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English

Etymology

From Middle English severen, from Old French sevrer, from Latin separ?re (“to separate”), from se- (“apart”) + par?re (“provide, arrange”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?v.?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(r)

Verb

sever (third-person singular simple present severs, present participle severing, simple past and past participle severed)

1. (transitive) To cut free.

   • The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.

   • 1999, Eminem, Role Model

     That I just severed the main vein with a chainsaw and I'm in pain?

2. (intransitive) To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.
3. (intransitive) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.

   • The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt.
4. (law) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.

Synonyms

• becut
• cut off

Derived terms

• severable
• severally

Related terms

• separate

Translations

Further reading

• sever in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sever in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sever at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• 'verse, -verse, reves, serve, veers, verse

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin sev?rus.

Pronunciation

(Balearic) IPA^(key): /s??ve/

• (Central) IPA^(key): /s??be/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se?ve?/

Adjective

sever (feminine severa, masculine plural severs, feminine plural severes)

1. strict, severe

Derived terms

• severament

Related terms

• severitat

Further reading

• “sever” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sever” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sever” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sever” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?ver?. See also German Schauer or English shower (originally) ("Cold Rain").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?v?r]

Noun

sever m

1. north

Declension

Antonyms

• jih

Derived terms

• severní
• Severka
• severák
• seve?an
• severovýchod
• severozápad

Coordinate terms

• (compass points)

Further reading

• sever in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sever in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Interlingua

Adjective

sever (comparative plus sever, superlative le plus sever)

1. severe

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *s?far, from Proto-West Germanic *saifr.

Noun

sêver n

1. drool, saliva

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• sêveren

Descendants

• Dutch: zever
• Limburgish: zeiver

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “sever”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?fer/, [?s??fer]
• (Late Old Frisian) IPA^(key): /?se?wer/, [?s??wer]

Noun

s?ver m

1. Alternative form of s?ver

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28

Romanian

Etymology

From French sévère, from Latin severus.

Adjective

sever m or n (feminine singular sever?, masculine plural severi, feminine and neuter plural severe)

1. strict

Declension

Related terms

• severitate

Further reading

• sever in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): sj?ver
• (Ekavian): ??ver

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?ver?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sê?er/
• Hyphenation: se?ver

Noun

s?ver m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (uncountable) north

Declension

Antonyms

• (south): jug

Related terms

• severni

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?ver?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sever]

Noun

sever m (genitive singular severu, nominative plural severy, declension pattern of dub)

1. North

Derived terms

• severák
• Severan
• severne
• severný
• severovýchod
• severozápad

Further reading

• sever in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?ver?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sè???r/

Noun

s??ver m inan

1. north

Inflection

Derived terms

• séveren

Further reading

• “sever”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Turkish

Verb

sever

1. third-person singular present simple indicative positive degree of sevmek

Antonyms

• sevmez

See also

• sever sevmez

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kr?p, IPA^(key): /k??p/
• (General American) enPR: kräp, IPA^(key): /k??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Icelandic kroppur (“a hunch on the body”). Related to crap, doublet of group and croup.

Noun

crop (plural crops)

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

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

3. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.

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

5. The lashing end of a whip.
6. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
7. A rocky outcrop.
8. The act of cropping.
9. A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
10. A short haircut.

11. (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; a craw.
    • XIX c., George MacDonald, The Early Bird:

      A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;

      Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;

      Day-long she had worked almost without rest,

      And had filled every one of their gibbous crops;

    • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", 2005 Norton edition, page 221:

      The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.

    • 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[1]

      As the wildebeest shrinks, the circle of sated birds lounging in the short grass expands. With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut.

12. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
13. (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
14. (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
15. (mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

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16. An entire oxhide.

Synonyms

• (harvest): harvest, yield
• (whip used on horses): hunting crop, riding crop, whip, bat

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• gizzard

Etymology 2

From Middle English croppen (“to cut, pluck and eat”), from Middle English *croppian. Cognate with Scots crap (“to crop”), Dutch kroppen (“to cram, digest”), Low German kröppen (“to cut, crop, stuff the craw”), German kröpfen (“to crop”), Icelandic kroppa (“to cut, crop, pick”). Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1.

Verb

crop (third-person singular simple present crops, present participle cropping, simple past and past participle cropped)

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

   • I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.

2. (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
3. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
4. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
5. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
6. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

   to crop a field

Derived terms

• outcrop
• crop up

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on the crop of an animal
• Wikipedia article on riding crops
• Wikipedia article on cropping images

References

• crop at OneLook Dictionary Search
• crop in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Copr., Corp, Corp., RCPO, corp, corp., proc