Definition of "crop"

crop¹

/kɹɒp/

noun
plural crops
1. (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
2. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
3. (figurative) A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
5. The lashing end of a whip.
6. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
7. A rocky outcrop.
8. The act of cropping.
9. A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
  Quotations
  This indicates to the engraver that the subject may be cropped to yield the size desired, but it is advisable that the position for the crop also be determined and marked, else some essential feature of the copy may be cut off by arbitrary cropping to get the required size.
  1924, Harry Appleton Groesbeck Jr., “Preparation of Copy”, in The Process and Practice of Photo-engraving‎, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, Indicating Sizes, page 234
10. A short haircut.
  Quotations
  From an inner pocket he produces a costly Ramillies Wig, shakes it out in a brisk Cloud of scented Litharge, and claps it on, with a minimum of fuss, over his ascetic’s Crop.
  1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 227
11. (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
  Quotations
  A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;That day she had done her very best,And had filled every one of their little crops.
  1871, George MacDonald, “The Early Bird”, in At the Back of the North Wind‎
  The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.
  1892 January, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, London: George Newnes, […], published 1892 October 14, page 177
  As the wildebeest shrinks, the circle of sated birds lounging in the short grass expands. With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut.
  2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic‎, archived from the original on 13 December 2015
12. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
13. (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
14. (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
15. (mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
16. An entire oxhide.
17. (slang, in the plural) Marijuana.
  Quotations
  Cops, come and try to snatch my crops / These pigs wanna blow my house down
  1993, “Insane in the Brain”, in Black Sunday, performed by Cypress Hill

crop²

/kɹɒp/

verb
third-person singular simple present crops, present participle cropping, simple past and past participle cropped
1. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
  Quotations
  I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Ezekiel 17:22
2. (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
3. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
4. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
  Quotations
  Reduce to six inches wide and crop to eight inches high.
  1924, Harry Appleton Groesbeck Jr., “Preparation of Copy”, in The Process and Practice of Photo-engraving‎, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, Indicating Sizes, page 234
  You'll see that when you enlarge a subject to many times its normal size, and then crop the photo so there is nothing in proportion to be recognized, all resemblance to the original can be hidden.
  1944 July, “WHAT ARE: Name These Enlarged Pictures”, in Popular Science‎, volume 145, number 1, page 168
  Crop the photo for emphasis and composition.
  1964, Proctor P. Taylor Jr., “Photographs”, in Preparing Contractor Reports for NASA: Technical Illustrating (NASA Special Publications; 7008)‎, 2nd edition, Scientific and Technical Information Division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, published 1967, NASA SP-7008, page 18
5. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
6. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
7. (transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
  Quotations
  She cropped the horse into a comfortable canter and enjoyed the familiar rhythm and bounce of the horse's stride.
  2013, Mary Hart Perry, Seducing the Princess

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