weeding outn.

Brit.

/wiːdɪŋ ˈaʊt/, U.S.

/ˌwidɪŋ ˈaʊt/

Forms: see weeding n. and out adv.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: weeding n., out adv.

Etymology: < weeding n. + out adv., after to weed out at weed v. Phrasal verbs.

The action or process of weeding out someone or something (in various senses of to weed out at weed v. Phrasal verbs). Also: an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > weeding or weed control

weedingOE

louking1491

weeding out1558

averruncation1656

runcation1664

thistling1766

weeding process1834

weed control1908

weed digging1950

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > clearing or sweeping away > riddance > of selected undesirable things or persons

weeding out1558

weeder out1559

weeding1589

weed-out1873

1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xxv. f. cliiii^v The publike ministration of the Gospell of Christe standeth..for weedynge out and banyshing of all errour and vngodly liuing.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxviij^v The wedyng out of Heretikes.

1656 J. Fowler Hist. Troubles Suethland & Poland 63 To the Suethes an Embassie so magnificent, from the Senatoriall Orders of Poland and Lithuania, would have come most acceptable for the weeding out of any discords that might have sprung up.

1770 Bp. J. Hall's Contempl. (new ed.) II. xviii. v. 176 Neither doth the zeal of Asa more magnify itself in these private weedings out of the corruptions of religion, than in the positive acts of an holy plantation.

1867 Lancaster Gaz. 22 June 2/1 As one of the great faults in modern plant growing is overcrowding..I cannot too earnestly advise that a weeding out be made in regard to the inmates of most mixed structures.

1893 J. Nisbet Brit. Forest Trees 198 It is..in the weeding out of indifferent individuals of its own species where they stand too thick, that assistance needs to be given to oak during the thicket stage of growth.

1926 Bull. Amer. Libr. Assoc. Oct. 490/2 When we talk of weeding therefore we mean only the weeding out of the less fit from this small remnant.

1951 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. Oct. 790/1 Everyone agreed that a more aggressive policy in the weeding out and destruction of closed files was desirable.

2015 Atlantic Dec. 43/1 She favored lustration (the stringent weeding-out of old Soviet functionaries, akin to post-World War II denazification), as she recalled in a letter she wrote to the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2008.

Compounds

General attributive, as weeding-out process, weeding-out policy, etc.

ΚΠ

1850 Newcastle Courant 8 Nov. This ‘weeding out’ process is now in full operation.

1893 Papers & Proc. 15th Gen. Meeting Amer. Libr. Assoc. 22/2 As a State librarian I believe I should be an advocate of the weeding-out process if we could get those people who are not entitled to public documents to give them up.

1932 New Yorker 14 May 56/2 I should like to hear some of the manuscripts that the weeding-out committee considered inferior to the final five.

1981 D. Francis Twice Shy xii. 139 He disagreed strongly with my weeding-out policy, even though I'd..discussed every dud [horse] to be discarded.

2006 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 June (Late ed.) x. 1/1 This year's crop of would-be interns, who gathered for a weeding-out process.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	weeding out
释义	weeding outn. Brit. /wiːdɪŋ ˈaʊt/, U.S. /ˌwidɪŋ ˈaʊt/ Forms: see weeding n. and out adv. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: weeding n., out adv. Etymology: < weeding n. + out adv., after to weed out at weed v. Phrasal verbs. The action or process of weeding out someone or something (in various senses of to weed out at weed v. Phrasal verbs). Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > weeding or weed control weedingOE louking1491 weeding out1558 averruncation1656 runcation1664 thistling1766 weeding process1834 weed control1908 weed digging1950 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > clearing or sweeping away > riddance > of selected undesirable things or persons weeding out1558 weeder out1559 weeding1589 weed-out1873 1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xxv. f. cliiii^v The publike ministration of the Gospell of Christe standeth..for weedynge out and banyshing of all errour and vngodly liuing. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxviij^v The wedyng out of Heretikes. 1656 J. Fowler Hist. Troubles Suethland & Poland 63 To the Suethes an Embassie so magnificent, from the Senatoriall Orders of Poland and Lithuania, would have come most acceptable for the weeding out of any discords that might have sprung up. 1770 Bp. J. Hall's Contempl. (new ed.) II. xviii. v. 176 Neither doth the zeal of Asa more magnify itself in these private weedings out of the corruptions of religion, than in the positive acts of an holy plantation. 1867 Lancaster Gaz. 22 June 2/1 As one of the great faults in modern plant growing is overcrowding..I cannot too earnestly advise that a weeding out be made in regard to the inmates of most mixed structures. 1893 J. Nisbet Brit. Forest Trees 198 It is..in the weeding out of indifferent individuals of its own species where they stand too thick, that assistance needs to be given to oak during the thicket stage of growth. 1926 Bull. Amer. Libr. Assoc. Oct. 490/2 When we talk of weeding therefore we mean only the weeding out of the less fit from this small remnant. 1951 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. Oct. 790/1 Everyone agreed that a more aggressive policy in the weeding out and destruction of closed files was desirable. 2015 Atlantic Dec. 43/1 She favored lustration (the stringent weeding-out of old Soviet functionaries, akin to post-World War II denazification), as she recalled in a letter she wrote to the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2008. Compounds General attributive, as weeding-out process, weeding-out policy, etc. ΚΠ 1850 Newcastle Courant 8 Nov. This ‘weeding out’ process is now in full operation. 1893 Papers & Proc. 15th Gen. Meeting Amer. Libr. Assoc. 22/2 As a State librarian I believe I should be an advocate of the weeding-out process if we could get those people who are not entitled to public documents to give them up. 1932 New Yorker 14 May 56/2 I should like to hear some of the manuscripts that the weeding-out committee considered inferior to the final five. 1981 D. Francis Twice Shy xii. 139 He disagreed strongly with my weeding-out policy, even though I'd..discussed every dud [horse] to be discarded. 2006 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 June (Late ed.) x. 1/1 This year's crop of would-be interns, who gathered for a weeding-out process. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1558
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