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Definition: CULLS |
CULLSTransitive verb1. Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked. 2. Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out. |
Date "CULLS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Relinquishment | Discards, culls, rejects; garbage, refuse, rubbish. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CULLS |
| English words defined with "CULLS": Culling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CULLS": CHAUNTER CULLS, core feeder ♦ FARMWORKER, DIVERSIFIED CROPS II ♦ GLUE SPREADER, VENEER, glue-spreader operator ♦ HIGH-DENSITY FINISHING OPERATOR ♦ MADGE CULLS ♦ veneer gluer, VETERINARIAN, POULTRY. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Emptying potatoes from baskets into bags. Each bag takes two baskets and weighs about seventy pounds, ten pounds of which are calculated as culls. Near East Grand Forks, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "CULLS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "CULLS" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CULLS": packing house culls. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "CULLS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 拣掉 (Cull, Culled, Culling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | frasorterede druer (packing house culls, rejected grapes, rejects). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | afgekeurde druiven (packing house culls, rejected grapes, rejects). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hylätty rypäle (packing house culls, rejected grapes, rejects). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | triaire, écart de triage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | pflückt (picks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | scarto (board, difference, discard, margin, reject, rejection, run out, scrap, wastage, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ullscay trilha (cross-country, trail), escolha (adoption, assortment, choice, choose, election, pick, refusal, selection). (various references) rehus (rejects). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CULLS": sculls. (additional references) | |
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"CULLS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: callls, Cilss, Ciullo, cls, cluless, colles, collf, cullest, culn, culs, Culsh, culy, cupless, kulls, ucl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: scull. | |
| Words within the letters "c-l-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cull. | |
-3 letters: us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: callus, cullis, sculls, sulcal. | |
+2 letters: callous, clausal, cullays, cullers, cullets, cullies, locules, loculus, mollusc, ocellus, sculled, sculler, subcell. | |
+3 letters: bacillus, bullaces, bullocks, calculus, callused, calluses, casually, causally, cellules, chillums, clueless, clumsily, colludes, columels, crullers, cullions, cullises, halluces, locustal, luckless, molluscs, mullocks, nucellus, occlusal, scullers, scullery, sculling, scullion, scutella, silicula, skullcap, subcells. | |
+4 letters: brucellas, bullnecks, calculous, calloused, callouses, callously, callusing, calyculus, caudillos, caulicles, cellulase, cellulose, claustral, closetful, cloudless, cloudlets, clubhauls, collogues, colluders, collusion, collusive, coquilles, cruellest, cultishly, cupellers, duckbills, floccules, flocculus, fullbacks, fullfaces, lodicules, molecules, molluscan, musically, nucleoles, nucleolus, pullbacks, scullions, scungilli, scutellar, scutellum, secularly, siliculae, siliculas, skullcaps, slouchily, subcellar, wellcurbs. | |
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