cull

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /kʌl/ (Northern England) IPA(key): /kʊl/ Rhymes: -ʌl === Etymology 1 === From Middle English cullen, cuilen, coilen, from Old French cuillir (“collect, gather, select”), from Latin colligō (“gather together”). Doublet of coil. ==== Verb ==== cull (third-person singular simple present culls, present participle culling, simple past and past participle culled) To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group). Synonym: cherry-pick 1984, cover star: JOE DALLESANDRO culled from Andy Warhol's FLESH — anonymous; sleeve notes from The Smiths' eponymous album To gather, collect. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner. (Should we delete(+) this redundant sense?) (by extension) To kill (animals, etc). (Can we verify(+) this sense?) To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of. (computer graphics) To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== cull (plural culls) A selection. An organized killing of selected animals. (agriculture) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded. (seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Perhaps an abbreviation of cully. ==== Noun ==== cull (plural culls) (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe. (UK, slang, obsolete) A man or boy. ===== Synonyms ===== See also Thesaurus:dupe ===== Derived terms ===== ===== References ===== John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary == Albanian == === Alternative forms === çull === Etymology === Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g(')elt- (“womb”). Compare Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Old English child. Çabej links the original meaning to skin, still present is some dialects as cull e mull (literally skin and belly, metaphorically big and small, all of them). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [t͡suɫ] === Noun === cull m (plural cullë, definite culli, definite plural cullët) (Gheg) boy, child ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== cullak cupllak cullakoj cullakos cullakosje picllak picpicullak picipillaksoj cullë culloj cullan callok calik cucë cullni cullnisht cullnik cullishte bicull cule (bundle) === References === === Further reading === FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[4], 1980 “cull”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006 == Catalan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈkuʎ] Rhymes: -uʎ === Verb === cull inflection of collir: third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative