cull 的 2 个定义
- to select and remove from a group, especially to discard or destroy as inferior: When I cull the smaller curved saplings, I'm careful to protect and nurture the straighter and larger trees.
- to discard unwanted parts or remove choice parts from: Ranchers must decide whether to buy expensive feed or cull their herds to weather the drought.
- to collect; gather; pluck: Quotations are culled from a variety of literature, diaries and letters, local histories, journals, and newspapers.
- the act of culling.
- something culled, especially something picked out and put aside as inferior.
cull 近义词
pick out for reason
gather
更多cull例句
- The social media giant’s global cull of Australian news hit not only media companies, but also a wide range of governmental organizations, including some state and local health departments and the Bureau of Meteorology.
- In March 2020 it was one of the first countries in Europe to institute a lockdown to try to contain the virus, and in November it was quick to order a cull of farmed minks when a new variant spotted in the animals was linked to 12 cases in humans.
- A cull hunt is often ruled out of the question due to human population densities, so game managers have employed many different tactics with varying degrees of success.
- Denmark will dig up millions of dead mink after a hasty cull and burial intended to stamp out a coronavirus mutation ended with the rotting carcasses triggering a new contamination risk.
- Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, the head of the biggest opposition party, the Liberals, told broadcaster TV2 he won’t back the government’s proposal for a mass cull here and now.
- Could I, along with a few other Tumblr users, help cull through the questions and select some?
- In 2012 she again raised eyebrows when she suggested that badgers shot in any cull should be eaten.
- In this case, a cull of the Taliban and ISAF tweets yields a unique view into the current state of Afghan affairs.
- Steele visited Sparks in Harlem to cull from his collection of high-end labels and vintage pieces.
- Prenatal testing leads to more abortions and prompts us to “cull the ranks of the disabled”?
- They are goin' to skid the butt log again, and they swear that if you cull it again, they will kill you.
- He would doubtless have pressed bologna now on Tod McNeil had that social cull stayed by.
- There we cull the flowers of the field and the forest glade, weaving them into garlands, building them into nosegays.
- The items we cull relate to a trade once very general in the United States, but happily now a thing of the past.
- Let no man say that these were simply oranges, for these a man may cull in many a Greek garden to-day.