Chopped vs Cropped - What's the difference?
chopped | cropped |
Cut or diced into small pieces.
* 2003 , Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living , Sasquatch Books. ISBN 9781570613777, page
(chiefly, of meat) Ground, having been processed by grinding.
(automotive, slang) Having a vehicle's height reduced by horizontal trimming of the roofline.
* 1958 , Charles Beaumont and William F. Nolan, Omnibus of Speed: An Introduction to the World of Motor Sport , Putnam, page
(slang) High on drugs.
(slang) Fired]] from a job or cut from a team or training program; having [[get the chop, got the chop.
(chop)
(crop)
A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
The lashing end of a whip
An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
A rocky outcrop.
The act of .
A short haircut.
(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.
* XIX c. , George MacDonald, The Early Bird :
* 1892 , , "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", 2005 Norton edition, page 221:
(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
(archaic, or, dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
(mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
(mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
* Bible, Ezekiel xvii. 22
To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
To yield harvest.
To cause to bear a crop.
As verbs the difference between chopped and cropped
is that chopped is past tense of chop while cropped is past tense of crop.As an adjective chopped
is cut or diced into small pieces.chopped
English
Adjective
(en adjective)288:
- Brown meat with chopped onions, chopped or ground garlic, chopped celery, and chopped bell pepper.
183:
- He later bought a '33 Ford coupe, chopped and channeled it and installed a Mercury engine.
Verb
(head)cropped
English
Verb
(head)crop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crop, croppe, from (etyl) crop, cropp, .Noun
(en noun)- a crop of ideas
- A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;
- Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;
- Day-long she had worked almost without rest,
- And had filled every one of their gibbous crops ;
- The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop .
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* (harvest) harvest, yield * (whip used on horses) hunting crop, riding crop, whip, bat * (sense, animal's) craw (in birds)Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1.Verb
(cropp)- I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
- to crop a field
