Meaning of CULL
| Pronunciation: | | kul
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] the person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
- [v] look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"
- [v] remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd"
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CULL is a 4 letter word that starts with C. |
| | Synonyms: | | pick, pluck, reject |
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| | See Also: | | berry, catch, collect, cull out, deciding, decision making, discover, find out, garner, gather, get a line, get rid of, get wind, get word, hear, learn, mushroom, pick off, pick over, pick up, pull off, pull together, receive, remove, see, sieve out, tweak | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Cull\ (k?l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Culled} (k?ld); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Culling}.] [OE. cullen, OF. cuillir, coillir, F.
cueillir, to gather, pluck, pick, fr. L. colligere. See
{Coil}, v. t., and cf. {Collect}.]
To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or
collect; as, to cull flowers.
From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest
of his bulls. --Dryden.
Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled. --Tennyson.
\Cull\, n.
A cully; a dupe; a gull. See {Cully}.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, discriminate, divide, dock, elect, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, except, excerpt, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, extract, garner, gather, gather in, get in, get together, ghettoize, gin, glean, grub, grub up, handpick, insulate, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, knock off, lay aside, lop, make a selection, mark, mutilate, nip, opt for, pare, peel, pick, pick out, pick up, pluck, prefer, prune, put aside, quarantine, rake up, riddle, root out, round up, rule out, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, screen, seclude, segregate, select, separate, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, sieve, sift, single out, sort out, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, take, take off, take out, take up, thrash, thresh, truncate, winnow, wipe out |
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