See also: çull and Cull

English

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Pronunciation

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)

  1. 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
    • 2020 March 20, Doug Freeman, “Stuff That Works”, in The Austin Chronicle‎[1], volume 39, number 29, page 56:
      Likewise, performances culled mostly from the night's winning acts - with no special guests or even much in the way of mashups, a longtime AMA specialty - provided a much-needed shot in the arm for a reeling local populace.
  2. To gather, collect.
  3. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
  4. (Should we delete() this redundant sense?) (by extension) To kill (animals, etc).
  5. (Can we verify() this sense?) To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
  6. (computer graphics) To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
    back-face culling
    • 2023 July 17, Blender Foundation, "Blender 3.6 Manual"‎[2]:
      "Will cull any objects further from the camera than a given distance. When used in combination with camera frustum culling, this can be used to avoid culling nearby objects that are outside the camera frustum, but still visible in reflections. It is also useful to cull small objects far from the camera."
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Noun

cull (plural culls)

  1. A selection.
  2. An organized killing of selected animals.
    • 2012 December 21, Isobel Montgomery, “A year that showed the best and worst of Britain”, in The Guardian Weekly‎[3], volume 188, number 2, page 31:
      It seemed that the sun shone and all was right in our Blakean islands until the government began to set in motion its promised cull of badgers in an effort to control bovine TB. Salvation for brock came in the form of an online petition started by Queen guitarist Brian May, the rising costs of the programme and the weather.
  3. (agriculture) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
  4. (seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.
  5. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
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Etymology 2

Perhaps an abbreviation of cully.

Noun

cull (plural culls)

  1. (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 307:
      Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat.
  2. (UK, slang, obsolete) A man or boy.
    • 1997, Chris Hunt, Duval's Gold, page 58:
      But you don't want no dealings with that cull. A darker villain I never did see.
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References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

Albanian

Alternative forms

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).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

cull m (plural cullë, definite culli, definite plural cullët)

  1. (Gheg) boy, child

Declension

Declension of cull
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative cull culli cullë cullët
accusative cullin
dative culli cullit cullëve cullëve
ablative cullësh

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Çabej, E. (1987), “cull”, in Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes III: C–D, Tirana: Akademia et Shkencave e Republikës Popullore të Shqipërisë, Instituti i Gjuhësisë dhe i Letërsisë, pages 63-65

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

Verb

cull

  1. inflection of collir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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