crop vs shear

crop and shear both are nouns.

crop and shear both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
crop	Yes	No	Yes	No
shear	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, shear is a hyponym of crop; that is, shear is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than crop:

crop: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
shear: cut with shears

Other hyponyms of crop include poll, pollard, pinch, top, disbud.

crop (noun)	shear (noun)
a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food	a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
the stock or handle of a whip	(physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
the output of something in a season
a collection of people or things appearing together
the yield from plants in a single growing season
a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale

crop (verb)	shear (verb)
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of	become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
feed as in a meadow or pasture	cut with shears
cut short	cut or cut through with shears
let feed in a field or pasture or meadow	shear the wool from
yield crops
prepare for crops

Difference between crop and shear

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