different between shear vs crop

English

Etymology

From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English s?ieran, from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeran?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Cognate with West Frisian skeare, Low German scheren, Dutch scheren, German scheren, Danish skære, Norwegian Bokmål skjære, Norwegian Nynorsk skjera, Swedish skära, Serbo-Croatian škare (“scissors”); and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek ????? (keír?, “I cut off”), Latin caro (“flesh”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear, cut”), harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???(?)/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)
• (US) IPA^(key): /?i?/
  • Rhymes: -i?
• (near–square merger) IPA^(key): /???/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: sheer, Shia

Verb

shear (third-person singular simple present shears, present participle shearing, simple past sheared or shore, past participle shorn or sheared)

1. To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
2. To remove the fleece from a sheep etc. by clipping.

3. To cut the hair of (a person)

4. (physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
5. (aviation, meteorology, intransitive) (of wind) To change in direction and/or speed.
6. (mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
7. (mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.
8. (Scotland) To reap, as grain.

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9. (figuratively) To deprive of property; to fleece.

Translations

Noun

shear (countable and uncountable, plural shears)

1. A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.

   Synonym: shears

   • short of their wool, and naked from the shear

2. (metalworking) A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
3. The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
   • 1837, William Youatt, Sheep: Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases

     After the second shearing, he is a two-shear ram; […] at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing.

4. (physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
5. (aviation, meteorology) Wind shear, or an instance thereof.

6. (mathematics) A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
7. (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.

Derived terms

• megashear
• shearer
• shearography
• shearwater
• wind shear

Translations

Adjective

shear

1. Misspelling of sheer.

Anagrams

• Asher, Rahes, Share, asher, earsh, hares, harse, hears, heras, rheas, sehar, sehra, share

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