cull

cull
[[t]kʌ̱l[/t]]
culls, culling, culled
1) VERB If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.

[be V-ed from n] All this, needless to say, had been culled second-hand from radio reports...

[V n from n] Laura was passing around photographs she'd culled from the albums at home.

[V-ed] ...information culled from movies he had seen on television.

2) VERB To cull animals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers.

[V n] To save remaining herds and habitat, the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants.

Derived words:
culling N-UNCOUNT usu with supp

The culling of seal cubs has led to an outcry from environmental groups.

N-COUNT
Cull is also a noun.

In the reserves of Zimbabwe and South Africa, annual culls are already routine.


English dictionary. 2008.

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  • cull — Ⅰ. cull UK US /kʌl/ verb [T] INFORMAL WORKPLACE ► to reduce the number of people that work for a particular company by a large amount: »The programme of redundancies was intended to cull 1000 jobs. »The company has culled 1,900 people from its… …   Financial and business terms

  • Cull — (k?l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Culled} (k?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Culling}.] [OE.cullen, OF. cuillir, coillir, F.cueillir, to gather, pluck, pick, fr. L. colligere. See {Coil}, v. t., and cf. {Collect}.] To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • cull — cull·age; cull; cull·er; …   English syllables

  • cull — [kul] vt. [ME cullen < OFr coillir < L colligere: see COLLECT2] 1. a) to pick out; select [to cull facts from an encyclopedia] b) to pick out in order to discard or destroy [a librarian culled unneeded books] 2 …   English World dictionary

  • Cull — Cull, n. A cully; a dupe; a gull. See {Cully}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • cull — [v1] pick out for reason choose, discriminate, elect, extract, glean, mark, optate, opt for, pluck, prefer, select, sift, single out, take, thin, thin out, winnow; concepts 41,142 cull [v2] gather accumulate, amass, collect, extract, garner,… …   New thesaurus

  • cull — cull. См. выбраковка. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • cull — I verb accumulate, amass, carpere, choose, collect, decerpere, gather, glean, legere, make a selection, pick, pick out, pluck, round up, select, separate, sift, single out, sort out, winnow II index choose …   Law dictionary

  • cull — vb pick, single, *choose, select, elect, opt, prefer …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • cull — To remove nonletter mail (such as small parcels, rolls, and odd shaped material) from letter mail (and nonmachinable mailpieces from automation rate pieces) by hand or machine. During culling, specials (such as special delivery and accountable… …   Glossary of postal terms

  • cull — ► VERB 1) reduce the numbers of (animals) by selective slaughter. 2) select or obtain from a large quantity or a variety of sources. ► NOUN ▪ a selective slaughter of animals. ORIGIN Old French coillier, from Latin colligere gather together …   English terms dictionary

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