| query | If you c___ a photograph, you cut part of it off, in order to get rid of part of the picture or to be able to frame it.If you crop a photograph, you cut part of it off, in order to get rid of part of the picture or to be able to frame it. I decided to crop the picture just above the water line. Her husband was cropped from the photograph. |
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| word | crop |
| full-definition | noun Crops are plants such as wheat and potatoes that are grown in large quantities for food. Rice farmers here still plant and harvest their crops by hand. The main crop is wheat and this is grown even on the very steep slopes. The plants or fruits that are collected at harvest time are referred to as a crop . Each year it produces a fine crop of fruit. This year's corn crop should be about 8 percent more than last year. In the Middle Ages, years of crop failure were always followed by terrible disease. You can refer to a group of people or things that have appeared together as a crop of people or things. The present crop of books and documentaries about Marilyn Monroe exploit the thirtieth anniversary of her death. Some of this year's crop of graduates are on a fast-track recruitment scheme. A crop is a short hairstyle. She had her long hair cut into a boyish crop. verb When a plant crops, it produces fruits or parts which people want . Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly. When you crop something that you have planted, you collect the fruits or parts that you want from it. I started cropping my beans in July. When an animal such as a cow or horse crops leaves or plants, it eats them. I let the horse drop his head to crop the spring grass. To crop someone's hair means to cut it short. She cropped her hair and dyed it blonde. She had cropped grey hair. If you crop a photograph, you cut part of it off, in order to get rid of part of the picture or to be able to frame it. I decided to crop the picture just above the water line. Her husband was cropped from the photograph. |
| inflections | cropscroppingcroppedcropped |
| cefr-level | B2 |
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