Cull

Definition: Cull

Cull

Noun

1. The person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality.

Verb

1. Remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd".

2. Look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cull" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Cull \Cull\ (k?l), transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Culled; Culling.]. (Websters 1913)

Food & Agriculture

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cull

Choice

Select; pick and choose; pick out, single out; cull, glean, winnow; sift the chaff from the wheat, separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; pick up, pitch upon; pick one's way; indulge one;s fancy.

Dupe

Noun: dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull, cully, victim, pigeon, April fool; jay, sucker; laughingstock; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool; puppet, cat's paw.

Fewness

Render few; Adjective: reduce, diminish the number, weed, eliminate, cull, thin, decimate.

Taking

Reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather; (get); draw.

Crosswords: Cull

Books

• Report to the Honourable Elizabeth Cull, Minister of Health and Minister Responsible for Seniors and Ms. Judi Korbin, Commissioner of Inquiry into the Public Service and Public Sector (reference)

• Seal cull : the grey seal controversy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Tarruinn Anmoch (Late Cull) [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hurry!! Cull your hens, reduce feed bills. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Political Economy

UNITED KINGDOM

This is approximately 13 percent of the total livestock population in the country, although the majority of the cull is sheep. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "cull": cull out ♦ seal cull. Additional references.

Albanian

zgjedh (choose, constitute, disentangle, draft, draught, elect, embrace, opt, pick, pick out, select, single out, solve, take), gjëra bajate. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قطف (pick, picking season, pluck), ‏إنتخب (elect, pick out, poll, select, vote, vote in), ‏إختار (choose, discriminate, elect, name, nominate, opt, pack, pick out, plump for, pronounce, select, single, slate, tag, take, tap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отделям (abstract, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), бракувам (condemn, dispense, reject, scrap), подбирам (assail, extract, go for smb., herd, match, pick, pick out, pick over, rail at, round up, select, winnow), избирам (choose, elect, make, mark down, name, opt, pick, pick out, put in, return, select, settle on, single out, sort out). (various references)

Chinese 

拣掉 (Culled, Culling, Culls). (various references)

Czech

vybrat (choose, clear, look for, scoop, select, shell out, single out, tell off, withdraw), natrhat. (various references)

Danish

vrag (reject, scrap, waster, wreck), udskud (broke, refuse parts, reject, rejects, sixths, waste), udsaetterdyr (animal to be culled, culled animal), overskudstræ (reject), fradrag for fejl, affaldstræ (reject). (various references)

Dutch

weigeren (refuse, reject), wat afwijkt (reject), verwerpen (condemn, disapprove, disapprove of, rebuke, reject), uitschot (garbage, leavings, refuse, rubbish, waste), geëlimineerd dier (culled animal), afwijzen (refuse, reject), afval compensatie, afval bij transferpersen, aftrek voor afval, aanspuitrest bij transferpersen. (various references)

Farsi 

گلچین کردن (Excerpt, Pluck, Tab), جمع اوری کردن (Levy, Mass, Muster, Rake, Reap). (various references)

Finnish

raakki (reject), poistettu eläin (culled animal), karsittu eläin (culled animal), jätetappi, hylkypuu (waste timber). (various references)

French

culot, cueillir, sélectionner, rebut (cullwood), réfaction, déchet de bois (cullwood), bois de rebut, bête de réforme (animal to be culled, culled animal), animal de réforme (culled animal), élire. (various references)

German

pflücken (gather, pick, pick off, pluck, tear off, to gather, to pluck). (various references)

Greek 

κοπίδι (chisel, cutter), σκάρτο (reject), ξυλεία υπολειμμάτων πρίσεως (reject), εκλέγω (choose, constitute, elect, excerpt, extract, select), εκλογή (choice, election, pick, selection), απόρριμμα (scrap), αποκλεισθέν ζώο (culled animal), Αναγωγή, δρέπω (crop, pick, reap). (various references)

Hebrew 

ללקט (collect, compile, gather, glean, pick), לקטוף (pick, pluck), לברור (choose, clarify, opt, pick out, single out). (various references)

Hungarian

kiválaszt (choose, excrete, exude, pick out, secrete, sort out, to cut out, to designate, to excrete, to exude, to predestinate, to select, to separate, to single out, to sort), kiszemel (choose, mark out, pick out, single out, to cull, to pick on, to pick out, to prick, to single out). (various references)

Indonesian

memetik (pick, pluck). (various references)

Italian

cogliere (catch, gather, get, hit, Nick, overtake, pick, pick off, pluck, snatch, take), selezione (choice, picking, screening, selection), selezionare (choose, pick out, pick over, screen, select, sort), scelta (alternative, bet, choice, election, option, pick, picking, selection), scegliere (choose, elect, pick, pick out, select, single, single out, to choose), scarto (board, difference, discard, margin, reject, rejection, run out, scrap, wastage, waste), scarti (refuse), rifiuti (garbage, litter, offal, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, swill, trash), materozza (biscuit, core, deadhead, dead-head, hot top, slug, sprue, stub end), materiale di scarto (cullwood, discard, offcut, reject, scrap, waste), legno di scarto (reject), deduzione (deduction, inference), bestia eliminata (culled animal), animale scartato. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"引く (to cull, to run on a curtailed schedule, to thin out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まびく (to cull, to run on a curtailed schedule, to thin out). (various references)

Manx

teiy (ballot, balloting, choice, choose, cream, cream best, discrimination, division; tomahawk, gather, highlight; selection, pick, pick over, poll; prime, select, vote), jeelym (collection, gleanings, residue, selection). (various references)

Pig Latin

ullcay

Portuguese

selecionar (choose, draft, draught, grade, mark, pick, pick out, pick up, select, single, sort, take), refugo (dirt, garbage, jetsam, mullock, offal, offscourings, raffle, refuse, reject, riffraff, rubbish, scum, spoilage, trash, trumpery, waste), produtos rejeitados (reject), escolher (adopt, choose, elect, like, list, opt, pick, pick out, run up, select, single, sort, sort out, take, to choose), desperdícios florestais (reject), desperdício de moldação, arredondamento por defeito do volume, animal de reforma (culled animal). (various references)

Romanian

culege (collect, compose, crop, gather, glean, mow, pick, pick up, pluck, reap, set up, take up), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), spicui (glean), selecta (choose, garble, pick, select), rupe (break, break off, break smth. in pieces, declare off, dismember, disrupt, gather, lacerate, open, pull, pull apart, rend, rift, rip, scatter, separate, sever, snap, splinter, split, stop, tear, uproot), alege (appear, become, choose, churn, decide, distinguish, elect, extract, glean, Peel, pick, pick on, pick out, refuse, reject, remain, result, return, screen, select, separate, shell, sift, single out, sort, sunder, take one's choice, winnow). (various references)

Russian 

собирать (amass, assemble, build up, collect, congregate, convene, convoke, erect, gather, get together, levy, make up, pick, pick up, raise, scoop in, scoop up), отбирать (adeem, adeemed, choose, handpick, pick, select, single out, sort out, staple, tell off, weed away, weed out). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odabrati (pick, pick out, select, tell off). (various references)

Spanish

desecho (cast off, discard, dross, refuse, reject, rejected article, rubbish, throw out). (various references)

Swedish

plocka (deplume, gather, Peck, pick, pluck). (various references)

Turkish

toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), toplama (addition, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, casting-up, catchment, collecting, collection, concentration, congregation, convention, gathering, gleanings, grouping, picking, rallying, roundup, summation), seçmek (adopt, be particular about, choose, co opt, constitute, coopt, decide on, decide up, descry, distinguish, elect, hand-pick, intend, intend for, look out, opt, perceive, pick, pick out, plump for, postulate, select, single out, spot), işe yaramayan hayvanları öldürmek, ayırma (abstraction, appropriation, assortment, combout, detachment, dissociation, distinction, division, estrangement, fractionation, insularity, isolation, partition, reduction, resolution, screening, segregation, segregative, seperation, sequestration, severance, sunder, sunderance, throw out, turn off), ıskartaya çıkarmak (discard, reject, scrap), ıskarta (discard, reject, rejection, throw out, waste product, waster, wastrel, weedy). (various references)

Ukrainian

відходи (shorts, waste), відбраковувати, міцно обіймати (cuddle, hug), збирати (agglomerate, amass, assemble, bag, canvass, carry, collect, compile, congregate, convene, convoke, gather, gather in, levy, make up, muster, pick, pick in, summon, win), покидьки (cast, dross, offal, offscum, outcast, overcast, paltry, peltry, refuse, rejectamenta, scruff, trash). (various references)

Vietnamese 

súc vật loại ra để thịt. (various references)

colligere, depascatur, depasci, depasti, depastus, runco. (various references)

coillir, trier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cull": cullay, cullays, culled, cullender, cullenders, culler, cullers, cullet, cullets, cullied, cullies, culling, cullion, cullions, cullis, cullises, culls, cully, cullying. (additional references)

Words ending with "cull": scull. (additional references)

Words containing "cull": cucullate, portcullis, portcullises, sculled, sculler, sculleries, scullers, scullery, sculling, scullion, scullions, sculls. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cull" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aull, Calil, caulli, cbl, cfl, chl, chull, Ciullo, ckl, clu, cluj, collf, cual, cuel, Cula, culd, cule, culf, Cullum, culn, culo, culp, culy, cuul, cxl, cyl, eull, koll, Kul, kull, kulla, ucl, ucli. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

+1 letter: culls, cully, scull.

+2 letters: callus, cullay, culled, culler, cullet, cullis, locule, loculi, sculls, sulcal.

+3 letters: bullace, bullock, calculi, callous, cellule, chillum, clausal, collude, columel, cruelly, cruller, cullays, cullers, cullets, cullied, cullies, culling, cullion, curlily, ducally, lacunal, locular, loculed, locules, loculus, lucidly, luckily, mollusc, mullock, nucelli, nucleal, ocellus, sculled, sculler, subcell.

+4 letters: actually, bacillus, brucella, buccally, bullaces, bullneck, bullocks, bullocky, calculus, callused, calluses, calyculi, casually, caudally, caudillo, caulicle, causally, cellular, cellules, chillums, cloudily, cloudlet, clubable, clubhaul, clueless, clumsily, collogue, colloquy, colluded, colluder, colludes, colluvia, colorful, columels, columnal, coquille, crueller, crullers, cullions, cullises, cullying, culpable, culpably, cultlike, cultural, cupelled, cupeller, duckbill, dulcetly, floccule, flocculi, fullback, fullface, halluces, loculate, locustal, lodicule, lubrical, lucently, luckless, luculent, molecule, molluscs, mullocks, mullocky, nucellar, nucellus, nucleole, nucleoli, occlusal, occultly, ocularly, pellucid, pluckily, publicly, pullback, scullers, scullery, sculling, scullion, scutella, silicula, skullcap, subcells, telluric, uncalled, uncially, wellcurb.