cull
21cull — 1. verb /kʌl/ a) To pick someone or something. b) To take someone or something (from somewhere). 2. noun /kʌl/ a) A selection …
22cull — Synonyms and related words: abscind, accumulate, amass, amputate, annihilate, assemble, ban, bar, bob, bolt, bring together, choose out, clip, collect, cordon, cordon off, crop, cull out, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, decide between, dig up,… …
23cull — [15] Ultimately, cull is the same word as collect. It comes via Old French cuillir from Latin colligere ‘gather together’, whose past participial stem collēct formed the original basis of English collect. The Latin verb was a compound formed from …
24cull — 1 verb 1 (T) formal to find or choose information from many different places: cull sth from: photographs culled from various sources 2 (I, T) to kill the weakest animals in a group so that the size of the group does not increase too much 3… …
25cull — [kʌl] verb [T] I 1) to collect something such as information from different places 2) to kill animals in order to stop the population from becoming too large II noun [C] cull [kʌl] an act of culling animals …
26cull — [[t]kʌl[/t]] 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 • Etymology: 1300–50; ME < AF, OF cuillir < L colligere to gather… …
27cull (to) — Reject the lowest quality items. ► “Pringle’s decision to return to core values and cull wasteful diversification is the right one.” (Marketing, April 6, 1995, p. 13) …
28cull — n. a socially unacceptable person. □ Who’s the cull driving the Edsel? □ This place is filled with culls. Let’s split …
29cull — [15] Ultimately, cull is the same word as collect. It comes via Old French cuillir from Latin colligere ‘gather together’, whose past participial stem collēct formed the original basis of English collect. The Latin verb was a compound formed from …
30cull — a small fish with a great head, found under stones in rivulets, called also a bull head. Glouc. To cull, to pick and choose. Kent and S …
