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   cull

   /kʌl/

   verb

   • 1. reduce the population of (a wild animal) by selective slaughter: "he sees culling deer as a necessity" Similar slaughterkilldestroyreduce the numbers ofthin out the population of
   • ▪ send (an inferior or surplus farm animal) to be slaughtered: "unproductive animals can be identified and culled"
   • 2. select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources: "anecdotes culled from Greek and Roman history" Similar selectchoosepicktakeobtaingetglean
   • ▪ pick (flowers or fruit): archaic "though they may have cleared the weeds, they have also culled the flowers"

   noun

   • 1. a selective slaughter of animals: "fishermen are to campaign for a seal cull"
   • ▪ an inferior or surplus livestock animal selected for culling: "he keeps his female calves and sells only male calves and herd culls"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French coillier, based on Latin colligere (see collect1).

   Derivatives

   • 1. culler noun

   Scrabble Points: 6

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   What does cull mean in a sentence?

   • 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.

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   What does the term 'culls' mean?

   • This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings and translations of the term 'culls'. It seems you might have meant 'cullis' or 'culex' instead. However, 'culls' can also refer to 'any refuse stuff'. Check the definitions and translations provided in this page for further clarification.

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   What does it mean to cull animals?

   • To cull animals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers. [...] present simple: I cull, you cull [...] past simple: I culled, you culled [...] • select, collect, gather, amass [...]

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   What does culling mean?

   • the act of culling. something culled, especially something picked out and put aside as inferior. “Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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   What does culled mean?

   • If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together. Laura was passing around photographs she'd culled from the albums at home. [VERB noun + from] ...information culled from movies he had seen on television. [VERB-ed]

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   Can you use cull as a verb?

   • When you use cull as a verb, the things you gather can be the good or bad ones from a group. In your garden, you can cull the good vegetables for dinner, or the rotten ones for the compost pile. In fact, often no judgment of quality is made, as when you cull information from the Internet for your next research project.

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   Oct 11, 2012 · Cull can be a verb meaning to select or choose from a group, or to reduce or control the size of something by removal. Cull can also be a noun meaning something rejected or inferior.

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   Cull can be a verb meaning to kill or remove animals or plants, or to collect parts or pieces of something. It can also be a noun meaning a large reduction in staff or a management cull.

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   Cull can mean to choose, select, gather, or kill animals or plants. It can also be a noun for the act or product of culling. See examples, synonyms, and word origin.

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   Cull is a verb that means to select and remove from a group, especially to discard or destroy as inferior. It can also mean to collect, gather, or take out something. See synonyms, examples, and word history of cull.

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   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.

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   Cull can be a verb meaning to kill or remove animals, plants or people, or a noun meaning a reduction in the number of people. Learn how to use cull in different contexts with examples and translations.

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   Definitions of 'cull'. 1. If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together. [...] 2. To cull animals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers. [...]