The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cull \Cull\ (k?l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Culled (k?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Culling.] [OE.cullen, OF. cuillir, coillir, F.cueillir, to gather, pluck, pick, fr. L. colligere. See Coil, v. t., and cf. Collect.] To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.
From his herd he culls,
For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls.
--Dryden.
Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled.
--Tennyson.
Culling \Cull"ing\ (k?l"?ng), n.
The act of one who culls.
pl. Anything separated or selected from a mass.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of culling; the process of selecting for acceptance or removal. 2 Anything separated or selected from a mass. vb. (present participle of cull English)
Wikipedia
In biology, culling is the process of segregating organisms from a group according to desired or undesired characteristics. In animal breeding, culling is the process of removing or segregating animals from a breeding stock based on specific criteria. This is done either to reinforce or exaggerate desirable characteristics, or to remove undesirable characteristics from the group. For livestock and wildlife, culling often refers to the act of killing removed animals. In fruits and vegetables, culling is the sorting or segregation of fresh harvested produce into marketable lots, with the non-marketable lots being discarded or diverted into food processing or non-food processing activities. This usually happens at collection centres located at, or close to farms. Culling is sometimes used as a term to describe indiscriminate killing within one particular species which can be due to a range of reasons, for example, badger culling in the United Kingdom.
Culling or The Culling may refer to:
- Culling, the process of removing animals from a group based on specific criteria
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Back-face culling, a way to determine whether a polygon of a graphical object is visible in computer graphics
- The rendering techniques in computer graphics
Usage examples of "culling".
I think Caulder knowing about the culling is a fair sign that others will know, too.
Was the culling, as Trist had suggested, a cruel way to test our loyalty to one another as well as our learning?
Despite the culling still hanging over us, they seemed to have set aside their uncertainties.
How long until page 27, the culling song, gets read to fifty kids before nap time?
How long until someone dissects the culling song and creates another variation, and another, and another?
The kind of security they now have at airports, imagine that kind of crackdown at all libraries, schools, theaters, bookstores, after the culling song leaks out.
And fast as a flinch, me flinching the other way down the hall, the culling song spools through my head while I grab my coat and head out the door.
In a world where the culling song was common knowledge, there would be sound blackouts.
Sudden as breaking a sweat, me squeezed against the back of the elevator, my mind spits out the culling song so hard my lips move with each word.
And fast as a hiccup, me only half listening to the radio, me half reading, the culling song goes through my head.
Hitting me as fast as a chill, chilling me all down my back, the culling song spins through my head, and the body count grows.
Driving through North Dakota and Minnesota, I ask, how did she find the culling spell?
Fast as a scream, the culling song spins through my head, and the phone line goes dead.
Me, I fold the culling spell from Helen and tuck it in my back pocket.
Using the culling spell as a sort of code key, a Rosetta stone, she might be able to translate them all.