crop out

crop out
crop out
to appear on the surface; [for something] to reveal itself in the open; to begin to show above the surface. •

A layer of rock cropped out at the edges of the desert.

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{v.} To appear at the surface; come through or show through from hiding or concealment. * /Rocks often crop out in New England pasture land./ * /A hidden hate cropped out in his words./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • crop out — {v.} To appear at the surface; come through or show through from hiding or concealment. * /Rocks often crop out in New England pasture land./ * /A hidden hate cropped out in his words./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • crop\ out — v To appear at the surface; come through or show through from hiding or concealment. Rocks often crop out in New England pasture land. A hidden hate cropped out in his words …   Словарь американских идиом

  • crop out — Synonyms and related words: appear, arise, be conspicuous, be exposed, become manifest, become visible, come, come forth, come forward, come in sight, come out, come to hand, come to light, emerge, enter, fade in, hang out, have high visibility,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • crop out — (of rock) appear or be exposed at the surface of the earth. → crop …   English new terms dictionary

  • To crop out — Crop Crop, v. i. To yield harvest. [1913 Webster] {To crop out}. (a) (Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. (b) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Crop Out — VP A camera and post production technique used to tighten or recompose a shot that has unwanted images creeping into the frame …   Audio and video glossary

  • Crop out — FilmM to adjust your frame by tightening a shot or re composing, so that an undesirable elements such as a sign or attention starved jerk waving at the camera is no longer in the frame …   Audio and video glossary

  • crop out — verb appear at the surface A seam of coal bassets • Syn: ↑basset • Hypernyms: ↑appear • Verb Frames: Something is ing PP * * * (of rock) appear or be exposed at the surface of the earth …   Useful english dictionary

  • crop — [kräp] n. [ME croppe < OE croppa, a cluster, flower, crop of bird, hence kidney, pebble; akin to Frank * kruppa, Ger kropf, a swelling, crop of bird (basic sense “something swelling out or swollen”) < IE * gr eu b , curving out < base *… …   English World dictionary

  • Crop — Crop, v. i. To yield harvest. [1913 Webster] {To crop out}. (a) (Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. (b) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out. {To …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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