cull (verb)
1cull — ► VERB 1) reduce the numbers of (animals) by selective slaughter. 2) select or obtain from a large quantity or a variety of sources. ► NOUN ▪ a selective slaughter of animals. ORIGIN Old French coillier, from Latin colligere gather together …
2cull — Ⅰ. cull UK US /kʌl/ verb [T] INFORMAL WORKPLACE ► to reduce the number of people that work for a particular company by a large amount: »The programme of redundancies was intended to cull 1000 jobs. »The company has culled 1,900 people from its… …
3cull out — verb 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 • Syn: ↑winnow • Hypernyms: ↑choose, ↑take, ↑select, ↑ …
4cull — I verb accumulate, amass, carpere, choose, collect, decerpere, gather, glean, legere, make a selection, pick, pick out, pluck, round up, select, separate, sift, single out, sort out, winnow II index choose …
5cull — verb 1》 reduce the population of (a wild animal) by selective slaughter. ↘send (an unwanted farm animal) to be slaughtered. 2》 obtain from a variety of sources: anecdotes culled from Greek and Roman history. noun a selective slaughter of wild …
6cull — [[t]kʌ̱l[/t]] culls, culling, culled 1) VERB If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together. [be V ed from n] All this, needless to say, had been culled second hand from radio… …
7cull — I UK [kʌl] / US verb [transitive] Word forms cull : present tense I/you/we/they cull he/she/it culls present participle culling past tense culled past participle culled 1) to collect something such as information from different places recipes… …
8cull — cull1 [ kʌl ] verb transitive 1. ) to collect something such as information from different places: recipes culled from magazines 2. ) to kill animals deliberately, especially in order to stop the population from becoming too large cull cull 2 [… …
9cull — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun Cull is used after these nouns: ↑seal {{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} verb Cull is used with these nouns as the object: ↑elephant, ↑seal …
10cull — I. /kʌl / (say kul) verb (t) 1. to choose; select; pick; gather the choice things or parts from. 2. to collect; gather; pluck. 3. to remove animals of inferior quality from (a herd or flock). 4. to kill (animals, as deer, kangaroos, etc.), with a …
