The difference between Crop and Curtail
When used as nouns, crop means a plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose, whereas curtail means a scroll termination, as of a step, etc.
When used as verbs, crop means to remove the top end of something, especially a plant, whereas curtail means to cut short the tail of an animal.
check bellow for the other definitions of Crop and Curtail
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Crop as a noun (agriculture):
A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
Examples:
"the farmer had lots of crops to sell at the market"
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Crop as a noun:
The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
Examples:
"it was a good crop that year"
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Crop as a noun:
A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
Examples:
"a crop of ideas"
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Crop as a noun:
A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease
Examples:
"Like in chicken pox."
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Crop as a noun:
The lashing end of a whip
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Crop as a noun:
An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
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Crop as a noun:
A rocky outcrop.
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Crop as a noun:
The act of cropping.
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Crop as a noun:
A short haircut.
Examples:
"she kept her hair cropped"
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Crop as a noun (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.
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Crop as a noun (architecture):
The foliate part of a finial.
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Crop as a noun (archaic, or, dialect):
The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
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Crop as a noun (mining):
Tin ore prepared for smelting.
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Crop as a noun (mining):
Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knight"
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Crop as a verb (transitive):
To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
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Crop as a verb (transitive):
To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
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Crop as a verb (transitive):
To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
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Crop as a verb (intransitive):
To yield harvest.
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Crop as a verb (transitive):
To cause to bear a crop.
Examples:
"to crop a field"
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Curtail as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To cut short the tail of an animal
Examples:
"Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair."
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Curtail as a verb (transitive):
To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
Examples:
"When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech."
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Curtail as a verb (transitive, figuratively):
To limit or restrict, keep in check.
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Curtail as a noun (architecture):
A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.