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Definition: Cropped |
CroppedAdjective1. Cut off as by clipping or biting off; "trees with cropped tops"; "cropped hedges"; "her short cropped hair"; "the cropped grass where sheep had browsed". 2. (of land or soil) used for growing crops; "cropped soil". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cropped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Antonym: uncropped (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cropped |
| English words defined with "cropped": bootboys ♦ crew cut, crop, Crop-ear, Crop-eared, Crop-tailed, cut short ♦ Decerptible ♦ green ♦ pinscher, Polled, putting green ♦ Rowen ♦ skinheads. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cropped": billiard cloth ♦ imaging model ♦ share-farmed agricultural area. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cropped": Decerptible. (references) |
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 | At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 15 August 1942. Barge in the far right distance is YF-380. This image is cropped from Photo # 19-N-33052. Credit: NAVY. |  | Painting by De Simone, depicting the ship underway in the Bay of Naples, Italy, in 1878. This view is cropped from Photo # NH 53730. Credit: NAVY. |
 | These ships are (from left to right): USS Badger (DD-126); USS Claxton (DD-140); USS Philip (DD-76); USS Broome (DD-210); and the stricken Corry (ex DD-334), which is being scrapped. This view is cropped from Photo # NH 70793. Credit: NAVY. |  | Steams past the transport area between Guadalcanal and Tulagi on 8 August 1942, the day after U.S. Marines landed at both places. This view is cropped from Photo # 80-G-34683. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Mounted on the Mark 37 Gun Director of USS McCalla, 5 January 1944. This image is cropped from a photograph of the ship's forward superstructure, taken while she was at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California. Note the Japanese flags painted on the gun director. Credit: NAVY. |  | Image cropped from a group photograph. Hospital Corpsman Second Class David R. Ray was awarded the Medal of Honor, posthumously, for heroism while serving in the Republic of Vietnam. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu maneuvering during a high-level bombing attack by USAAF B-17 bombers, shortly after 8AM, 4 June 1942. Note ship's flight deck markings, including Katakana identification character "hi" on her after flight deck. This image is cropped from USAF Photo # 3725 AC. Credit: NAVY. |  | Reconnaissance photograph, probably taken by the British Royal Air Force, showing the ship (marked by arrow) moored to the shore in the Fætten Fjord, about 30 KM ENE of Trondheim, Norway, 19 July 1942. Note rafts and netting used to camouflage the ship, and anti-torpedo booms moored to protect her from attacks from abeam and astern. Booms abeam have been folded to similate a ship. This image is cropped from Photo # NH 98269. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Off Cairo or Mound City, Illinois, circa 1862-63. She became a U.S. Army Transport in December 1862. Mast in foreground is on USS General Bragg, the main subject of the photograph ( Photo # NH 46642) from which this image has been cropped. Credit: NAVY. |  | On board USS Iowa (Battleship # 4), 1906. Cropped from Photo # NH 97948. Others present include (as numbered and identified on the original print): 13. Surgeon Moulton K. Johnson; 14. Lieutenant Duncan M. Wood; 15. Lieutenant George K. Pettengill; 16. Ensign David A. Weaver; 21. unidentified Warrant Officer; 23. Boatswain John P. Judge. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Flagcar cropped" by Loretta Humble Commentary: "I just learned how to crop, okay? Hope this is still big enough." | "Sisters" by Gavin Mealing Commentary: "Close cropped portrait of two sisters smiling and being happy." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | His hair was cropped and washed, his chin clean shaven |
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Economic History | Bangladesh | Land--cultivable area cropped at rate of 176% in 1997; largely subsistence farming dependent on monsoonal rainfall, but growing commercial farming and increasing use of irrigation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cropped" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 35.53% of the time. "Cropped" is used about 197 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 35.53% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 32.49% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 30.96% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.02% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 197 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cropped": closely cropped ♦ have one's hair cropped. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cropped": cropped-hair. | |
Ending with "cropped": sheep-cropped, short-cropped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cropped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | на голо (closely cropped). (various references) | |
Chinese | 播种 (inseminate, inseminated, seeded, Seeding, Sowed, Sowing, sown). (various references) | |
Danish | valsetraaden skal vaere lunkerfri og skal leveres passende afklippet i mindst den ene ende (wire rod must not show shrink holes and must be delivered properly cropped at least at one end), opdyrket jord (cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land), dyrkningsareal (cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land), dyrket land (cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land), agerland (cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land). (various references) | |
Dutch | cultuurgrond (cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land), walsdraad mag geen resten van gietfouten bevatten en moet aan ten minste één uiteinde op passende wijze zijn afgezaagd (wire rod must not show shrink holes and must be delivered properly cropped at least at one end), bebouwde grond (cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land), bebouwd land (cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land). (various references) | |
Finnish | lyhyeksi leikattu (closely cropped, short). (various references) | |
French | tondu. (various references) | |
German | bebaut (cultivates, tills), abgeschnitten (cut, incommunicado, isolated). (various references) | |
Greek | καλλιεργήσιμες γαίες (cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land), καλλιεργήσιμος γή (arable soil, cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land, topsoil), αρόσιμο έδαφος (cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land). (various references) | |
Italian | terreno dissodato (cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land), terreno coltivato (arable lands, cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land, plough lands, tilled lands), terra coltivata (cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land), superficie coltivata (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cropped land, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, cultivated land, land under crop), rapare (crop, have one's hair cropped), la vergella non deve presentare tracce del cono di ritiro e deve essere fornita convenientemente spuntata almeno ad una estremita' (wire rod must not show shrink holes and must be delivered properly cropped at least at one end), area coltivata (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land, land under crop). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 坊主刈り (closely cropped hair), 散切り頭 (cropped head), クロス商い (chloromycetin, chromatography, chromium, chronicle, chrono, chronobiology, chronograph, chronometer, chronoscope, clock, clomiphene, closet, crocus, Cro-Magnon, cropped pants, croquet, cross trade, crossing zone, Kronecker, Kronecker delta). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ざんぎりあたま (cropped head), ぼうずがり (closely cropped hair), クロップドパンツ (cropped pants). (various references) | |
Korean | 수확하는 (Reaped). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oppedcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | o fio laminado não deve apresentar rechupe e deve ser fornecido convenientemente despontado numa extremidade pelo menos (wire rod must not show shrink holes and must be delivered properly cropped at least at one end). (various references) | |
Russian | коротко остриженный (close cropped, close-cropped). (various references) | |
Scottish | lom (a plain, bald, bare, bare surface, cropped : air lom, into view, pl. luim, shaven). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kratko potšišan (close-cropped, closely cropped). (various references) | |
Spanish | tierra cultivada (cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land), el alambrón no debe presentar rechupes y debe suministrarse bien despuntado por lo menos en un extremo (wire rod must not show shrink holes and must be delivered properly cropped at least at one end). (various references) | |
Swedish | kortklippt (bobbed, close-cropped, closely cropped, Cutty). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Ezekiel Chapter 17, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ta akra thV apalothtoV apeknisen kai hnegken auta eiV ghn canaan eiV polin teteicismenhn eqeto auta |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Summitatem frondium eius avellit et transportavit eam in terram Chanaan in urbem negotiatorum posuit illam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | He drowy of the heiynes of his bouwis, or braunches, and bare it ouer ` in to the loond of Canaan; in the citee of marchauntis he puttide it. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | He cropped off the top of its young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders. |
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| Language | Ezekiel Chapter 17, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | Iyang giputol ang labing tumoy sa linghod nga mga sanga niana ug iyang gidala ngadto sa yuta sa patigayon; iyang gipahimutang kana sa usa ka ciudad sa mga magpapatigayon. |
| Croatian | odlomi mu najvišu granèicu, odnese je u zemlju trgovaca i spusti je u grad prodavaèa. |
| Danish | Spidsen af dens Skud brød den af, bragte den til et Kræmmerland og satte den i en Handelsby. |
| Dutch | Hij plukte den top van zijn jonge takjes af, en bracht hem in een land van koophandel; hij zette hem in een stad van kooplieden. |
| Finnish | Hän taittoi siitä latvalehvän ja vei sen kauppiasten maahan, asetti sen kauppurien kaupunkiin. |
| French | Il arracha le plus élevé de ses rameaux, l`emporta dans un pays de commerce, et le déposa dans une ville de marchands. |
| German | und brach das oberste Reis ab und führte es ins Krämerland und setzte es in die Kaufmannstadt. |
| Hungarian | Gyönge ágainak hegyét letépte, és vivé azt a kalmárok földére, az árusok városában tevé le. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | lalu membawanya dan meletakkannya di kota dagang yang ramai. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pucuk yang kepala sekali digentasnya, lalu dibawanya akan dia kepada suatu negeri perniagaan, ditaruhnya akan dia di dalam suatu negeri orang saudagar-saudagar. |
| Maori | Katohia ana e ia te pito o ona manga ngawari, kawea ana ki te whenua hokohoko, waiho iho e ia i te pa o nga kaihokohoko. |
| Portuguese | arrancou a ponta mais alta dos seus, raminhos, e a levou a uma terra de comércio; e a pôs numa cidade de comerciantes. |
| Rumanian | A rupt ramura cea mai knaltq a lui, a dus -o kntr`o yarq de negoy, wi a pus -o kntr`o cetate de negustori; |
| Russian | УПТЧБМ ЧЕТИОЙК ЙЪ НПМПДЩИ РПВЕЗПЧ ЕЗП Й РТЙОЕУ ЕЗП Ч ЪЕНМА иБОББОУЛХА, Ч ЗПТПДЕ ФПТЗПЧГЕЧ РПМПЦЙМ ЕЗП; |
| Swedish | Han bröt av dess översta kvist och förde den till krämarlandet och satte den i en köpmansstad. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "cropped": intercropped, outcropped, overcropped, sharecropped, uncropped. (additional references) | |
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"Cropped" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crappen, cropt, Cryospeed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cropped" (pronounced krÄ"pt) |
| 4 | -r Ä" p t | dropped, propped. |
| 3 | -Ä" p t | adopt, chopped, copped, flopped, hopped, lopped, mopped, opt, plopped, popped, shopped, stopped, swapped, topped. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-o-p-p-r" | |
-1 letter: copped, copper. | |
-2 letters: coder, coped, coper, cored, credo, decor, doper, pedro, pored, roped. | |
-3 letters: cero, code, coed, cope, cord, core, crop, deco, doer, dope, dore, dorp, drop, oped, pepo, perp, pope, pore, prep, prod, prop, redo, repo, repp, rode, rope. | |
-4 letters: cep, cod, cop, cor, doc, doe, dor, ode, ope, orc, ore, pec, ped. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-o-p-p-r" | |
+1 letter: coppered. | |
+2 letters: choppered, uncropped. | |
+3 letters: approached, clodhopper, coappeared, copperhead, outcropped, prospected. | |
+4 letters: backdropped, clodhoppers, copperheads, crowstepped, dipterocarp, overcropped, precomputed, preoccupied, woodchopper. | |
+5 letters: carrottopped, dipterocarps, intercropped, paedomorphic, preprocessed, propaedeutic, sharecropped, woodchoppers. | |
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