Split vs Crop - What's the difference?
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(algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
A crack or longitudinal fissure.
A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
(leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
The acrobatic feat of spreading the legs flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor.
(baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
(bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard .75 liter bottle. Commercially comparable to 1/20th (US) gallon, which is 1/2 of a fifth.
A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.
(athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
(construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
(gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
(music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
(ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
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To share; to divide.
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to separate or break up.
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
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To burst out laughing.
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(slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
(sports) In athletics (esp. baseball), when both teams involved in a doubleheader each win one game and lose another game.
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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.
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(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.
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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.
Split is a related term of crop.
As a proper noun split
is a port city in croatia.As a noun crop is
a plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.As a verb crop is
to remove the top end of something, especially a plant.split
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Adjective
(split exact sequence) (-)- Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
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Derived terms
* split-shotNoun
(en noun)- He’s got a nasty split .
- In the 3000m race, his 800m split was 1:45.32
Verb
- a huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water
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- The ship splits on the rock.
- Each had a gravity would make you split .
- (Thackeray)
Derived terms
* side-splitting * split up (verb )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