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- DictionaryCull/kəl/
verb
- 1. select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources: "anecdotes culled from Greek and Roman history"
noun
- 1. a selective slaughter of wild animals: "fishermen are to campaign for a seal cull"
The meaning of CULL is to select from a group : choose. How to use cull in a sentence.
to collect parts or pieces of something to use for another purpose: She went to strange lands to cull recipes for her book. If you cull animals or plants, you kill or remove them: to cull growing herds before they run out of food. culling dead timber. (Definition of cull from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Cull definition: to select and remove from a group, especially to discard or destroy as inferior. See examples of CULL used in a sentence.
To cull means to select or gather. If you decide to make a literary anthology, you must cull the best possible stories and then arrange them in a pleasing manner. When you use cull as a verb, the things you gather can be the good or bad ones from a group.
to collect parts or pieces of something to use for another purpose: She went to strange lands to cull recipes for her book. If you cull animals or plants, you kill or remove them: to cull growing herds before they run out of food. culling dead timber. (Definition of cull from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Cull Definition. To pick out; select. To cull facts from an encyclopedia. To pick out in order to discard or destroy. A librarian culled unneeded books. To select and gather (flowers or fruit); pick. To examine (a collection or group) in order to select desired parts or, esp., to discard or destroy unwanted parts.
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.
Definition of cull verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
5 days ago · 1. transitive verb [usu passive] 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. Synonyms: select, collect, gather, amass More Synonyms of cull. 2. transitive verb.
cull meaning, definition, what is cull: to kill animals so that there are not to...: Learn more.
