The difference between Crop and Yield
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 yield means payment.
When used as verbs, crop means to remove the top end of something, especially a plant, whereas yield means to pay, give in payment.
check bellow for the other definitions of Crop and Yield
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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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Yield as a verb (obsolete):
To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
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Yield as a verb:
To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
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Yield as a verb:
To give way; to allow another to pass first.
Examples:
"Yield the right of way to pedestrians."
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Yield as a verb:
To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
Examples:
"They refuse to yield to the enemy."
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Yield as a verb:
To give, or give forth, (anything).
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Yield as a verb (intransitive):
To give way; to succumb to a force.
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Yield as a verb:
To produce as return, as from an investment.
Examples:
"Historically, that security yields a high return."
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Yield as a verb (mathematics):
To produce as a result.
Examples:
"Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7."
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Yield as a verb (linguistics):
To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
Examples:
"Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-."
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Yield as a verb (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen):
To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
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Yield as a verb (rare):
To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
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Yield as a noun (obsolete):
Payment; tribute.
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Yield as a noun:
A product; the quantity of something produced.
Examples:
"Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit."
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Yield as a noun (law):
The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
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Yield as a noun (finance):
Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.