Crops - English meaning

noun

A miscellaneous collection of things or people.

Usage examples:

The room was filled with an assortment of clothes

noun

A mixture or combination of different types

Usage examples:

"that’s dancing!" contains an assortment of musical numbers from famous hollywood films.

noun

A group of different types of something

Usage examples:

An assortment of vegetables, an unlikely assortment of rock stars and politicians attended the char…

noun

A person who cuts men's hair and shaves or trims beards as an occupation.

Usage examples:

He had his hair cut at the local barber's

verb

Cut or trim (a man's hair).

Usage examples:

His hair was neatly barbered

noun

A person whose job is cutting hair, esp. of men and boys

noun

A quantity or consignment of goods produced at one time.

Usage examples:

A batch of bread

verb

Arrange (things) in sets or groups.

Usage examples:

I had nothing to do but batch the reports

noun

A group of things or people dealt with at the same time or considered similar in type

Usage examples:

The cook brought in a fresh batch of homemade cupcakes., we looked at the job applications in two b…

noun

A slender hardy tree which has thin peeling bark and bears catkins. birch trees grow chiefly in northern temperate regions and yield hard, pale, fine-grained timber.

Usage examples:

Police want to identify areas where the western hemlock (tsuga heterophylla) and the birch tree gro…

verb

Beat (someone) with a bundle of birch twigs as a formal punishment.

Usage examples:

The school would attempt to birch them into submission

noun

A tree with a smooth, often white bark (= outer covering), or the wood of this tree

noun

The hollow jointed stem of a tall grass, especially bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem of a slender palm such as rattan.

Usage examples:

They brought the eggs back to constantinople in hollow canes.

verb

Beat with a cane as a punishment.

Usage examples:

Matthew was caned for bullying by the headmaster

noun

The long, hard, hollow stem of particular plants such as bamboo, sometimes used to make furniture or support other plants in the garden

noun

A small domesticated carnivorous mammal with soft fur, a short snout, and retractable claws. it is widely kept as a pet or for catching mice, and many breeds have been developed.

Usage examples:

Domestic cats may breed much more frequently, as often as 3 times a year, as they are not typically…

verb

Raise (an anchor) from the surface of the water to the cathead.

Usage examples:

I kept her off the wind and sailing free until i had the anchor catted

noun

Short for catalytic converter.

Usage examples:

Models fitted with a cat as standard

noun

A flexible or spring-loaded device for holding an object or objects together or in place.

Usage examples:

He undid two clips and lifted the lid

verb

Fasten or be fastened with a clip or clips.

Usage examples:

She clipped on a pair of diamond earrings

noun

An act of clipping or trimming something.

Usage examples:

I gave him a full clip

verb

Bring or gather together (a number of things).

Usage examples:

He went round the office collecting old coffee cups

adjective

(of a phone call) paid for by the person receiving it.

Usage examples:

A collect call

adverb

(with reference to making a phone call) in a way that is paid for by the person receiving it.

Usage examples:

I called my mother collect

noun

The action or process of collecting someone or something.

Usage examples:

The collection of data

noun

Money that people give for a special purpose, a person in need, or an organization

Usage examples:

We’re taking (up) a collection for his retirement gift (= getting money from people who want to giv…

noun

The act or job of taking something away from a place

Usage examples:

We will inform you when your goods are ready for collection., refuse/waste collection which public …

noun

The crop of a bird or insect.

Usage examples:

Life, when it landed here, arrived only through powerful stamina or spectacular accident: a fern's …

idiom

To make you angry

verb

Reduce the population of (a wild animal) by selective slaughter.

Usage examples:

He sees culling deer as a necessity

noun

A selective slaughter of animals.

Usage examples:

Fishermen are to campaign for a seal cull

verb

To collect parts or pieces of something to use for another purpose

Usage examples:

She went to strange lands to cull recipes for her book., to cull growing herds before they run out …

verb

Make an opening, incision, or wound in (something) with a sharp-edged tool or object.

Usage examples:

He cut his toe on a sharp stone

noun

A stroke or blow given by a sharp-edged implement or by a whip or cane.

Usage examples:

He could skin an animal with a single cut of the knife

verb

Separate with or as if with an instrument

verb

Disengage (something or part of something) and remove it.

Usage examples:

He detached the front lamp from its bracket

verb

To separate or remove something from something else that it is connected to

Usage examples:

Detach the lower half of the form and return it to the above address.

verb

To separate or remove something from something else that it is joined to

Usage examples:

Detach sth from sth detach the reply slip from this letter and return it to the above address.

noun

An enclosed area of water in a port for the loading, unloading, and repair of ships.

Usage examples:

The boat nosed up to a dock

verb

(of a ship) come into a dock and tie up at a wharf.

Usage examples:

The ship docked at southampton

noun

The solid bony or fleshy part of an animal's tail, excluding the hair.

Usage examples:

Jason grabbed the towels and spread them at the dog's tail and dock.

verb

Put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it.

Usage examples:

He was eating a hot dog

noun

Light food or snacks.

Usage examples:

These make great party eats

abbreviation

Tanzania (international vehicle registration).

phrasal verb

Be sustained by

phrasal verb

To increase because of something, or to use something to succeed or get advantages

Usage examples:

Fascism feeds off poverty.

noun

The woolly covering of a sheep or goat.

Usage examples:

As the sheep came on board, we grabbed their long shaggy fleeces

verb

Obtain a great deal of money from (someone), typically by overcharging or swindling them.

Usage examples:

The city's cab drivers are notorious for fixing fares and fleecing tourists

noun

The thick covering of wool on an animal, especially a sheep, or this covering used to make a piece of clothing

Usage examples:

Many farmers identify their sheep by painting their fleeces., the leicester longwool was bred to pr…

verb

Gather or collect (something, especially information or approval).

Usage examples:

The police struggled to garner sufficient evidence

noun

A granary.

Usage examples:

The upper floor also contains garners for storing unmalted and malted grain.

verb

To get or earn something valuable or respected, often with difficulty

Usage examples:

Coppola garnered several oscars for his movie, "the godfather."

verb

Come together; assemble or accumulate.

Usage examples:

As soon as a crowd gathered, the police came

noun

A part of a garment that is gathered.

Usage examples:

This can be accomplished at side seams, the center back seam, gathers, pleats, darts or a combinati…

verb

Assemble or get together

verb

Obtain (information) from various sources, often with difficulty.

Usage examples:

The information is gleaned from press cuttings

noun

A narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it.

Usage examples:

Their great pale grey slopes are breached all along the coast by a number of steep, rocky gorges wi…

verb

Eat a large amount greedily; fill oneself with food.

Usage examples:

They gorged themselves on cornish cream teas

noun

A deep, narrow valley with steep sides, usually formed by a river or stream cutting through rock

Usage examples:

The only way to cross the gorge was over a flimsy wooden bridge., [ t ] she sat in front of the tel…

noun

The passage by which food passes from the mouth to the stomach; the oesophagus.

Usage examples:

It's the gullet or oesophagus, the corridor passing from the mouth to the stomach.

noun

The tube that food travels down in the body from the mouth to the stomach

noun

The process or period of gathering in crops.

Usage examples:

Farmers work longer hours during the harvest

verb

Gather (a crop) as a harvest.

Usage examples:

After harvesting, most of the crop is stored in large buildings

noun

The activity or time of gathering a crop, or a crop that is gathered

Usage examples:

[ u ] we picked the corn that had been missed during harvest., [ c ] he had a large garden and love…

noun

An amount of food, air, or another substance taken into the body.

Usage examples:

Your daily intake of calories

noun

The amount of something such as food, breath, or a liquid that is taken in by someone or something

Usage examples:

The intake of fuel in a vehicle, a deep intake of breath

verb

Strike or beat with a whip or stick.

Usage examples:

They lashed him repeatedly about the head

noun

A sharp blow or stroke with a whip or rope.

Usage examples:

He was sentenced to fifty lashes for his crime

verb

A quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

verb

Cut off (a branch, limb, or twig) from the main body of a tree.

Usage examples:

They lopped off more branches to save the tree

noun

Branches and twigs lopped off trees.

Usage examples:

In many forests they took the lop and top, and in some cases the stump, of trees

verb

Hang loosely or limply; droop.

Usage examples:

A stomach that lopped over his belt

pronoun

A large number or amount; a great deal.

Usage examples:

There are a lot of actors in the cast

adverb

A great deal; much.

Usage examples:

He played tennis a lot last year

noun

A particular group or set of people or things.

Usage examples:

It's just one lot of rich people stealing from another

noun

The jaws or throat of a voracious animal.

Usage examples:

A gigantic wolfhound with a fearful, gaping maw

verb

Cut down (grass) with a machine.

Usage examples:

Mow the lawn a day or two before you go, so it stays looking tidy while you are away

noun

A stack of hay, corn, or other crop.

Usage examples:

A hay mow

noun

The part of the alimentary canal which connects the throat to the stomach. in humans and other vertebrates it is a muscular tube lined with mucous membrane.

Usage examples:

Inlet patch is a congenital anomaly of the cervical esophagus consisting of gastric mucosa.

noun

The tube in the body that takes food from the mouth to the stomach

verb

Trim (something) by cutting away its outer edges.

Usage examples:

Carlo pared his thumbnails with his knife

noun

Land covered with grass and other low plants suitable for grazing animals, especially cattle or sheep.

Usage examples:

Areas of rich meadow pasture

verb

Put (animals) to graze in a pasture.

Usage examples:

They pastured their cows in the water meadow

noun

Land covered with grass or similar plants suitable for animals, such as cows and sheep, to eat

Usage examples:

[ c ] the best places to find bluebirds are open pastures.

noun

The membrane-lined cavity behind the nose and mouth, connecting them to the oesophagus.

Usage examples:

As specialists, we visualise the pharynx and upper oesophagus with mirrors and a flexible laryngosc…

noun

The soft part at the top of the throat which connects the mouth and nose to the throat

verb

Detach and remove (a flower, fruit, or vegetable) from where it is growing.

Usage examples:

I went to pick some flowers for jenny's room

noun

An act or the right of selecting something from a number of alternatives.

Usage examples:

Take your pick from our extensive menu

noun

A tool consisting of a long handle set at right angles in the middle of a curved iron or steel bar with a point at one end and a chisel edge or point at the other, used for breaking up hard ground or rock.

Usage examples:

The newer combination entrenching tool added a pick, which helped break up hard soil.

verb

Take hold of (something) and quickly remove it from its place.

Usage examples:

She plucked a blade of grass

noun

Spirited and determined courage.

Usage examples:

It must have taken a lot of pluck to walk along a path marked ‘danger’

verb

To remove something, esp. with a sudden movement

Usage examples:

Astronauts plan to use the shuttle’s robot arm to pluck the satellite out of space., she plucked he…

noun

A plum preserved by drying and having a black, wrinkled appearance.

Usage examples:

However, just as raisins seem different from grapes, so do prunes appear to be distinct from plums.

verb

Trim (a tree, shrub, or bush) by cutting away dead or overgrown branches or stems, especially to encourage growth.

Usage examples:

Now is the time to prune roses

noun

An instance of trimming a tree, shrub, or bush.

Usage examples:

They need little care other than an annual prune

verb

Cut or gather (a crop or harvest).

Usage examples:

Many men were employed to reap the harvest

Get or derive

verb

Take (something) away or off from the position occupied.

Usage examples:

Customs officials removed documents from the premises

noun

A degree of remoteness or separation.

Usage examples:

At this remove, the whole incident seems insane

verb

Think deeply about something.

Usage examples:

We sat ruminating on the nature of existence

verb

To think slowly and carefully

Usage examples:

He ruminated over his loss.

noun

A whip used as an instrument of punishment.

Usage examples:

Begone, or shall i be required to chastise you with the whip and the scourge once more?

verb

Whip (someone) as a punishment.

Usage examples:

Our people did scourge him severely

noun

Someone or something that causes harm, evil, or destruction

Usage examples:

Smallpox, that scourge of previous generations, now is effectively extinct.

noun

The action or fact of carefully choosing someone or something as being the best or most suitable.

Usage examples:

Such men decided the selection of candidates

noun

The act of choosing, or the person or thing chosen

Usage examples:

[ c ] they performed a mix of old hits and selections from their new cd., [ c ] that bookstore has …

noun

The process of choosing someone or something from a group of people or things after careful thought

Usage examples:

The selection of sth/sb it is alleged that he tried to improperly influence the selection of a part…

verb

(of a man) cut the hair off the face with a razor.

Usage examples:

He washed, shaved, and had breakfast

noun

An act of shaving hair from the face or a part of the body.

Usage examples:

You need a shave

verb

Remove body hair with a razor

verb

Cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal).

Usage examples:

Paul has never sheared a sheep before

noun

A strain produced by pressure in the structure of a substance, when its layers are laterally shifted in relation to each other.

Usage examples:

The water from the upper source is emitted at the same speed as the main flow; there is thus no shear

noun

Cut or cut through with scissors

verb

Make or become shorter.

Usage examples:

He shortened his stride

verb

Make short or shorter

verb

To make something shorter in length, distance, or height

Usage examples:

I’d like to have this jacket shortened by about two inches., a high school knee injury probably sho…

verb

Cut (something) with scissors or shears, typically with small quick strokes.

Usage examples:

She was snipping a few dead heads off the roses

noun

An act of snipping something.

Usage examples:

He took a snip at a dandelion on the grass

verb

To cut something, usually with a few quick actions using scissors (= cutting device with two blades) or a similar device

Usage examples:

I asked the barber just to snip the ends of my hair.

noun

A thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut off a tree.

Usage examples:

Hayes picked up a fallen stick and twirled it idly between his fingers.

verb

Push a sharp or pointed object into or through (something).

Usage examples:

He stuck his fork into the sausage

verb

A long thin implement resembling a length of wood

verb

Make (something needed or wanted) available to someone; provide.

Usage examples:

The farm supplies apples to cider makers

noun

A stock or amount of something supplied or available for use.

Usage examples:

A farm with good water supply

adverb

Variant spelling of supplely (see supple).

noun

A device for making and breaking the connection in an electric circuit.

Usage examples:

The guard hit a switch and the gate swung open

verb

Change the position, direction, or focus of.

Usage examples:

The company switched the boats to other routes

verb

Device for making or breaking the connections in a circuit

phrasal verb

Provide with shelter

verb

To move something or someone from one place to another

Usage examples:

Please, take me with you!, it may rain, so take your umbrella., the suitcases were taken to madrid …

verb

To subtract one number or amount from another

Usage examples:

Take sth from sth you'll need to take $2,000 from the $8,000 to allow for tax., take sth/sb off (st…

noun

A narrow strip of leather or other material, used especially as a fastening or as the lash of a whip.

Usage examples:

A wooden ladder lashed together with leather thongs led into a hole into the ceiling above.

verb

Flog or lash with a whip.

noun

A light shoe, often made of rubber, consisting of a flat bottom attached to the foot by a narrow strap that fits between the big toe and the toe next to it

noun

The passage which leads from the back of the mouth of a person or animal.

Usage examples:

Her throat was parched with thirst

noun

The front of the neck, or the space inside the neck down which food and air can go

Usage examples:

A cop grabbed him around the throat., i have a sore throat., he cleared his throat and started spea…

noun

A device controlling the flow of fuel or power to an engine.

Usage examples:

The engines were at full throttle

verb

Attack or kill (someone) by choking or strangling them.

Usage examples:

She was sorely tempted to throttle him

noun

A device that controls how much fuel goes into an engine

Usage examples:

I’m so mad i could throttle him.

noun

A part of a monk's or priest's head left bare on top by shaving off the hair.

Usage examples:

His hair is thinning up there—soon he'll have a tonsure like a monk's

verb

Shave the hair on top of (a monk's or priest's head); give a tonsure to.

Usage examples:

Louis's half-brothers were tonsured and sent away to monasteries

noun

The top back part of a monk's head from which a circle of hair has been removed

verb

Make (something) neat or of the required size or form by cutting away irregular or unwanted parts.

Usage examples:

Trim the grass using a sharp mower

noun

Additional decoration, typically along the edges of something and in contrasting colour or material.

Usage examples:

A red blazer with gold trim

adjective

Neat and smart in appearance; in good order.

Usage examples:

His face was freshly shaved, his clothes neat and trim

noun

A strip of leather or length of cord fastened to a handle, used for flogging or beating a person or for urging on an animal.

Usage examples:

I wouldn't be surprised if they walked around their office wearing tight leather and vinyl with whi…

verb

Short for whipper-in.

noun

An instrument with a handle and a flexible lash