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Cropping vs Propping - What's the difference?

cropping | propping |

As verbs the difference between cropping and propping

is that cropping is present participle of lang=en while propping is present participle of prop.

As nouns the difference between cropping and propping

is that cropping is 1905, Waldemar Lindgren, The Copper Deposits of the Clifton-Morenci District, Arizona (page 207 while propping is the act by which something is propped.

cropping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining)
  • * 1905 , Waldemar Lindgren, The Copper Deposits of the Clifton-Morenci District, Arizona (page 207)
    • Their croppings are either entirely barren or contain only a moderate amount of copper, but much richer ore is ordinarily found just above the chalcocite zone.
  • * 1912 , John Mason Boutwell, ?Lester Hood Woolsey, Geology and ore deposits of the Park City district, Utah (page 121)
    • The cropping of the Quincy ore-bearing bed, the equivalent of the Daly West bed, is stated to have been found at the east end of the present mine and just below the present wagon road.

    propping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is propped.
  • * 1904 , Kellogg Durland, Among the Fife Miners (page 62)
    • By certain arrangements in the former method the miner not only gets the coal but makes all proppings and repairs, so that the face moves much more slowly than with the other method where the hewers devote all their time to getting the coal