# cropping

Pronunciation: say "KROP-ing" US /ˈkɹɑpɪŋ/, UK /ˈkɹɒpɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of crop. — present participle and gerund of crop
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of crop. Use this -ing form for an action happening now or as the name of the action.
   - _He spent the afternoon cropping the hedge into a neat shape._
   - _Cropping the image too tightly cut off part of the signature._

## Noun

2. The act of cutting something short or removing part of it so that less remains.
   - Simple: The act of cutting part of something off to make it shorter or smaller.
   - _The cropping of the manuscript's margins destroyed several handwritten notes._
   - _Careful cropping turned a cluttered snapshot into a clean portrait._
3. The activity of growing crops on farmland for food or other agricultural use.
   - Simple: The work of growing plants for food or other use on a farm.
   - _Intensive cropping over many seasons can exhaust the soil's nutrients._
   - _The estate's cropping shifted from wheat to higher-value vegetables._
4. A surface exposure of rock that is mined for the ore contained within it.
   - Simple: A piece of rock that sticks out of the ground and is dug into for the metal inside it.
   - _Prospectors traced the cropping along the ridge to estimate the vein's size._
   - _The company began digging where the cropping broke through the hillside._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/cropping (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).