Grass vs Crop - What's the difference?
grass | crop |
(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
*
, title= (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
(uncountable) A lawn.
(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
(countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
(uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
The season of fresh grass; spring.
* Latham
(obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
* Bible Is. xl. 7
To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
* 1893 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:
(transitive, or, intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
To cover with grass or with turf.
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
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.
In transitive terms the difference between grass and crop
is that grass is to bring to the grass or ground; to land while crop is to cause to bear a crop.As a proper noun Grass
is {{surname|lang=en}.grass
English
(wikipedia grass)Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
- two years old next grass
- Surely the people is grass .
Synonyms
* ''Gramineae (alternative name)Derived terms
* grasshopper * grass widow * grassy * lemongrass * ryegrass * supergrassSee also
* (Poaceae) *Verb
(es)- He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
- to grass a fish
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
