Definition of Crop

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Definition of Crop

Crop

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.

That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.

Grain or other product of the field while standing.

Anything cut off or gathered.

Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.

A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.

To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.

Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.

To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.

To yield harvest.

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Crop Quotations

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Ayn Rand

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Plato

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
Ansel Adams

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
Ovid

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
Ovid

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
Michael Pollan

Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.
Aishwarya Rai

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.
Jeremy Rifkin

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
Doug Coupland

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
Charles E. Wilson

Crop Translations

crop in German is Ernte
crop in Italian is raccolto
crop in Latin is proventus, messis, ingluvies
crop in Norwegian is avling
crop in Spanish is siega

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