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# cropped

«cropped» in Mova's school dictionary: **the past form of crop: to cut something short, like hair…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (crop, crops, cropped, cropping — past and -ed form); adjective (cropped)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cropped is the past form of crop: to cut something short, like hair or grass, or to cut off the edges of a picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/#m1)

2) (adjective) Cropped clothes are cut short on purpose, such as a cropped top or cropped trousers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/#m2)

3) (adjective) Cropped hair is cut very short. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/#m3)

4) (verb) If something cropped up, it appeared or happened suddenly, without being expected. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/#m4)

5) Cropped can also mean bitten short by an animal eating grass, as a horse cropped the turf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In computing and art lessons pupils crop photos to cut off the parts they do not want. In everyday life it describes fashion and haircuts. In farming, a field that has been cropped has had crops grown or cut on it. The phrase «crop up» means a problem or chance that turns up suddenly.

### examples

- I cropped the photo so only my face showed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/#x1)
- She wore a cropped denim jacket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/#x2)
- His hair was cropped short for summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/#x3)
- The sheep cropped the grass very close. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/#x4)
- A problem cropped up, so we were late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/#x5)
- The field was cropped with wheat last year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/#x6)
- Your name cropped up when we were talking about the play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/#x7)
- Then he saw under a tree and waited, while his horse cropped the green turf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/#x8)

### note

Double the p: crop → cropped, cropping. «Crop up» is a phrasal verb: «Something cropped up». A crop (noun) is also a plant grown for food, like wheat; and a crop top is a short top. In computing, «crop» and «resize» are different: cropping cuts parts away, resizing makes the whole picture bigger or smaller.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cropped» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cropped/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.