Pronunciations (2)
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/kʌl/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/kʊl/
Pronunciation notes
- Northern-England
Verb
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
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1984, cover star: JOE DALLESANDRO culled from Andy Warhol's FLESH — anonymous; sleeve notes from The Smiths' eponymous album
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Likewise, performances culled mostly from the night's winning acts - with no special guests or even much in the way of mashups, a longtime AMA specialty - provided a much-needed shot in the arm for a reeling local populace.
To gather, collect.
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[T]he yellowbanded bees, / Through half-open lattices / Coming in the scented breeze, / Fed thee, a child, lying alone, / With whitest honey in fairy gardens culled— […]
Chaucer's prose Tale of Melibee […] is a dialectal homily of moral debate, exhibiting a learned store of ethical precept culled from many ancient authorities.
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There had been an effort a few years back by an artist no one had then heard of—a British New Yorker named Craig Ward, who had been inspired by a friend's photograph of the bacteria in her son's handprint to take to the New York subways to cull bacteria for himself. He'd brought back the microorganism samples in petri dishes that he filled with a jellylike substance that would continue to feed the bacteria, and let the human stories ripen in the heat throughout the summer.
To select (animals, plants, etc) from a group and then kill (them) in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
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[…] and tropical ash (81 percent of trees culled). Excessive lean, the second major culling factor, accounted for […] 13 percent of the tropical ash cull trees, and […]
To kill (an animal, person, etc) for any reason.
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Berzin was then replaced by Stiepan Garanin, who was culled for being a 'Japanese spy' (although the uneducated Garanin pleaded to his torturers that he had never even heard of Japan); Garanin was then replaced by Andrei Vyshnyevtsky, who was culled for being insufficiently murderous; Vyshnyevtsky was then replaced by Ivan Nikishov, who was culled for no reason at all, just after Stalin had slyly decorated him with the 'Order of the Hero of the Soviet Union'; […]
To lay off in order to reduce the numbers of; get rid of.
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The company culled more employees this month.
To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
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back-face culling
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"Will cull any objects further from the camera than a given distance. When used in combination with camera frustum culling, this can be used to avoid culling nearby objects that are outside the camera frustum, but still visible in reflections. It is also useful to cull small objects far from the camera."
Noun
A selection.
An organized killing of selected animals.
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It seemed that the sun shone and all was right in our Blakean islands until the government began to set in motion its promised cull of badgers in an effort to control bovine TB. Salvation for brock came in the form of an online petition started by Queen guitarist Brian May, the rising costs of the programme and the weather.
An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
A lobster having only one claw.
A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
Noun
A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
Usage- dialectal
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Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat.
A man or boy.
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- Obsolete
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But you don't want no dealings with that cull. A darker villain I never did see.
Noun
the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
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Verb
remove something that has been rejected
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cull the sick members of the herd
look for and gather
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pick mushrooms
pick flowers