crop

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɹɒp/    美 /kɹɑp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
    — The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?
  2. The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
    — It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!
  3. A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time. figuratively
    — The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.
  4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
    — The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
  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.
    — 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.
  10. A short haircut.
    — She went from a ponytail to a crop.
  11. A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
    — 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.
  12. The foliate part of a finial.
  13. The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree. archaic,dialectal
  14. Tin ore prepared for smelting.
  15. An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
  16. An entire oxhide.
  17. Marijuana. in-plural,slang
    — Cops, come and try to snatch my crops / These pigs wanna blow my house down
动词 v.
  1. To remove the top end of something, especially a plant. transitive
    — I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
  2. To mow, reap or gather. transitive
  3. To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short. transitive
    — And the knave who refuses to drink till he fall, / Why the hangman shall crop him — ears, love-locks, and all.
  4. To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better. transitive
    — Reduce to six inches wide and crop to eight inches high.
  5. To yield harvest. intransitive
  6. To cause to bear a crop. transitive
    — to crop a field
  7. To beat with a crop, or riding-whip. transitive
    — She cropped the horse into a comfortable canter and enjoyed the familiar rhythm and bounce of the horse's stride.

词形变化

crops plural crops present,singular,third-person cropping participle,present cropped participle,past cropped past

词汇关系

下位词
alley crop bumper crop cash crop catch crop county crop cover crop fallow crop food crop green crop money crop row crop sharecrop smother crop specialty crop standing crop stonecrop sunset crop trap crop truck crop white crop
衍生词
aftercrop alley crop anticrop bumper crop cash crop catch crop cover crop cream of the crop cream the crop cropbound crop circle crop-dust cropduster crop-dusting crop dusting cropful cropfull cropland croplands cropless croplike cropmark crop mark crop milk cropper croppie croppy cropraising crop rotation cropsick crop top Eton crop fallow crop food crop fruitcrop greencrop green crop hunting-crop hunting crop intercrop killcrop maincrop money crop monocrop neck and crop noncrop Norfolk crop rotation oilcrop pick of the crop profit crop riding crop sharecrop sharecropper single-crop smother crop specialty crop standing crop stonecrop subsistence crop sunset crop trap crop truck crop white crop crop-ear outcrop crop out croppable crop up miscrop overcrop recrop uncrop

词源

词源 1
From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Faroese and Icelandic kroppur (“body”). Related to crap. Doublet of group and croup.
词源 2
From Middle English croppen (“to cut, pluck and eat”), from Old English *croppian. Cognate with Scots crap (“to crop”), Dutch kroppen (“to cram, digest”), Low German kröppen (“to cut, crop, stuff the craw”), German kröpfen (“to crop”), Icelandic kroppa (“to cut, crop, pick”). Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1.
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