transcription, транскрипция: [ kʌl ]
( 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
• cull‧ing
The culling of seal cubs has led to an outcry from environmental groups.
N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp