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cull

(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).

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.

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cull

(kʌl)

vb (tr)

1. to choose or gather the best or required examples

2. (Agriculture) to take out (an animal, esp an inferior one) from a herd

3. (Agriculture) to reduce the size of (a herd or flock) by killing a proportion of its members

4. (Horticulture) to gather (flowers, fruit, etc)

5. to cease to employ; get rid of

6. the act or product of culling

7. (Agriculture) an inferior animal taken from a herd or group

[C15: from Old French coillir to pick, from Latin colligere; see collect¹]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

cull

(kʌl)

v.t.

1. to choose; select; pick.

2. to gather the choice things or parts from.

3. to collect; gather; pluck.

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

Imperative
cull
cull

Present
I cull
you cull
he/she/it culls
we cull
you cull
they cull

Preterite
I culled
you culled
he/she/it culled
we culled
you culled
they culled

Present Continuous
I am culling
you are culling
he/she/it is culling
we are culling
you are culling
they are culling

Present Perfect
I have culled
you have culled
he/she/it has culled
we have culled
you have culled
they have culled

Past Continuous
I was culling
you were culling
he/she/it was culling
we were culling
you were culling
they were culling

Past Perfect
I had culled
you had culled
he/she/it had culled
we had culled
you had culled
they had culled

Future
I will cull
you will cull
he/she/it will cull
we will cull
you will cull
they will cull

Future Perfect
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
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
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
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

Past Perfect Continuous
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
I would cull
you would cull
he/she/it would cull
we would cull
you would cull
they would cull

Past Conditional
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

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Noun	1.	cull - the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality reject deciding, 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, pluck gather, 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"

cull

verb

1. 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.

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cull

verb

1. 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.

Translations

قَتْل الحَيوانات الزائِدَهيُجَمِّـعينْتَقي ويَقتُل

mítitprobíratprobírkasbírat

frasorterefrasorteringudrenseudrensning

aussuchen karden pflücken

szed

grisja; velja úr og drepagrisjuntína, safna saman

sfoltire

atrankinis naikinimasatrinkus naikintiparinkti

atlasītatšaušanaatšautizbrāķēšana un nokaušanaizbrāķēt un nokaut

håndplukke plukke skille ut slakting av overtallige dyr søke seg ut

vyhubenie

itlâf etmeköldürmetoplamak

剔去剔除淘汰精选采集

cull

[kʌl]

A. VT (= select) [+ fruit] → entresacar; [+ flowers] → coger; (= kill selectively) [+ deer, seals] → matar selectivamente

B. N [of deer, seals] → matanza f selectiva
seal cull → matanza f selectiva de focas

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cull

[ˈkʌl]

[+ animals] (= kill selectively) → procéder à l'abattage sélectif de (= slaughter) → abattre
to cull a flock → procéder à un abattage sélectif pour contrôler un troupeau

(= select) → sélectionner
to cull information from sth → tirer des informations de qch

n [animals] (= selective killing) → abattage m sélectif, élimination f sélective (= slaughter) → massacre m, abattage m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cull

(= selection) → Auswahl f

(= killing of surplus) Erlegen überschüssiger Tierbestände, → Reduktionsabschuss m; cull of seals → Robbenschlag m

(= rejected item) → Ausschuss m

(= collect) → entnehmen (→ from +dat); legends → (zusammen)sammeln (from aus)

(= kill as surplus) → (als überschüssig) erlegen; to cull seals → Robbenschlag m → betreiben

(= pick) flowers → pflücken

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cull

[kʌl]

1. vt (select, fruit) → scegliere; (kill selectively, animals) → selezionare e abbattere

2. n → selezione f
seal cull → abbattimento selettivo delle foche

cull

(kal) verb

1. to gather or collect.

2. to select and kill (surplus animals). They are culling the kangaroos.

noun

an act of killing surplus animals.

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The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d--n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.

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Sometimes they cut down trees of the largest size and then cull the branches, the bark of which is most to their taste.

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It is good to set before us, the incommodities and commodities of usury, that the good, may be either weighed out or culled out; and warily to provide, that while we make forth to that which is better, we meet not with that which is worse.

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From that little book of mine I have culled the following passage, and written it down for you to see.

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He drew up lists of effective and fetching mannerisms, till out of many such, culled from many writers, he was able to induce the general principle of mannerism, and, thus equipped, to cast about for new and original ones of his own, and to weigh and measure and appraise them properly.

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This one delectable evening culled from each dull seventy was to Chandler a source of renascent bliss.

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Two of our boats, with men all safe, we took off the Cisco, and, to Wolf Larsen's huge delight and my own grief, he culled Smoke, with Nilson and Leach, from the San Diego.

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He is so gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated, and when he speaks, although his words are culled with the choicest art, yet they How with rapidity and unparalleled eloquence.

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The "pro" cull lobby site the high level of bovine TB infection discovered in badgers at WITH MARTIN PATERSON OF DONALDSON'S VETS post mortem.

Badger cull debates lacking in facts

A green light has also been given to cull badgers in Cumbria to tackle a "pocket of infection" in a region which is otherwise at low risk of the disease, as licences are issued allowing the culling of tens of thousands of animals.

More badger culling approved

While the NGC is a valuable indicator of temporal trends in regional fox numbers (Battersby 2005), cull data may also contain information about the rate of replacement of culled foxes by immigration at local scales.

Quantifying the rate of replacement by immigration during restricted-area control of red fox in different landscapes

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