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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 reduce or control the size of (something, such as a herd) by removal (as by hunting or slaughter) of especially weak or sick individuals. The town issued hunting licenses in order to cull the deer population. culling a herd of cattle. also : to hunt or kill (individuals) for culling. culling diseased cows. culled hundreds of deer. culler noun.
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)
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 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.
Cull definition: to select and remove from a group, especially to discard or destroy as inferior. See examples of CULL used in a sentence.
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)
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.
Definition of cull verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
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.
