Crop vs. Chop

Cropnoun

(agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

Cropnoun

The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.

Cropnoun

A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.

Cropnoun

A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease

Cropnoun

The lashing end of a whip

Cropnoun

An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.

Cropnoun

A rocky outcrop.

Cropnoun

The act of cropping.

Cropnoun

A short haircut.

Cropnoun

(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; a craw.

Cropnoun

(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.

Cropnoun

The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

Cropnoun

(mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.

Cropnoun

(mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

Cropverb

(transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

Cropverb

(transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.

Cropverb

(transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.

Cropverb

(intransitive) To yield harvest.

Cropverb

(transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

Cropnoun

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

Cropnoun

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

Cropnoun

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.

Cropnoun

Grain or other product of the field while standing.

Cropnoun

Anything cut off or gathered.

Cropnoun

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

Cropnoun

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

Cropnoun

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

Cropnoun

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.

Cropverb

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

Cropverb

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

Cropverb

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

Cropverb

to cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; - of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders.

Cropverb

To yield harvest.

Cropnoun

the yield from plants in a single growing season

Cropnoun

a collection of people or things appearing together;

Cropnoun

the output of something in a season;

Cropnoun

the stock or handle of a whip

Cropnoun

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

Cropverb

cut short;

Cropverb

prepare for crops;

Cropverb

yield crops;

Cropverb

let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

Cropverb

feed as in a meadow or pasture;

Cropverb

cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;

Cropnoun

a cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable

Cropnoun

an amount of produce harvested at one time

Cropnoun

an abundance of something, especially a person's hair

Cropnoun

the total number of young farm animals born in a particular year on one farm

Cropnoun

a group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time

Cropnoun

a hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short

Cropnoun

short for riding crop or hunting crop

Cropnoun

a pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion

Cropnoun

an organ resembling a pouch in an insect or earthworm.

Cropnoun

the entire tanned hide of an animal.

Cropverb

cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short

Cropverb

(of an animal) bite off and eat the tops of (plants)

Cropverb

cut the edges of (a photograph) in order to produce a better picture or to fit a given space

Cropverb

harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area

Cropverb

sow or plant (land) with plants that will produce food or fodder, especially on a large commercial scale

Cropverb

(of land or a plant) yield a harvest of plants or produce

Crop

A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. Crops may refer either to the harvested parts or to the harvest in a more refined state.

Chopnoun

A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.

Chopnoun

A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.

Chopnoun

(martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.

Chopnoun

Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.

Chopnoun

(poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.

Chopnoun

Termination, especially from employment.

Chopnoun

(dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.

Chopnoun

A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.

Chopnoun

A jaw of an animal.

Chopnoun

A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.

Chopnoun

The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.

Chopnoun

An official stamp or seal, as in China and India.

Chopnoun

A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.

Chopnoun

A license or passport that has been sealed.

Chopnoun

(internet) An IRC channel operator.

Chopverb

(transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

Chopverb

(transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.

Chopverb

(transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.

Chopverb

To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.

Chopverb

(poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players. en

Chopverb

(intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.

Chopverb

(intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.

Chopverb

(intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.

Chopverb

To remove the final character from (a text string).

Chopverb

(obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.

Chopverb

To chap or crack.

Chopverb

(nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.

Chopverb

To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.

Chopverb

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; - often with up.

Chopverb

To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; - usually with off or down.

Chopverb

To seize or devour greedily; - with up.

Chopverb

To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.

Chopverb

To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.

Chopverb

To interrupt; - with in or out.

Chopverb

To barter or truck.

Chopverb

To exchange; substitute one thing for another.

Chopverb

To purchase by way of truck.

Chopverb

To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.

Chopverb

To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.

Chopverb

To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.

Chopnoun

A change; a vicissitude.

Chopnoun

The act of chopping; a stroke.

Chopnoun

A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.

Chopnoun

A crack or cleft. See Chap.

Chopnoun

A jaw of an animal; - commonly in the pl. See Chops.

Chopnoun

A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.

Chopnoun

The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.

Chopnoun

Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.

Chopnoun

A permit or clearance.

Chopnoun

a small cut of meat including part of a rib

Chopnoun

a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball

Chopnoun

a grounder that bounces high in the air

Chopverb

cut into pieces;

Chopverb

move suddenly

Chopverb

strike sharply, as in some sports

Chopverb

cut with a hacking tool

Chopverb

hit sharply

Chopverb

cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife

Chopverb

remove something by cutting

Chopverb

cut through the base of (a tree or similar plant) with blows from an axe or other implement, in order to fell it

Chopverb

strike (something) with a short heavy blow, as if cutting at something

Chopverb

abolish or reduce the size of (something) in a way regarded as ruthless

Chopverb

change one's opinions or behaviour repeatedly and abruptly

Chopnoun

a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the hand

Chopnoun

a thick slice of meat, especially pork or lamb, adjacent to and often including a rib

Chopnoun

a person's share of something.

Chopnoun

crushed or ground grain used as animal feed

Chopnoun

the broken motion of water, owing to the action of the wind against the tide

Chopnoun

a trademark; a brand of goods.