cull

/kʌl/

Thân thiện

The farmer must cull the weak plants from the garden.

Definition

1. Verb:

   • To select or gather from a group, especially the best or most desirable items: This involves choosing specific things from a larger collection, often based on quality.
   • To remove or kill (animals or plants) from a group, especially to reduce numbers or improve quality: This involves selectively removing inferior, sick, or surplus members from a herd, flock, or population.

2. Noun:

   • Something, especially an inferior or surplus animal, removed from a group: This refers to the item or individual that has been selected for removal.

Examples of Usage

• Verb (Select/Gather):

  • The chef will cull the ripest tomatoes for the sauce.
  • She culled the most relevant data from the extensive report.

• Verb (Remove from a group):

  • To prevent the spread of disease, farmers must cull infected poultry.
  • The park service had to cull the deer population to protect the local ecosystem.

• Noun:

  • The sickly calves were marked as culls.
  • The cull from the orchard was used to make cider.

Advanced Usage

• "To cull information from": to gather or extract information carefully from various sources.

  • The researcher culled key facts from centuries-old archives.

• "A management cull": a planned, selective reduction of an animal population for conservation or agricultural purposes.

  • The management cull of invasive species helped native plants to recover.

Variants and Related Words

• Culling (n): The act or process of selecting and removing.
  • The annual culling of the herd ensures its overall health.

Synonyms

• Verb (Select): Choose, pick, select, gather, harvest.
• Verb (Remove): Weed out, eliminate, thin, slaughter (in the context of animals).
• Noun: Reject, discard, culling.

Related Phrases

• "Cull out": (Phrasal verb) To remove undesirable items from a group.
  • We need to cull out the damaged books from the library collection.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

Verb

1. look for and gather
   • pick mushrooms
   • pick flowers
2. remove something that has been rejected
   • cull the sick members of the herd

Từ đồng nghĩa

• reject
• pick
• pluck