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culled

[kuhl]

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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.

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

Related forms

cull·er, noun

out·cull, verb (used with object)

o·ver·cull, verb (used with object)

un·culled, adjective

Can be confused: call, caul, cull (see synonym note at call).

Synonyms
2. glean, extract. 3. garner, winnow.

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Example Sentences

The exhibition comprises a magnificent display of the chief art treasures of the city culled from private collections.

To do so would have been to violate the integrity of their method and thought processes, culled up from within them individually.

Instead they culled data from national employment records and local population registers.

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The exhibition comprises a magnificent display of the chief art treasures of the city culled from private collections.

To do so would have been to violate the integrity of their method and thought processes, culled up from within them individually.

Instead they culled data from national employment records and local population registers.

The wave action has steepened the angle of the sea floor and culled the shoreline.

Leroy vigorously argues that bats should not be culled.

They culled nine and actually thought they got the whole pack.

Here's a partial rundown culled from various sources.

Much of the information about the gambling ring was culled from electronic surveillance, he said.

So daft strategies fester rather than getting culled quickly.

Each lesson will be devoted to an observation culled from among the many exploits of the great detective.

His sonic palette includes sounds culled from sources as simple as sand and as drastic as a burning piano.

The lawyer questioned the judge's decision to strike testimony culled from another defense attorney's cross-examination.

From this he has culled seven preconditions for economic decline in the leading power.

The figures don't account for especially immobile birds, which are routinely culled from the population.

The archdiocese staff that handles the appeal culled mailing lists as more people said they would not pledge.

New chief executives have culled underperforming operations and focused on growth, often abroad.

Other featured guests seemed randomly culled from sci-fi-related shows.

Manhattan hardly needs another uptown fair packed with carefully culled artworks.

Still, the possibilities for measuring and estimating economic indicators based on data culled from the internet are exciting.

Here's a partial rundown culled from various sources including.

The information about the artist and video is culled from interviews with directors, producers and extensive trivia research.

The report suggests that managers culled a share from the tips paid to waiting staff without those staff knowing.

In between trips, the truck that carried the culled fruit back and forth to the cattle farm was parked next to the packing house.

The world would be poorer and more polluted if the population were culled.

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Word Origin & History

cull

early 14c., originally "put through a strainer," from O.Fr. coillir "collect, gather, select," from L. colligere "gather together," originally "choose, select" (see collect).

Slang Dictionary

cull definition

n.
a socially unacceptable person. : This place is so filled with culls! Let's split.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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