cull

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
2. To gather, collect.
3. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
4. (euphemistic, nonstandard) To kill (animals etc).
5. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
6. To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.

Noun

1. A selection.
2. An organized killing of selected animals.
3. An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
4. A lobster having only one claw.
5. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.

Noun

1. (dialectal, slang) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
2. (UK, obsolete, slang) A man or boy.

Concepts

cueillir

vanner

trier

réforme

bois de rebut

éléminer

glaner

rejet

séléctionner

réforme des animaux

choisir

secouer légèrement

abattage

carder

Synonymes

pick

⛏️

pluck

select

choose

gather

winnow

elect

reject

pick up

sort

pick out

prefer

reap

selection

cross out

crush

culling

cut out

draw away

drive out

edit

eject

election

eliminate

excerpt

excise

expunge

extirpate

extract

harvest

hollow out

kill

🔪🩸👤

lift

lop

mark

obviate

pick off

preclude

pull

purge

remove

rid of

scratch out

sift

stem

strike

strike off

strike out

strip

take

Traductions

pflücken

⛏️

raccogliere

cogliere

⛏️

escoger

toplamak

scarto

seleccionar

apanhar

cebón

neqandin

plukken

catar

δρέπω

runco

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kʌl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: cullen

In summary

From Middle English cullen, cuilen, coilen, from Old French cuillir (“collect, gather, select”), from Latin colligō (“gather together”). Doublet of coil.