crop

culture

Plante cultivée en grande quantité pour l’alimentation ou pour obtenir d’autres produits utiles.

En anglais simple : A plant grown in large amounts for food or other useful products.

• Rice is an important crop here.
• The farmers grow several crops on their land.
• Dry weather has damaged the wheat crop.

Expressions courantes : grow a crop, food crop, cash crop

récolte

Quantité de plantes ou de produits végétaux récoltés dans une ferme pendant une saison.

En anglais simple : The amount of plants or their products collected from a farm in one season.

• We had a good crop this year.
• The apple crop was smaller than expected.
• Heavy rain ruined last summer’s crop.

Comment l'utiliser : crop of something (The trees produced a large crop of pears.)

Synonymes : harvest, yield

Expressions courantes : bumper crop, poor crop, crop of something

jabot

Poche interne de certains oiseaux et autres animaux, où la nourriture reste avant d’arriver à l’estomac.

En anglais simple : A bag inside some birds and other animals that holds food before it reaches the stomach.

• The bird’s crop was full.
• Seeds collect in the crop before reaching the stomach.
• The vet gently examined the pigeon’s crop.

Synonymes : craw

Expressions courantes : bird’s crop, full crop

recadrer, rogner

Enlever les bords d’une image pour ne garder que la partie souhaitée.

En anglais simple : To remove the outer parts of a picture so only the part you want remains.

• Please crop this photo.
• She cropped the image to remove the empty space.
• Can you crop the picture into a square?

Comment l'utiliser : crop something to something (I cropped the photo to the required size.)

Synonymes : trim

Expressions courantes : crop a photo, crop an image, crop something tightly

couper court

Couper très court les cheveux, les oreilles ou la queue d’un animal.

En anglais simple : To cut hair or an animal’s ears or tail very short.

• She decided to crop her hair.
• The barber cropped his hair very short.
• Some owners crop their dogs’ ears.

Comment l'utiliser : crop something short (He cropped his hair short for the summer.)

Synonymes : clip, cut short

Expressions courantes : crop someone’s hair, crop something short, crop a tail

étêter, brouter

Couper ou manger le haut de quelque chose, notamment d’une plante.

En anglais simple : To cut off the top part of something, especially a plant.

• The sheep crop the grass.
• He cropped the tops of the young plants.
• Horses had cropped the shoots close to the ground.

Synonymes : trim, clip

Expressions courantes : crop the grass, crop a plant

cultiver

Utiliser un terrain pour faire pousser des plantes destinées à être récoltées, utilisées ou vendues.

En anglais simple : To use land to grow plants that will be collected and used or sold.

• They crop this field every year.
• The land was cropped with wheat last season.
• Farmers crop the lower fields more often.

Comment l'utiliser : crop something with something (They crop the fields with barley.)

Synonymes : cultivate

Expressions courantes : crop a field, crop the land