Clip vs. Crop — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Clip and Crop
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Definitions
Clip
A flexible or spring-loaded device for holding an object or objects together or in place
He undid two clips and lifted the lid
A gilt clip fastened her hair
Crop
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.
Clip
A metal holder containing cartridges for an automatic firearm
He shot twice, but his clip was empty
Crop
A cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable
The main crops were oats and barley
Clip
An act of clipping or trimming something
I gave him a full clip
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Crop
A group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time
The current crop of politicians
Clip
A short sequence taken from a film or broadcast
Clips from earlier shows
A film clip
Crop
A hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short
She has her hair cut in a short crop
Clip
A smart or glancing blow
I'd give him a clip round the ear
Crop
Short for riding crop or hunting crop
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Clip
A specified speed or rate of movement, especially when rapid
We crossed the dance floor at an amazingly fast clip
Crop
A pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion
The parent waxbill partially digests food in its crop
Clip
Fasten or be fastened with a clip or clips
She clipped on a pair of diamond earrings
The panels simply clip on to the framework
Crop
The entire tanned hide of an animal.
Clip
Cut short or trim (hair, vegetation, etc.) with shears or scissors
I was clipping the hedge
Crop
Cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short
She cropped her long golden hair
Clip
Strike smartly or with a glancing blow
The car clipped the kerb
He'll clip your ear
Crop
Harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area
Hay would have been cropped several times through the summer
Clip
Swindle or rob
In all the years he ran the place, he was clipped only three times
Crop
Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group
Wheat is a common crop.
Clip
Move quickly
We clip down the track
Crop
The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place
An orchard that produced a huge crop of apples last year.
Clip
To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears
Clip coupons.
Clipped three seconds off the record.
Crop
A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time
A crop of new ideas.
Clip
To make shorter by cutting; trim
Clip a hedge.
Crop
A short haircut.
Clip
To cut off the edge of
Clip a coin.
Crop
An earmark on an animal.
Clip
To cut short; curtail.
Crop
A short whip used in horseback riding, with a loop serving as a lash.
Clip
To shorten (a word or words) by leaving out letters or syllables.
Crop
The stock of a whip.
Clip
To enunciate with clarity and precision
Clip one's words.
Crop
A pouchlike enlargement of a bird's gullet in which food is partially digested or stored for regurgitation to nestlings.
Clip
(Informal) To hit with a sharp blow
Clipped me under the eye.
Crop
A similar enlargement in the digestive tract of annelids and insects.
Clip
(Football) To block (an opponent) illegally from the rear.
Crop
To cut or bite off the tops or ends of
Crop a hedge.
Sheep cropping grass.
Clip
(Sports) To hit or kick (the ball) in a certain direction.
Crop
To cut (hair, for example) very short.
Clip
(Slang) To cheat, swindle, or rob.
Crop
To clip (an animal's ears, for example).
Clip
To cut something.
Crop
To trim (a photograph or picture, for example).
Clip
(Informal) To move rapidly.
Crop
To harvest
Crop salmon.
Clip
To fasten with or as if with a clip; hold tightly.
Crop
To cause to grow or yield a crop.
Clip
(Archaic) To embrace or encompass.
Crop
To feed on growing grasses and herbage.
Clip
The act of clipping.
Crop
To plant, grow, or yield a crop.
Clip
The wool shorn at one shearing, as of sheep.
Crop
(agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
The farmer had a nice crop of corn.
Clip
A season's shearing.
Crop
The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
It was a good crop of oats that year.
Clip
A short extract from a movie or television program.
Crop
(figurative) A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.
The university had an exceptional crop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes.
Clip
(Informal) A quick sharp blow
A clip on the ear.
Crop
A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
Clip
(Football) An illegal block from the rear.
Crop
The lashing end of a whip.
Clip
(Informal) A pace or rate
Go at a fast clip.
Crop
An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
Clip
A single occasion; a time
Could write nine pages at a clip.
Crop
A rocky outcrop.
Clip
Clips A pair of shears or clippers.
Crop
The act of cropping.
Clip
Any of various devices for gripping or holding things together; a clasp or fastener.
Crop
A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
Clip
A piece of jewelry that fastens with a clasp or clip, such as an earring or a brooch.
Crop
A short haircut.
She went from a ponytail to a crop.
Eton crop
Clip
A cartridge clip.
Crop
(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.
Clip
To grip tightly.
Crop
(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
Clip
To fasten with a clip.
Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
Crop
The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
Clip
(archaic) To hug, embrace.
Crop
(mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
Clip
(slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
Crop
(mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
Clip
To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
She clipped my hair with her scissors.
Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.
Crop
An entire oxhide.
Clip
To curtail; to cut short.
Crop
Marijuana.
Clip
To strike with the hand.
I’ll clip ye round the lugs!
Crop
(transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
Clip
To hit or strike, especially in passing.
The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.
Crop
(transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
Clip
(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.
Crop
(transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
Clip
(signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
Crop
(transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
Clip
(computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
Crop
(intransitive) To yield harvest.
Clip
To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.
Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.
Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!
Crop
(transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
To crop a field
Clip
To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
Crop
(transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
Clip
To grab or take stealthily
Crop
The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
Clip
Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
Crop
The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.
Clip
An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
She reads at a pretty good clip.
He was walking at a fair clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.
Crop
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.
Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop,Corn, wine, and oil.
Clip
(obsolete) An embrace.
Crop
Grain or other product of the field while standing.
Clip
(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.
Crop
Anything cut off or gathered.
Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free,It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee.
Clip
A removable magazine of a firearm.
Crop
Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
Clip
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.
Crop
A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.
Clip
A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
Crop
Tin ore prepared for smelting.
Clip
Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
Crop
A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
Clip
The product of a single shearing of sheep.
Crop
To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
Clip
A season's crop of wool.
Crop
Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
Death . . . .crops the growing boys.
Clip
A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video
The morning news today played a clip of last night's debate.
The 100th episode of Seinfeld consisted of clips from previous episodes.
Crop
To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
Clip
A newspaper clipping.
Crop
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.
Clip
An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
I went into the salon to get a clip.
Crop
To yield harvest.
Clip
The condition of something, its state.
Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!
Crop
The yield from plants in a single growing season
Clip
(informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
Give him a clip round the ear!
Crop
A collection of people or things appearing together;
The annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas
Clip
To embrace, hence; to encompass.
O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about,Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
Crop
The output of something in a season;
The latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores
Clip
To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
Sentenced to have his ears clipped.
Crop
The stock or handle of a whip
Clip
To curtail; to cut short.
All my reports go with the modest truth;No more nor clipped, but so.
In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.
Crop
A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
Clip
To move swiftly; - usually with indefinite it.
Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind.
Crop
Cut short;
She wanted her hair cropped short
Clip
An embrace.
Crop
Prepare for crops;
Work the soil
Cultivate the land
Clip
A cutting; a shearing.
Crop
Yield crops;
This land crops well
Clip
The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
Crop
Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
Clip
A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
Crop
Feed as in a meadow or pasture;
The herd was grazing
Clip
An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
Crop
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;
Dress the plants in the garden
Clip
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.
Clip
A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
Clip
A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
Clip
A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
Clip
A rapid gait.
Clip
A metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
Clip
An instance or single occasion for some event;
This time he succeeded
He called four times
He could do ten at a clip
Clip
Any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
Clip
An article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
Clip
The act of clipping or snipping
Clip
A sharp slanting blow;
He gave me a clip on the ear
Clip
Sever or remove by pinching or snipping;
Nip off the flowers
Clip
Run at a moderately swift pace
Clip
Attach with a clip;
Clip the papers together
Clip
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;
Dress the plants in the garden
Clip
Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent;
My speech was cut short
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