(n.) The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
(n.) The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Grain or other product of the field while standing.
(n.) Anything cut off or gathered.
(n.) Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
(n.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.
(n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
(n.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
(n.) A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
(v. t.) To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
(v. t.) Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
(v. t.) To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
(v. i.) To yield harvest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
(2) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(3) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(4) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.
(5) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
(6) Wastewater from Mexico city is used to irrigate over 85 000 hectares, mainly of fodder and cereal crops in the Mezquital Valley.
(7) In lieu of crop rotation and biodiversity (the non-toxic way to control weeds), the MSU extension service promotes what the article calls a "diversified herbicide program".
(8) This report summarizes mass loading data (i.e., mass of soil per unit of vegetation) for crops in the southeastern United States and compares these data to 1) those from other regions and 2) the mass loadings used in radionuclide transfer models to predict soil contamination of plant surfaces.
(9) In this way proline may be related to the cell wall as a morphological entity rather than as a fraction in a biochemical separation of a heterogeneous crop of cells.
(10) The crops were fortified with each fungicide at 3 levels per crop.
(11) Three root crops (radishes, carrots, and onions) were grown in two soils, each treated with a mixture of FireMaster BP-6 (PBB) and 14C-PBB to achieve final concentrations of 100 ppm and 100 ppb.
(12) Pro- and anti-GM organisations clashed on Tuesday over the accuracy of industry figures that suggested a rise internationally of 8% in the acreage of GM crops in 2011, a 16th straight rise since they were first sold in 1996.
(13) Duodenal DM flow was estimated with the indigestible markers, Cr-mordanted cell wall, Yb-soaked whole crop oat silage, and Co-EDTA.
(14) She walked around her Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in a crop top that showed her belly button ring; she also established herself as a hard- working MP for that area.
(15) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(16) An increased cancer incidence has also been found in geographical areas with low selenium contents in forage crops (Shamberger et al 1976).
(17) The warming is expected to continue without undue problems for 30 years but beyond 2050 the effects could be dramatic with staple crops hit.
(18) We conclude that the hair cell determines the number of stereocilia to form by filling up the available apical surface area with stereocilia and then, by cropping back those that are not stabilized by extracellular linkages, arrives at the appropriate number.
(19) T he image of the lone wolf who splits from the pack has been a staple of popular culture since the 19th century, cropping up in stories about empire and exploration from British India to the wild west.
(20) And that means more of the world's crops going to feed animals, already consuming 40% of all the grains we farm.
Hayward
Definition:
(n.) An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, after the first purification steps, we identified the protein, which was present in a very low concentration, by the immunosorbent assay of Hayward et al.
(2) BP credit rating downgraded after Tony Hayward's grilling by Congress 19 June One of BP's partners, Anadarko Petroleum, refuses to accept any responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon explosion despite owning a quarter of the well.
(3) While Hayward said relations between the firm and US federal authorities were "extraordinarily good" and he was "absolutely confident" BP would bounce back, Barclays estimated the oil company could face 100,000 claims at $100,000 each.
(4) Stock market flotation raised £1.35bn, and this month Hayward, as Vallares's chief executive, announced that new shares worth a similar amount would be sold to finance a merger (technically, a reverse takeover) with a Turkish company, Genel Energy International, which holds rights to oil reserves in the Iraqi province of Kurdistan.
(5) Hayward was handed the gig after almost a year as Glencore's interim chairman, and the view is that he might favour Glasenberg over outsiders.
(6) Tony Hayward, chief executive of the UK's largest oil company, said that British government ministers risked being seduced by "headline-grabbing options" such as offshore wind and clean coal in a bid to bolster energy security and meet climate-change goals.
(7) Tony Hayward to quit BP 27 July As BP plunges into the red, the company is to to book a $10bn (£6.5bn) tax credit against the costs of cleaning up the oil spill and is making a provision of $32.2bn towards it.
(8) Cox was stepping down to spend more time with her children, Hayward added.
(9) A well-known fund management group said last week that it had sold all its Glencore shares as: "This [Hayward's] appointment suggests a company that is public but feels like it is being run as a private company."
(10) I'll pick out some of them in a bit, but here's Paul Hayward's excellent piece on the match from today's Guardian.
(11) Less than a year after he was forced out of BP by a wave of anger in the US, Hayward launched the new company, Vallares, alongside high-profile financier, Nat Rothschild, and backed by US investors.
(12) Hayward previously described Dudley as "the management team's foreign secretary".
(13) But Hayward insisted that deep-water drilling would continue in the US despite the growing environmental and political backlash against the company.
(14) Hayward, who has a degree in geology, mounted a robust defence of BP's recent safety record.
(15) Tony Hayward , the former BP boss pilloried by US politicians over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill last year, launched his comeback with a £1bn stock market float that will catapult him back into the oil business.
(16) Lara Flynn Boyle The break-out star of the show, who played Donna Hayward, enjoyed a patchy career in film (Wayne's World, Men in Black II), later returning to TV to appear in long-running legal drama The Practice, as well as Las Vegas and Huff.
(17) Hayward, who has just joined the board of newly floated commodity trader Glencore, received a £1m payoff from BP.
(18) Hayward, who was became a non-executive director for the newly listed commodity trading multinational Glencore, said there was no place for renewable power in the portfolio and he had already made a list of potential assets in South America, Africa and even Russia.
(19) The former BP boss Tony Hayward has returned to the top ranks of the corporate world following his appointment as full-time chairman of Glencore Xstrata, the FTSE 100 commodity trading and mining group.
(20) The committee has been conducting an aggressive inquiry into the gusher, and called Hayward in to answer specific charges of suspected safety lapses and shortcuts in the design plan of the well in the days before the explosion on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon rig.