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1. : to select from a group : choose. culled the best passages from the poet's work. Damaged fruits are culled before the produce is shipped. 2. : to reduce or control the size of (something, such as a herd) by removal (as by hunting or slaughter) of especially weak or sick individuals.
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)
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.
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.
cull meaning, definition, what is cull: to kill animals so that there are not to...: Learn more.
CULL definition: to kill some of the animals in a group, especially the weakest ones, to limit their numbers. Learn more.
Definition of 'cull' Word Frequency. cull. (kʌl ) Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense culls, present participle culling, past tense, past participle culled. 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.
To select and gather (flowers or fruit); pick. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To examine (a collection or group) in order to select desired parts or, esp., to discard or destroy unwanted parts. To cull a herd. Webster's New World.
