Crop vs. Switch — 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.

In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another. The most common type of switch is an electromechanical device consisting of one or more sets of movable electrical contacts connected to external circuits.

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

A device for making and breaking the connection in an electric circuit

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

An act of changing to or adopting one thing in place of another

A hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short

A slender, flexible shoot cut from a tree.

Short for riding crop or hunting crop

A set of points on a railway track.

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

A tress of false or detached hair tied at one end, used in hairdressing to supplement natural hair.

The entire tanned hide of an animal.

Change the position, direction, or focus of

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

Beat or flick with or as if with a switch.

Harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area

An exchange or a swap, especially one done secretly.

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

A transference or shift, as of opinion or attention.

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

A device used to break or open an electric circuit or to divert current from one conductor to another.

A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time

A device consisting of two sections of railroad track and accompanying apparatus used to transfer rolling stock from one track to another.

A short haircut.

A slender flexible rod, stick, or twig, especially one used for whipping.

An earmark on an animal.

The bushy tip of the tail of certain animals

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

A thick strand of real or synthetic hair used as part of a coiffure.

The stock of a whip.

A flailing or lashing, as with a slender rod

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

To exchange

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

To shift, transfer, or divert

To cut or bite off the tops or ends of

To connect, disconnect, or divert (an electric current) by operating a switch.

To cut (hair, for example) very short.

To cause (an electric current or appliance) to begin or cease operation

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

(Informal) To produce as if by operating a control. Often used with on

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

To move (rolling stock) from one track to another; shunt.

To harvest

To whip with a switch, especially in punishing a child.

To cause to grow or yield a crop.

To jerk or swish abruptly or sharply

To feed on growing grasses and herbage.

To make or undergo a shift or an exchange

To plant, grow, or yield a crop.

To swish sharply from side to side.

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

A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.

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

A change or exchange.

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

A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.

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

A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.

The lashing end of a whip.

(musical instruments) rute.

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

(computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.

A rocky outcrop.

A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.

The act of cropping.

A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.

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

(telecommunication) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.

A short haircut.

(genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.

(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.

(BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.

(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.

(historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.

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

(card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.

(mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.

(transitive) To exchange.

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

(transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.

An entire oxhide.

To whip or hit with a switch.

Marijuana.

(intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.

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

To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.

(transitive) To mow, reap or gather.

To swing or whisk.

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

To be swung or whisked.

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

To trim.

(intransitive) To yield harvest.

To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.

(transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

(ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.

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

(snowboarding) Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.

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

Pertaining to skiing backwards.

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

A small, flexible twig or rod.

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.

A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.

Grain or other product of the field while standing.

A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.

Anything cut off or gathered.

A device for shifting an electric current to another circuit, or for making and breaking a circuit.

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

To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.

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

To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

To trim, as, a hedge.

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.

To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; - generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.

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

To shift to another circuit.

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

To walk with a jerk.

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

Control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit

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.

An event in which one thing is substituted for another;

To yield harvest.

Hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure

The yield from plants in a single growing season

Railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock

A collection of people or things appearing together;

A flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment

The output of something in a season;

A basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other

The stock or handle of a whip

The act of changing one thing or position for another;

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

Change over, change around, or switch over

Cut short;

Exchange or give (something) in exchange for

Prepare for crops;

Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another;

Yield crops;

Make a shift in or exchange of;

Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

Cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation;

Feed as in a meadow or pasture;

Flog with or as if with a flexible rod

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;

Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)