cull

[ kuhl ]

/ kʌl /

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verb (used with object)

to choose; select; pick.

to gather the choice things or parts from.

to collect; gather; pluck.

noun

act of culling.

something culled, especially something picked out and put aside as inferior.

Words nearby cull

culicifuge, culicoides, culinarian, culinary, culion, cull, cullen, cullen's sign, cullender, culler, cullet

Origin of cull

1300–50; Middle English coilen, cuilen, cullen < Anglo-French, Old French cuillir < Latin colligere to gather; see collect¹

SYNONYMS FOR cull

2 glean, extract.

3 garner, winnow.

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OTHER WORDS FROM cull

cull·er, nounout·cull, verb (used with object)o·ver·cull, verb (used with object)un·culled, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH cull

call caul cull

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Examples from the Web for culled

White-bread ISIS recruits, culled from the wastelands of Web 2.0, call that tidy division into terrible question.
The FBI’s Bogus ISIS Bust|James Poulos|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Her songs, which she cowrote with songwriter-producer Joel Little, are all culled from real-life experiences.
Meet Lorde, the 16-Year-Old Singer Poised to Take Over Pop Music|Marlow Stern|July 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Here are six questions (and answers) culled from our conversation.
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But the data Republicans culled are much more granular than that.
Budget Balancing and Jobs: It's the Other Way Around!|Michael Tomasky|March 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The vast majority of the data for the report is culled from documents from U.S. federal court cases.
Report: Majority of Convicted Terrorists in U.S. Are American Citizens|Eli Lake|February 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Or, if one prefers to laugh at the experience of a "culled" brother, what can be found more irresistible than this?
The Wit of Women|Kate Sanborn
At the far end of this courtyard a shadowy pavilion arose, culled from the Stygian gloom by the sheen of the lightnings.
Under the Witches' Moon|Nathan Gallizier
These names are culled from various authors, no one author having given us a list of them.
Rambles in Rome|S. Russell Forbes
French school, culled from the annual Salons and presented to the museum by the State.
A Little Tour in France|Henry James
Each had a small Mexican basket, and culled as rapidly as possible; the positions they were forced to assume were not comfortable.
A Daughter of the Vine|Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

British Dictionary definitions for culled

cull

/ (kʌl) /

verb (tr)

to choose or gather the best or required examples

to take out (an animal, esp an inferior one) from a herd

to reduce the size of (a herd or flock) by killing a proportion of its members

to gather (flowers, fruit, etc)

to cease to employ; get rid of

noun

the act or product of culling

an inferior animal taken from a herd or group

Word Origin for cull

C15: from Old French coillir to pick, from Latin colligere; see collect 1

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