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Definitions for Culling

[1] to choose; select; pick.
[2] to gather the choice things or parts from.
[3] to collect; gather; pluck.
[4] act of culling.
[5] something culled, especially something picked out and put aside as inferior.
[6] to choose or gather the best or required examples
[7] to take out (an animal, esp an inferior one) from a herd
[8] to reduce the size of (a herd or flock) by killing a proportion of its members
[9] to gather (flowers, fruit, etc)
[10] to cease to employ; get rid of
[11] the act or product of culling
[12] an inferior animal taken from a herd or group

Words related to Culling

cullglean, winnow, pluck, sift, extract, select, amass, collect, discriminate, prefer, choose, mark, take, elect, thin, accumulate, garner

Words nearby Culling

cullculicifuge, culicoides, culinarian, culinary, culion, cull, cullen, cullen's sign, cullender, culler, cullet

Origin of Culling

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

Words that may be confused with Culling

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, cullcall, caul, cull

Other words from Culling

cull·er , noun
out·cull , verb (used with object)
o·ver·cull , verb (used with object)
un·culled , adjective

Word origin for Culling

C15: from Old French coillir to pick, from Latin colligere; see collect 1

Synonyms for Culling

extract, glean, pluck, select, sift, winnow, choose, discriminate, elect, mark, prefer, take, thin, opt for, optate, single out, thin out