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View usage for: (kʌl) Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense culls, present participle culling, past tense, past participle culled1. verbIf 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] 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] Synonyms: select, collect, gather, amass More Synonyms of cull 2. verbTo cull animals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers. To save remaining herds and habitat, the national parks department is planning tocull 2000 elephants. [VERB noun] Cull is also a noun. In many South African reserves, annual culls are routine. culling uncountable noun The culling of seal cubs has led to an outcry from environmental groups. [+ of] More Synonyms of cull (kʌl) verb (transitive)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 cease to employ; get rid of noun6. the act or product of culling 7. an inferior animal taken from a herd or group Word origin C15: from Old French coillir to pick, from Latin colligere; see collect1 (kʌl) verb transitive1. 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. a. to select and gather (flowers or fruit); pick b. US, Forestry to select trees to be felled for timber 3. to examine (a collection or group) in order to select desired parts or, esp., to discard or destroy unwanted parts to cull a herd noun4. something picked out; esp., something rejected as not being up to standard Word origin ME cullen < OFr coillir < L colligere: see collect 2Examples of 'cull' in a sentencecull British English: cull 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. - American English: cull
- Brazilian Portuguese: separar
- Chinese: 采集
- European Spanish: entresacar
- French: sélectionner
- German: sammeln
- Italian: raccogliere
- Japanese: 選び出す
- Korean: 조금씩 따오다
- European Portuguese: separar
- Latin American Spanish: entresacar
Chinese translation of 'cull' vt - [animals]
杀(殺)掉 ... 中的一部分以减(減)少其数(數)量 (shādiào ... zhōng de yī bùfen yǐ jiǎnshǎo qí shùliàng) to cull sth from sth [story, idea] 从(從)某物中精选(選)出某物 (cóng mǒuwù zhōng jīngxuān chū mǒuwù)
n (c) - [of animals]
剔除 (tīchú)
Definition to choose or gather All this information had been culled from radio reports. Definition to remove or kill (the inferior or surplus) animals from a herd The wildlife park is planning to cull 2,000 elephants. Additional synonymsDefinition to accumulate or collect We didn't enquire as to how she had amassed her fortune. Synonyms collect, gather, assemble, compile, accumulate, aggregate, pile up, garner, hoard, scrape together, rake up, heap up Definition to kill (people) at random or brutally Our people are being butchered in their own homes. Synonyms kill, slaughter, massacre, destroy, cut down, assassinate, slay (archaic, literary), liquidate, exterminate, put to the sword Definition to select (a person, thing, or course of action) from a number of alternatives I chose him to accompany me on my trip. Synonyms pick, take, prefer, select, elect, adopt, opt for, designate, single out, espouse, settle on, fix on, cherry-pick, settle upon, predestine - cue
- cuff
- cul-de-sac
- cull
- culminate
- culmination
- culpability
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