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(culls, culling, culled) 1. If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together. All this, needless to say, had been culled second-hand from radio reports... Laura was passing around photographs she’d culled from the albums at home. VERB: be V-ed from n, V n from n 2. To cull animals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers. To save remaining herds and habitat, the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants. VERB: V n • Cull is also a noun. In the reserves of Zimbabwe and South Africa, annual culls are already routine. N-COUNT • culling The culling of seal cubs has led to an outcry from environmental groups. N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
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I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French culier, coillir, from Latin colligere to bind together — more at collect Date: 13th century 1. to select from a group ; choose ~ed the best passages from the poet's work 2. to reduce or control the size of (as a herd) by removal (as by hunting) of especially weaker animals; also to hunt or kill (animals) as a means of population control • ~er noun II. noun Date: 1809 something rejected especially as being inferior or worthless how to separate good-looking pecans from ~s — Washington Post ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v.tr. 1 select, choose, or gather from a large quantity or amount (knowledge culled from books). 2 pick or gather (flowers, fruit, etc.). 3 select (animals) according to quality, esp. poor surplus specimens for killing. --n. 1 an act of culling. 2 an animal or animals culled. Derivatives culler Etymology: ME f. OF coillier etc. ult. f. L colligere COLLECT(1) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) отбор; отбраковка отсортировывать; отбирать; отбраковывать 2) нестандарт (о пиломатериале или кирпиче) 3) мн. ч. отбракованный материал; отбракованные продукты - woods culls ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. noun; usu. pl. 1) отбракованный нагульный скот 2) amer. забракованные материалы, отбросы 2. v. 1) собирать (цветы) 2) отбирать; браковать - cull out Syn: see choose CULL out отбирать (животных) The leader asked his best rider to cull out the sick cow from the group. ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v 1 formal to find or choose information from many different places (cull sth from) (photographs culled from various sources) 2 to kill the weakest animals in a group so that the size of the group does not increase too much 3 literary to gather flowers or fruit ~2 n the act of killing the weakest animals in a group so that the size of the group does not increase too much ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 12c., originally "put through a strainer," from O.Fr. coillir "collect, gather, select," from L. colligere "gather together," originally "choose, select" (see collect). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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