The difference between Crop and Riding crop

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 riding crop means a horsewhip, short whip used to goad a mount.


Crop is also verb with the meaning: to remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

check bellow for the other definitions of Crop and Riding crop

  1. 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"

  2. Crop as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "it was a good crop that year"

  3. Crop as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "a crop of ideas"

  4. Crop as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "Like in chicken pox."

  5. Crop as a noun:

    The lashing end of a whip

  6. Crop as a noun:

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

  7. Crop as a noun:

    A rocky outcrop.

  8. Crop as a noun:

    The act of cropping.

  9. Crop as a noun:

    A short haircut.

    Examples:

    "she kept her hair cropped"

  10. 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.

  11. Crop as a noun (architecture):

    The foliate part of a finial.

  12. 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.

  13. Crop as a noun (mining):

    Tin ore prepared for smelting.

  14. Crop as a noun (mining):

    Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  1. Crop as a verb (transitive):

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

  2. Crop as a verb (transitive):

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

  3. Crop as a verb (transitive):

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

  4. Crop as a verb (intransitive):

    To yield harvest.

  5. Crop as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to bear a crop.

    Examples:

    "to crop a field"

  1. Riding crop as a noun:

    A horsewhip, short whip used to goad a mount.

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