🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

recortar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: re.korˈtaɾ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Crop/krɒp/
verbnounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2150 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Tienes que recortar la imagen para que encaje."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially or for food.

    "The heavy rain this season destroyed the local wheat crop."
As verb
  1. 1

    To cut or trim the edges or extremities of something, such as an image or material, to remove unnecessary parts.

    "She decided to crop the photograph to focus more on the subject's face."

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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English word cropp, meaning the head of a plant, ear of corn, or top of a herb. Over time, the meaning broadened in Middle English to describe the gathering of harvested produce, and later evolved into the photographic and digital sense of trimming the edges of an image.

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