Crop vs. Chop — What's the Difference?

A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. Crops may refer either to the harvested parts or to the harvest in a more refined state.

Cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife

A cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable

Abolish or reduce the size of (something) in a way regarded as ruthless

A group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time

Change one's opinions or behaviour repeatedly and abruptly

A hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short

A downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the hand

Short for riding crop or hunting crop

A thick slice of meat, especially pork or lamb, adjacent to and often including a rib

A pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion

A person's share of something.

The entire tanned hide of an animal.

Crushed or ground grain used as animal feed

Cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short

The broken motion of water, owing to the action of the wind against the tide

Harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area

A trademark; a brand of goods.

Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group

To cut by striking with a heavy sharp tool, such as an axe

The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place

To shape or form by chopping

A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time

To cut into small pieces

A short haircut.

To reduce abruptly or by a large amount

An earmark on an animal.

(Sports) To hit or swing at (a pitched ball) with a short downward stroke.

A short whip used in horseback riding, with a loop serving as a lash.

To make heavy, cutting strokes.

The stock of a whip.

(Archaic) To move roughly or suddenly.

A pouchlike enlargement of a bird's gullet in which food is partially digested or stored for regurgitation to nestlings.

To change direction suddenly, as a ship in the wind.

A similar enlargement in the digestive tract of annelids and insects.

The act of chopping.

To cut or bite off the tops or ends of

A swift, short, cutting blow or stroke.

To cut (hair, for example) very short.

(Sports) A short downward stroke.

To clip (an animal's ears, for example).

A piece that has been chopped off, especially a cut of meat, usually taken from the rib, shoulder, or loin and containing a bone.

To trim (a photograph or picture, for example).

A short irregular motion of waves.

To harvest

An area of choppy water, as on an ocean.

To cause to grow or yield a crop.

The official stamp or seal of a government, company, or individual, especially in China.

To feed on growing grasses and herbage.

Quality; class

To plant, grow, or yield a crop.

A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.

(agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.

The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.

(martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.

(figurative) A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.

Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.

A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.

(poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.

The lashing end of a whip.

Termination, especially from employment; the sack.

An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.

A woodchopping competition.

A rocky outcrop.

(dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.

The act of cropping.

A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.

A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.

A jaw of an animal.

A short haircut.

A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.

(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.

The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.

(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.

An official stamp or seal, as in China and India.

The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.

(mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.

A license or passport that has been sealed.

(mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

A complete shipment.

An entire oxhide.

(internet) An IRC channel operator.

Marijuana.

(transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

(transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

(transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.

(transitive) To mow, reap or gather.

(transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.

(transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.

To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.

(transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.

(poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players. en

(intransitive) To yield harvest.

(intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.

(transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

(intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.

(transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.

(intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

To remove the final character from (a text string).

The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.

(obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.

That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.

To chap or crack.

Grain or other product of the field while standing.

(nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.

Anything cut off or gathered.

(obsolete) To twist words.

Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.

To converse, discuss, or speak with another.

A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; - often with up.

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; - usually with off or down.

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.

To seize or devour greedily; - with up.

To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.

To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.

Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.

To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.

To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.

To interrupt; - with in or out.

To cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; - of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders.

To barter or truck.

To yield harvest.

To exchange; substitute one thing for another.

The yield from plants in a single growing season

To purchase by way of truck.

A collection of people or things appearing together;

To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.

The output of something in a season;

To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.

The stock or handle of a whip

A change; a vicissitude.

A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

The act of chopping; a stroke.

Cut short;

A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.

Prepare for crops;

A crack or cleft. See Chap.

Yield crops;

A jaw of an animal; - commonly in the pl. See Chops.

Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.

Feed as in a meadow or pasture;

The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;

Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.

A permit or clearance.

A small cut of meat including part of a rib

A tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball

A grounder that bounces high in the air

Cut into pieces;

Move suddenly

Strike sharply, as in some sports

Cut with a hacking tool

Hit sharply