Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cropping

/kɹˈɑpɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.05 in modern English

Syllables: crop-ping
IPA: /kɹˈɑpɪŋ/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of crop

noun

The act by which something is cut short or truncated.

noun

The growing of crops.

noun

An outcrop that is mined for the ore it contains.

Example Sentences

"The vet was regularly called upon to perform ear croppings."
"Their croppings are either entirely barren or contain only a moderate amount of copper, but much richer ore is ordinarily found just above the chalcocite zone."
"The cropping of the Quincy ore-bearing bed, the equivalent of the Daly West bed, is stated to have been found at the east end of the present mine and just below the present wagon road."

Inflected Forms

croppings (plural)

Derived Forms

autocropping monocropping multicropping polycropping sharecropping upcropping

Phrases

double cropping strip cropping trap cropping

Rhymes With

shopping dropping stopping popping topping hopping chopping swapping whopping flopping propping mopping

Questions

How do you pronounce cropping?: The recorded pronunciation is /kɹˈɑpɪŋ/.
What does cropping mean?: present participle and gerund of crop

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