The decade produced a wholecrop of ideas about space travel.
The university had an exceptionalcrop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes.
2024 June 26, Stephanie McNeal, “Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To”, inGlamour[1]:
And even ifAnna Wintour wanted to invite a freshcrop of internet talent, who would she choose? Can you name anyone in the past year who has ascended in a major way?
A group ofvesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
The patient had acrop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
1924, Harry Appleton Groesbeck Jr., “Preparation of Copy”, inThe Process and Practice of Photo-engraving[2], Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company,→OCLC, Indicating Sizes, page234:
This indicates to the engraver that the subject may be cropped to yield the size desired, but it is advisable that the position for thecrop also be determined and marked, else some essential feature of the copy may be cut off by arbitrary cropping to get the required size.
From an inner pocket he produces a costly Ramillies Wig, shakes it out in a brisk Cloud of scented Litharge, and claps it on, with a minimum of fuss, over his ascetic’sCrop.
A little bird sat on the edge of her nest; Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops; That day she had done her very best, And had filled every one of their littlecrops.
The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into itscrop.
2015 December,Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them.”, inNational Geographic[4], archived fromthe original on13 December 2015:
As the wildebeest shrinks, the circle of sated birds lounging in the short grass expands. With bulgingcrops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut.
(transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
(transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
1924, Harry Appleton Groesbeck Jr., “Preparation of Copy”, inThe Process and Practice of Photo-engraving[5], Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company,→OCLC, Indicating Sizes, page234:
Reduce to six inches wide andcrop to eight inches high.
1944 July, “WHAT ARE: Name These Enlarged Pictures”, inPopular Science[6], volume145, number 1,→ISSN, page168:
You'll see that when you enlarge a subject to many times its normal size, and thencrop the photo so there is nothing in proportion to be recognized, all resemblance to the original can be hidden.
1964, Proctor P. Taylor Jr., “Photographs”, inPreparing Contractor Reports for NASA: Technical Illustrating (NASA Special Publications;7008)[7], 2nd edition, Scientific and Technical Information Division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, published1967,→OCLC,NASA SP-7008, page18:
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