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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

recortar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ʁe.koʁˈtaɾ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Crop/krɒp/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2100 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Você pode recortar a parte desnecessária da foto."

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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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English word 'cropp', meaning 'head of a plant, top, or ear of corn', originating from Proto-Germanic roots. Over centuries, the meaning shifted from the top part of a plant to cultivated plants harvested en masse for food or economic value.

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