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- Dictionarycull/kʌl/
verb
- 1. reduce the population of (a wild animal) by selective slaughter: "he sees culling deer as a necessity" Similar
- 2. select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources: "anecdotes culled from Greek and Roman history" Similar
noun
- 1. a selective slaughter of animals: "fishermen are to campaign for a seal cull"
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to collect parts or pieces of something to use for another purpose: She went to strange lands to cull recipes for her book. If you cull animals or plants, you kill or remove them: to cull growing herds before they run out of food. culling dead timber. (Definition of cull from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
- English (US)
to collect parts or pieces of something to use for another...
- Znaczenie Cull, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
CULL definicja: 1. When people cull animals, they kill them,...
- Cull: French Translation
CULL translate: abattre, éliminer, abattage, élimination....
- Cull: Thai Translation
cull translate: ลดจำนวนสัตว์ลง, การลดจำนวนสัตว์ลง. Learn...
- Cull: Russian Translation
CULL translate: выбраковывать (скот) . Learn more in the...
- Cull: German Translation
cull translate: aussuchen, das Schlachten von minderwertigem...
- English (US)
1. : to select from a group : choose. culled the best passages from the poet's work. Damaged fruits are culled before the produce is shipped. 2. : to reduce or control the size of (something, such as a herd) by removal (as by hunting or slaughter) of especially weak or sick individuals.
Cull definition: to select and remove from a group, especially to discard or destroy as inferior. See examples of CULL used in a sentence.
1. to choose or gather the best or required examples. 2. to take out (an animal, esp an inferior one) from a herd. 3. to reduce the size of (a herd or flock) by killing a proportion of its members. 4. to gather (flowers, fruit, etc) 5. to cease to employ; get rid of.
to collect parts or pieces of something to use for another purpose: She went to strange lands to cull recipes for her book. If you cull animals or plants, you kill or remove them: to cull growing herds before they run out of food. culling dead timber. (Definition of cull from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
To cull means to select or gather. If you decide to make a literary anthology, you must cull the best possible stories and then arrange them in a pleasing manner. When you use cull as a verb, the things you gather can be the good or bad ones from a group.
1. To pick out from others; select. 2. To gather; collect. 3. To remove rejected members or parts from (a herd, for example). n. Something picked out from others, especially something rejected because of inferior quality. [Middle English cullen, from Old French cuillir, from Latin colligere; see collect1 .] cull′er n.