crop out

present singular third person crops out · participle present cropping out · participle past cropped out · past cropped out

1. intransitivegeographyTo appear at the surface of the ground; to outcrop.

   Approximately 90 percent of the mapped area is covered by volcanic rocks of Quaternary age; rocks of Tertiary age crop out chiefly in the southeastern and southwestern parts of the area.

   1972, Richard D. Krushensky, Geology of the Istarú Quadrangle, Costa Rica (Geological Survey Bulletin 1358), Washington: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 6

2. broadlyintransitiveTo become noticeable or manifest; to come to light.

   The peculiarities of the author are beginning to crop out.

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   [B]y and by, vagaries and forebodings and despondent feelings began to crop out.

   1873, Edward H[ammond] Clarke, M.D., Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for the Girls, Boston: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […] , →OCLC, pages 86–87

   These feelings belong to earlier situations […] which crop out during the analysis.

   1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 141

   Synonyms: out

3. transitiveartsTo remove (part of an image) by adjusting the borders so as to exclude it.

   In fact, Newsweek chose to crop out two-thirds of the original photograph, which showed Mrs. Cheney, both of their daughters, and one of their grandchildren, who were also in the kitchen, getting ready for a simple family dinner.

   2009 September 17, David Hume Kennerly, “Essay: Chop and Crop”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2023