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Crop vs Farming - What's the difference?

crop | farming |

As nouns the difference between crop and farming

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 farming is the business of cultivating land, raising stocks etc.

As verbs the difference between crop and farming

is that crop is to remove the top end of something, especially a plant while farming is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective farming is

pertaining to the agricultural business.

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

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    farming

    English

    Noun

  • The business of cultivating land, raising stocks etc.
  • * 1692 , John Quick, Synodicon in Gallia reformata
    • We discharge them also of all Farmings of Benefices, and Church Lands, or Goods, of which they were spoiled by those who Commanded under their General.

    Derived terms

    * firestick farming

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to the agricultural business.
  • Raising livestock or fish.

    • Verb

    (head)

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