phone bill and you can't recall where that is, this site will reveal it is Rugby, Warwickshire. They monitor the radios and they are ready to go if anything unusual crops up. When talking to locals and expats, this topic often crops up. He crops up a couple of times almost at random. I've noticed little mistakes and typos cropping up here and there. Challenge is one word that crops up in Heather's conversation a lot. The book is also repetitive: the same old laundry list of sour complaints about the man, his works, and his cronies, crops up again and again. These predictions crop up every decade or so and they are always wrong. One theme that crops up week after week are those who hit their 5 or 6 month anniversary. Unless something unexpected crops up this year, this test looks like something a lot of us should try next year. The gender issue crops up in just about every walk of life. Synonyms happen, occur, arise, arrive, turn up, spring up, pop up, surface, emerge, materialize, appear, come to light, present itself, make an appearance Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf. From Old English to the late 18th century there existed a sense ‘flower head, ear of corn’, giving rise to crop (sense 1 of the noun) and senses referring to the top of something, whence crop (sense 4 of the noun). noun.1 phr.v.
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