cropped

Everyday

1. Cropped is the past form of crop: to cut something short, like hair or grass, or to cut off the edges of a picture. tree →
2. (adjective) Cropped clothes are cut short on purpose, such as a cropped top or cropped trousers. tree →
3. (adjective) Cropped hair is cut very short. tree →
4. (verb) If something cropped up, it appeared or happened suddenly, without being expected. tree →
5. Cropped can also mean bitten short by an animal eating grass, as a horse cropped the turf. tree →

In the lessons

In computing and art lessons pupils crop photos to cut off the parts they do not want. In everyday life it describes fashion and haircuts. In farming, a field that has been cropped has had crops grown or cut on it. The phrase «crop up» means a problem or chance that turns up suddenly.

Examples

• I cropped the photo so only my face showed. tree →
• She wore a cropped denim jacket. tree →
• His hair was cropped short for summer. tree →
• The sheep cropped the grass very close. tree →
• A problem cropped up, so we were late. tree →
• The field was cropped with wheat last year. tree →
• Your name cropped up when we were talking about the play. tree →
• Then he saw under a tree and waited, while his horse cropped the green turf. tree →

Note

Double the p: crop → cropped, cropping. «Crop up» is a phrasal verb: «Something cropped up». A crop (noun) is also a plant grown for food, like wheat; and a crop top is a short top. In computing, «crop» and «resize» are different: cropping cuts parts away, resizing makes the whole picture bigger or smaller.

In Jewish tradition

Ezekiel says an eagle cropped, or snapped off, the top twig of a cedar and carried it to a land of merchants.

Interpretation. It is read as a riddle about the king of Babylon taking Judah's king into exile. The tradition sees the eagle as a symbol of a foreign empire.

Examples

• He cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants. (Prophets EZK.17.4, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Double the p: crop → cropped, cropping. «Crop up» is a phrasal verb: «Something cropped up». A crop (noun) is also a plant grown for food, like wheat; and a crop top is a short top. In computing, «crop» and «resize» are different: cropping cuts parts away, resizing makes the whole picture bigger or smaller.