| 单词 | crop |
| 释义 | crop —cropless, adj. /krop/, n. , v. , cropped or (Archaic) cropt; cropping. n. 1. the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop. 2. the yield of such produce for a particular season. 3. the yield of some other product in a season: the crop of diamonds. 4. a supply produced. 5. a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together: this year's crop of students. 6. the stock or handle of a whip. 7. Also called riding crop. a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash. 8. Also called craw. Zool. a. a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings. b. a chamber or pouch in the foregut of arthropods and annelids for holding and partly crushing food. 9. the act of cropping. 10. a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle. 11. a close-cropped hair style. 12. a head of hair so cut. 13. an entire tanned hide of an animal. 14. Mining. an outcrop of a vein or seam. v.t. 15. to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.). 16. to cut off the ends or a part of: to crop the ears of a dog. 17. to cut short. 18. to clip the ears, hair, etc., of. 19. Photog. to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative). 20. to cause to bear a crop or crops. 21. to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.): The sheep cropped the lawn. v.i. 22. to bear or yield a crop or crops. 23. to feed by cropping or grazing. 24. crop out, a. Geol. , Mining. to rise to the surface of the ground: Veins of quartz crop out in the canyon walls. b. to become evident or visible; occur: A few cases of smallpox still crop out every now and then. 25. crop up, to appear, esp. suddenly or unexpectedly: A new problem cropped up. [bef. 900; ME, OE: sprout, ear of corn, paunch, crown of a tree; c. G Kropf; see CROUP2] Syn. 1. CROP, HARVEST, PRODUCE, YIELD refer to the return in food obtained from land at the end of a season of growth. CROP, the term common in agricultural and commercial use, denotes the amount produced at one cutting or for one particular season: the potato crop. HARVEST denotes either the time of reaping and gathering, or the gathering, or that which is gathered: the season of harvest; to work in a harvest; a ripe harvest. PRODUCE esp. denotes household vegetables: Produce from the fields and gardens was taken to market. YIELD emphasizes what is given by the land in return for expenditure of time and labor: There was a heavy yield of grain this year. |
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