Crop vs. Harvest — 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.

Harvesting is the process of gathering a ripe crop from the fields. Reaping is the cutting of grain or pulse for harvest, typically using a scythe, sickle, or reaper.

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

The act or process of gathering a crop.

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

The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.

A hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short

The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season.

Short for riding crop or hunting crop

The time or season of such gathering

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

The result or consequence of an action

The entire tanned hide of an animal.

To gather (a crop)

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

To take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control.

Harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area

To extract from a culture or a living or recently deceased body, especially for transplantation

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

To gather a crop from (land, for example)

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

To receive or collect (energy)

A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time

To receive (the benefits or consequences of an action)

A short haircut.

To gather a crop.

An earmark on an animal.

The third season of the year; autumn; fall.

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

The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.

The stock of a whip.

The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.

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

The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.

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

(by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.

To cut or bite off the tops or ends of

(paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.

To cut (hair, for example) very short.

(transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.

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

To kill for meat, slaughter.

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

(intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest

To harvest

(transitive) To win, achieve a gain.

To cause to grow or yield a crop.

The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.

To feed on growing grasses and herbage.

That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.

To plant, grow, or yield a crop.

The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.

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

To reap or gather, as any crop.

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

The yield from plants in a single growing season

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

The consequence of an effort or activity;

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

The gathering of a ripened crop

The lashing end of a whip.

The season for gathering crops

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

Gather, as of natural products;

A rocky outcrop.

Remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation;

The act of cropping.

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

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.

(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.

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

An entire oxhide.

Marijuana.

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

(transitive) To mow, reap or gather.

(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.

(intransitive) To yield harvest.

(transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

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

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

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

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.

Grain or other product of the field while standing.

Anything cut off or gathered.

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

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

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.

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

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

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

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 yield harvest.

The yield from plants in a single growing season

A collection of people or things appearing together;

The output of something in a season;

The stock or handle of a whip

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

Cut short;

Prepare for crops;

Yield crops;

Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

Feed as in a meadow or pasture;

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;