CROP (cropped, cropping)

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Irregular inflected forms: cropped    , cropping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does crop mean? 

• CROP (noun)
  The noun CROP has 6 senses:

1. the yield from plants in a single growing season

2. a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale

3. a collection of people or things appearing together

4. the output of something in a season

5. the stock or handle of a whip

6. a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

  Familiarity information: CROP used as a noun is common.

• CROP (verb)
  The verb CROP has 6 senses:

1. cut short

2. prepare for crops

3. yield crops

4. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

5. feed as in a meadow or pasture

6. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

  Familiarity information: CROP used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The yield from plants in a single growing season

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

crop; harvest

Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):

output; yield (production of a certain amount)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crop"):

fruitage (the yield of fruit)

Derivation:

crop (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of)

crop (yield crops)

crop (prepare for crops)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):

flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crop"):

cash crop (a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco))

catch crop (a crop that grows quickly (e.g. lettuce) and can be planted between two regular crops grown in successive seasons or between two rows of crops in the same season)

cover crop (crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure)

field crop (a crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes)

root crop (crop grown for its enlarged roots: e.g. beets; potatoes; turnips)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A collection of people or things appearing together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas

Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The output of something in a season

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores

Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):

end product; output (final product; the things produced)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The stock or handle of a whip

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)

Holonyms ("crop" is a part of...):

whip (an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

craw; crop

Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):

breadbasket; stomach; tum; tummy (an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion)

• CROP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they crop    ... he / she / it crops   
Past simple: cropped   
Past participle: cropped   
-ing form: cropping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut short

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

She wanted her hair cropped short

Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):

cut (shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Prepare for crops

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

crop; cultivate; work

Context example:

cultivate the land

Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):

fix; gear up; prepare; ready; set; set up (make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc)

Verb group:

knead; work (make uniform)

Domain category:

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crop"):

overcrop; overcultivate (to exhaust by excessive cultivation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

crop (the yield from plants in a single growing season)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Yield crops

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

This land crops well

Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):

bear; turn out (bring forth)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

crop (the yield from plants in a single growing season)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

crop; graze; pasture

Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Verb group:

browse; crop; graze; pasture; range (feed as in a meadow or pasture)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crop"):

grass (feed with grass)

drift (drive slowly and far afield for grazing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They crop the animals

Sense 5

Meaning:

Feed as in a meadow or pasture

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

browse; crop; graze; pasture; range

Context example:

the herd was grazing

Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):

eat; feed (take in food; used of animals only)

Verb group:

range (let eat)

crop; graze; pasture (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The animals crop

Sense 6

Meaning:

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

clip; crop; cut back; dress; lop; prune; snip; trim

Context example:

dress the plants in the garden

Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):

thin out (make sparse)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crop"):

shear (cut with shears)

poll; pollard (convert into a pollard)

pinch; top (cut the top off)

disbud (thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They crop the trees

Derivation:

crop (the yield from plants in a single growing season)

 Context examples 

The v-shaped ears fold forward when left natural or are cropped to a point and stand erect.

(Miniature Schnauzer, NCI Thesaurus)

Pests live where they are not wanted or cause harm to crops, people, or animals.

(Pesticides, Environmental Protection Agency)

Lindane is used as an insecticide for hardwood logs, lumber, and crops.

(Lindane, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by severe neuralgic pain along the distribution of the affected nerve and crops of clustered vesicles over the area.

(Herpes Zoster, NCI Thesaurus)

The research studied how other crops compare to rice when submerged in water.

(Grains in the rain, National Science Foundation)

Evidently the Munchkins were good farmers and able to raise large crops.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Travel for personal or business reasons was not easy either, so as you enter this month, you may need to smooth out difficulties that cropped up.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It is a small crop which we have gathered.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I thought it was great," he said hesitatingly, "the little I read. I had no idea he was such a—a scoundrel. I guess that crops out in his other books."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The science of soil cultivation, crop production, and livestock raising.

(Agriculture, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)