Word Finder - cropping

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

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To mow, reap or gather.

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

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

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To yield harvest.

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To cause to bear a crop.

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to crop a field

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The act by which something is cut short or truncated.

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The vet was regularly called upon to perform ear croppings.

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The growing of crops.

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An outcrop that is mined for the ore it contains.

I don't want any unfinished business cropping up later.

The farmer therefore arranges his cropping in such a way that roots, or leguminous crops, succeed the cereal crops.

The dentition of the kangaroos, functionally considered, thus consists of sharp-edged incisors, most developed near the median line of the mouth, for the purpose of cropping herbage, and ridged or tuberculated molars for crushing.

The three-field system of cropping a patch of land until its fertility is exhausted, and then allowing it to revert to the primeval condition, is still pursued, and both landowners and peasantry suffer from want of capital and lack of agricultural training.

The Cruelty to Animals Acts 1849 and 1854 render liable to prosecution and fine practically any act of cruelty to an animal; such acts as dubbing a cock, cropping the ears of a dog or dishorning cattle, are offences.

The abolition of the cropping of the ears of Great Danes, bull terriers, black and tan terriers, white English terriers, Irish terriers and toy terriers, in 1889 gained the approval of all humane lovers of dogs, and although attempts have been made to induce the club to modify the rule which prohibits the exhibition of cropped dogs, the practice has not been revived; it is declared, however, that the toy terriers and white English terriers have lost such smartness by the retention of the ears that they are becoming.

At a subsequent confederation, held at Lublin in June, Zebrzydowski was reinforced by another great nobleman, Stanislaus Stadnicki, called the Devil, who "had more crimes on his conscience than hairs on his head," and was in the habit of cropping the ears and noses of small squires and chaining his serfs to the walls of his underground dungeons for months at a time.

A weather summary for the cropping year, and background information on arable crop agronomy are also provided.

On the other hand, the vast number of experiments in the cropping of the tails and ears of domestic animals, as well as of similar operations on man, are attended with negative results.

Many attempts have been made to correlate the results of the analyses of a soil with its known cropping power, but there is yet much to be learnt in regard to these matters.

The form of the kitchen and fruit garden should be square or oblong, rather than curvilinear, since the working and cropping of the ground can thus be more easily carried out.

The two last-named must not be applied direct to growing crops, but to the soil some weeks in advance of sowing or cropping.

In the east portion of the state are immense beds of bituminous coal, often at shallow depths or cropping out on the surface.

Carrots can be sown now for early cropping - use cloches to protect during the winter.

But if the same old rows keep cropping up, curmudgeonly codgers like me might seek refuge in sudoku.

This word keeps cropping up in colonial discourse, all over the world -- they are rational!

Ban on triazine herbicides likely to reduce but not negate relative benefits of GMHT maize cropping.

Most salads today are the product of intensive monoculture with extended cropping seasons.

Where they were some distance from the commons, however, even the relatively well-to-do farmers had to reduce their cropping.

While the methods of agriculture have generally shown little, if any, advance, the population is increasing rapidly; and although since the emancipation of the peasants the average annual export of cereals has increased from less than 12 million tons in 1860 to over 6 million tons in 1900, this result has been attained largely by the repeated cropping to exhaustion of the soil.

Barley (see Agriculture, Crops and Cropping) is a rapidlygrowing and shallow-rooted plant.

After the scan, you can do basic editing like cropping and enhancing and other corrections.

With the advent of online shopping, the number of e-stores competing for your attention--and wallet--seem to be cropping up exponentially.

The following pages will get you started, but new sites are always cropping up for searches like "plans dining room table" and others designed to locate useful woodworking information.

Patchwork fabric furniture has been cropping up everywhere from magazines to Target.

The customizable touch screen also allows you to edit your photos via standard cropping, resizing and red eye elimination.

There is a large degree of subjectivity in female figure photography in regards to framing, focus, lighting, and cropping, you still have to abide by a general set of rules.

If you plan to allow cropping time for your guests, music can help create a fun and lively atmosphere.

However, coming up with a suitable storage system will prevent your supplies from becoming damaged and allow you to make the most of your cropping time.Most scrapbookers use either vertical or horizontal paper storage.

Scrapbook paper trays make it easier to keep your supplies neatly organized between cropping sessions.

When you have a limited amount of time to scrapbook, using scrapbook organizers to plan your layouts can help you make the most of your cropping experience.

You don't need to worry about cropping several photos to make them fit on the page.

It's also a place to learn a variety of cropping techniques, as well as how to incorporate the latest products into your designs.

There's no mess to clean up when you're done cropping.

Aside from scrapbooking classes and open cropping times, CKU also includes plenty of opportunities for socializing.

Scrapbooker's retreats can be a wonderful way to squeeze in some extra cropping time while socializing with crafters who share your love of preserving your family's precious memories.

Do you prefer to create scrapbook layouts with standard 4x6 prints or do you enjoy cropping your photos into smaller sizes to allow you to fit more images on the page?

You'll also find acid-free pens, cropping tools, photo mounting tools and supplies, page planners, tearing tools, and other helpful items.

In addition to being real timesavers, scrapbook templates help give your albums a cleaner and better organized appearance since they make cropping more consistent.

Large rolling scrapbook totes are allowed at the cropping workshops, but they are prohibited at the Vendor Fair.

Cropping parties are informal additions to general conventions.

Generally, a convention will host a number of cropping parties.

If you don't have the resources to participate in a full-blown convention, then consider signing up for a weekend cropping retreat or attend workshops or classes sponsored by local scrapbook or craft stores.

This relatively new massage phenomenon is cropping up in shopping malls, flea markets and workplaces across the country.

Cake "architects," or people who can turn even the Sears Tower into a luscious dessert, are cropping up at bakeries everywhere.

New children's designers are always cropping up, and over the past decade even high-end designers have taken an interest in baby and children's clothing.

Hotels with indoor water parks are cropping up all over the nation.

Whether you are planning a spring break or off-season spring trip to Disney World, the deals begin cropping up in late autumn (typically between Halloween and Thanksgiving) and continue through January.

Thanks to celebrities like pop artist Rihanna, short hair is cropping up even edgier this season.

Swimwear designs and colors also hark back to times gone by, with the fashion for polka-dots finding its way into swimwear collections, and sixties-style swirls cropping up again.