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crop | field |

As nouns the difference between crop and field

is that crop is a plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose while field is a land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.

As verbs the difference between crop and field

is that crop is to remove the top end of something, especially a plant while field is (sports) to intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.

crop

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) crop, croppe, from (etyl) crop, cropp, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • a crop of ideas
  • 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 :
    • 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 ;
  • * 1892 , , "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", 2005 Norton edition, page 221:
    • The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop .
  • (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.
    • (Knight)
    Synonyms
    * (harvest) harvest, yield * (whip used on horses) hunting crop, riding crop, whip, bat * (sense, animal's) craw (in birds)
    Related terms
    * crop duster * crop dusting * cropper * hunting crop * riding crop * sharecrop * sharecropper

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1.

    Verb

    (cropp)
  • To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
  • * Bible, Ezekiel xvii. 22
    • I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
  • 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.
    • to crop a field
    Derived terms
    * outcrop * crop up

    See also

    * * *

    Anagrams

    * *

    field

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
  • A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
  • * (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
    • fields which promise corn and wine
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields .”}}
  • The open country near or belonging to a town or city—usually used in plural.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields , in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • A physical phenomenon, such as force, potential, or fluid velocity, that pervades a region.
  • (senseid)A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10, author=Audrey Garric
    • , volume=188, issue=22, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Urban canopies let nature bloom , passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field .}}
  • An area that can be seen at a given time.
  • (senseid)A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • this glorious and well-foughten field
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • What though the field be lost?
  • An area reserved for playing a game.
  • A realm of practical, direct, or natural operation, contrasting with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
  • (senseid)(label) A commutative ring with identity for which every non element has a multiplicative inverse.
  • (label) A region containing a particular mineral.
  • (label) The background of the shield.
  • (label) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
  • A component of a database record in which a single unit of information is stored.
  • A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of characters.
  • The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
  • (label) The outfield.
  • An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
  • * (1800-1859)
    • afforded a clear field for moral experiments
  • All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.

    • Synonyms

    * (course of study or domain of knowledge) area, domain, sphere, realm * (area reserved for playing a game) course (for golf), court (for racquet sports), ground, pitch

    Hypernyms

    * (algebra) Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring

    Hyponyms

    * (algebra) ordered field, Pythagorean field

    Derived terms

    * center field * fieldwork * field marshal * field theory * finite field * field seam * infield * left field * number field * outfield * play the field * quadratic field * right field * scalar field * semantic field * splitting field * vector field

    Usage notes

    In the mathematical sense, some languages, such as French, use a term that literally means "body". This denotes a division ring or skew field, not necessarily commutative. If it is clear from context that the quaternions and similar division rings are irrelevant, or that all division rings being considered are finite and therefore fields, this difference is ignored.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
  • (baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
    • The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.
  • (sports) To place a team in (a game).
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 23 , author=Alasdair Lamont , title=Hearts 0-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=On balance, it was harsh on Hearts, who had given as good as they got against their more-fancied opponents, who, despite not being at full strength, fielded a multi-million pound team.}}
    The away team field ed two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
  • To answer; to address.
    • She will field questions immediately after her presentation.
  • To defeat.

    • Synonyms

    * * * address, answer, deal with, respond to

    Antonyms

    * (be the team throwing and catching the ball) bat

    See also

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * * *

    References

    * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=field&searchmode=none] - Etymology of "field"