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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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noun. : something rejected especially as being inferior or worthless. … how to separate good-looking pecans from culls. The Washington Post. Synonyms. Verb. cherry-pick. choose. elect. handpick. name. opt (for)
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.
Definition of 'cull' cull. (kʌl ) Word forms: 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. All this, needless to say, had been culled second-hand from radio reports. [be VERB -ed + from]
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 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.
To select and gather (flowers or fruit); pick. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To examine (a collection or group) in order to select desired parts or, esp., to discard or destroy unwanted parts. To cull a herd. Webster's New World.
Sep 23, 2024 · Verb. [edit] cull (third-person singular simple present culls, present participle culling, simple past and past participle culled) To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
CULL meaning: 1 : to select or choose (someone or something) from a group usually + from; 2 : to control the size of (a group of animals) by killing some animals.
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. [...] More. Pronunciations of 'cull' American English: kʌl British English: kʌl. More.
