Clip vs. Crop — What's the Difference?

A flexible or spring-loaded device for holding an object or objects together or in place

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.

A metal holder containing cartridges for an automatic firearm

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

An act of clipping or trimming something

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

A short sequence taken from a film or broadcast

A hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short

A smart or glancing blow

Short for riding crop or hunting crop

A specified speed or rate of movement, especially when rapid

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

Fasten or be fastened with a clip or clips

The entire tanned hide of an animal.

Cut short or trim (hair, vegetation, etc.) with shears or scissors

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

Strike smartly or with a glancing blow

Harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area

Swindle or rob

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

Move quickly

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

To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears

A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time

To make shorter by cutting; trim

A short haircut.

To cut off the edge of

An earmark on an animal.

To cut short; curtail.

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

To shorten (a word or words) by leaving out letters or syllables.

The stock of a whip.

To enunciate with clarity and precision

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

(Informal) To hit with a sharp blow

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

(Football) To block (an opponent) illegally from the rear.

To cut or bite off the tops or ends of

(Sports) To hit or kick (the ball) in a certain direction.

To cut (hair, for example) very short.

(Slang) To cheat, swindle, or rob.

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

To cut something.

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

(Informal) To move rapidly.

To harvest

To fasten with or as if with a clip; hold tightly.

To cause to grow or yield a crop.

(Archaic) To embrace or encompass.

To feed on growing grasses and herbage.

The act of clipping.

To plant, grow, or yield a crop.

The wool shorn at one shearing, as of sheep.

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

A season's shearing.

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

A short extract from a movie or television program.

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

(Informal) A quick sharp blow

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

(Football) An illegal block from the rear.

The lashing end of a whip.

(Informal) A pace or rate

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

A single occasion; a time

A rocky outcrop.

Clips A pair of shears or clippers.

The act of cropping.

Any of various devices for gripping or holding things together; a clasp or fastener.

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

A piece of jewelry that fastens with a clasp or clip, such as an earring or a brooch.

A short haircut.

A cartridge clip.

(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.

To grip tightly.

(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.

To fasten with a clip.

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

(archaic) To hug, embrace.

(mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.

(slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

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

To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.

An entire oxhide.

To curtail; to cut short.

Marijuana.

To strike with the hand.

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

To hit or strike, especially in passing.

(transitive) To mow, reap or gather.

(American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.

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

(signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.

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

(computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.

(intransitive) To yield harvest.

To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).

(transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

To cheat, swindle, or fleece.

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

To grab or take stealthily

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

Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.

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

An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.

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.

(obsolete) An embrace.

Grain or other product of the field while standing.

(military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.

Anything cut off or gathered.

A removable magazine of a firearm.

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

A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.

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

A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.

The product of a single shearing of sheep.

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

A season's crop of wool.

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

A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video

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

A newspaper clipping.

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 act of clipping, such as a haircut.

To yield harvest.

The condition of something, its state.

The yield from plants in a single growing season

(informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)

A collection of people or things appearing together;

To embrace, hence; to encompass.

The output of something in a season;

To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.

The stock or handle of a whip

To curtail; to cut short.

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

To move swiftly; - usually with indefinite it.

Cut short;

An embrace.

Prepare for crops;

A cutting; a shearing.

Yield crops;

The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.

Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.

Feed as in a meadow or pasture;

An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;

A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; - called also toe clip and beak.

A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.

A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.

A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.

A rapid gait.

A metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun

An instance or single occasion for some event;

Any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together

An article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress

The act of clipping or snipping

A sharp slanting blow;

Sever or remove by pinching or snipping;

Run at a moderately swift pace

Attach with a clip;

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;

Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent;