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cull
cull C0798200 (kŭl)tr.v. culled, cull·ing, culls 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.cull (kʌl) vb (tr) 1. to choose or gather the best or required examples2. (Agriculture) to take out (an animal, esp an inferior one) from a herd3. (Agriculture) to reduce the size of (a herd or flock) by killing a proportion of its members4. (Horticulture) to gather (flowers, fruit, etc)5. to cease to employ; get rid ofn6. the act or product of culling7. (Agriculture) an inferior animal taken from a herd or group[C15: from Old French coillir to pick, from Latin colligere; see collect1]cull (kʌl)
v.t. 1. to choose; select; pick. 2. to gather the choice things or parts from. 3. to collect; gather; pluck. n. 4. something picked out and put aside as inferior. [1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French cuillir < Latin colligere to gather] cull′er, n. Cull a selection; those beasts taken out of a herd for a special purpose.Examples: cull of fat cows, 1858; of sheep, 1880.cull
Past participle: culled
Gerund: culling
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| I cull | | you cull | | he/she/it culls | | we cull | | you cull | | they cull |
| Preterite |
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| I culled | | you culled | | he/she/it culled | | we culled | | you culled | | they culled |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am culling | | you are culling | | he/she/it is culling | | we are culling | | you are culling | | they are culling |
| Present Perfect |
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| I have culled | | you have culled | | he/she/it has culled | | we have culled | | you have culled | | they have culled |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was culling | | you were culling | | he/she/it was culling | | we were culling | | you were culling | | they were culling |
| Past Perfect |
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| I had culled | | you had culled | | he/she/it had culled | | we had culled | | you had culled | | they had culled |
| Future |
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| I will cull | | you will cull | | he/she/it will cull | | we will cull | | you will cull | | they will cull |
| Future Perfect |
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| I will have culled | | you will have culled | | he/she/it will have culled | | we will have culled | | you will have culled | | they will have culled |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be culling | | you will be culling | | he/she/it will be culling | | we will be culling | | you will be culling | | they will be culling |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been culling | | you have been culling | | he/she/it has been culling | | we have been culling | | you have been culling | | they have been culling |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
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| I will have been culling | | you will have been culling | | he/she/it will have been culling | | we will have been culling | | you will have been culling | | they will have been culling |
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| I had been culling | | you had been culling | | he/she/it had been culling | | we had been culling | | you had been culling | | they had been culling |
| Conditional |
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| I would cull | | you would cull | | he/she/it would cull | | we would cull | | you would cull | | they would cull |
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| I would have culled | | you would have culled | | he/she/it would have culled | | we would have culled | | you would have culled | | they would have culled |
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  cull - the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in qualityrejectdeciding, decision making - the cognitive process of reaching a decision; "a good executive must be good at decision making" | | Verb | 1. | cull - remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd"get rid of, remove - dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood" | | 2. | cull - look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"pick, pluckgather, pull together, collect, garner - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"mushroom - pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall"berry - pick or gather berries; "We went berrying in the summer"cull out, winnow - select desirable parts from a group or list; "cull out the interesting letters from the poet's correspondence"; "winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants" |
cullverb1. select, collect, gather, amass, choose, pick, pick up, pluck, glean, cherry-pick All this information had been culled from radio reports.2. slaughter, kill, destroy, butcher, slay, exterminate, thin out The wildlife park is planning to cull 2,000 elephants.cullverb1. To make a choice from a number of alternatives:choose, elect, opt (for), pick (out), select, single (out).2. To collect (something) bit by bit:extract, garner, gather, glean, pick up.Translationscull (kal) verb1. to gather or collect. 採集 采集2. to select and kill (surplus animals). They are culling the kangaroos. 剔除，淘汰 剔去，淘汰，精选 noun an act of killing surplus animals. 剔除，淘汰 剔除，淘汰 cull
cull the herd1. Literally, to separate or remove (and usually kill) inferior animals out of a herd so as to reduce numbers or remove undesirable traits from the group as a whole. We had to quickly cull the herd when it came to light that some cows might be carrying an infectious disease.2. By extension, to separate or remove people from a larger group. With so many people applying for a limited number of jobs, employers have had to cull the herd by introducing much stricter criteria and a more elaborate application for hiring. Universities have long used standardized test results as a means of culling the herd of applicants they receive each year.See also: cull, herdcull (someone or something) out of (something)To remove someone or something from a group. We were so determined to win the science bowl that we culled everyone who seemed susceptible to stage fright out of the team.See also: cull, of, outcull someone or something out of something and cull someone or something outto eliminate someone or something from a group. We will cull the older pigeons out from the flock. They culled out the slower runners from the team.See also: cull, of, outcull n. a socially unacceptable person. This place is so filled with culls! Let’s split. Cull
cull[kəl] (chemical engineering) In a plastics molding operation, material remaining in the transfer chamber after the mold has been filled. (science and technology) Material rejected for being below standard grade. CullAny building material rejected as being below standard quality.cull, brack, wrackA piece of lumber or brick of a quality below the lowest accepted grade or below specifications.cull
cull - to take out (an animal, especially an inferior one) from a herd.
- to reduce the numbers of a population of animals by killing them, e.g. seal culls.
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Synonyms for cullverb selectSynonyms- select
- collect
- gather
- amass
- choose
- pick
- pick up
- pluck
- glean
- cherry-pick
verb slaughterSynonyms- slaughter
- kill
- destroy
- butcher
- slay
- exterminate
- thin out
Synonyms for cullverb to make a choice from a number of alternativesSynonyms- choose
- elect
- opt
- pick
- select
- single
verb to collect (something) bit by bitSynonyms- extract
- garner
- gather
- glean
- pick up
Synonyms for cullnoun the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in qualitySynonymsRelated Wordsverb remove something that has been rejectedRelated Wordsverb look for and gatherSynonymsRelated Words- gather
- pull together
- collect
- garner
- mushroom
- berry
- cull out
- winnow
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