Decrease and Crop

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• The yield from plants in a single growing season.
  • synonyms: harvest
• A cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale.
• A collection of people or things appearing together.
  • usage: "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
• The output of something in a season.
  • usage: "the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores"
• The stock or handle of a whip.
• A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food.
  • synonyms: craw

verb

• Cut short.
  • usage: "She wanted her hair cropped short"
• Prepare for crops.
  • usage: "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
  • synonyms: cultivate, work
• Yield crops.
  • usage: "This land crops well"
• Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow.
  • synonyms: graze, pasture
• Feed as in a meadow or pasture.
  • usage: "the herd was grazing"
  • synonyms: browse, graze, range, pasture
• Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.
  • usage: "dress the plants in the garden"
  • synonyms: snip, clip, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back

• (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.) Anything cut off or gathered.
• (v.i.) To yield harvest.
• (v.t.) To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
• (v.t.) Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
• (n.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.
• (n.) Hair cut close or short or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
• (n.) The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
• (n.) A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
• (n.) The top, end or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.
• (n.) Grain or other product of the field while standing.
• (n.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
• (v.t.) To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
• (n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.

Crop is the yield or harvest of a planting or other agricultural or animal husbandry activity.