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Cull

Cull meaning

To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group). | To gather, collect. | To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.

Example sentences (20)

Backface culling main The simplest way to cull polygons is to cull all polygons which face away from the viewer.

Across its High Street brands —Bank of Scotland, Halifax and Lloyds — it has far more branches than any other rival: 1,319 compared to NatWest's 738. But a ruthless cull is predicted.

Agriculture Minister, decided upon a limited badger cull, we need to be continually assessing the best approach to reducing the spread of TB.

Federal land managers said in new court filings ahead of the Reno hearing that the deaths among 2,500 horses gathered since July 9 are an unfortunate — but expected — part of necessary efforts to cull the size of large herds.

I’d say it’s time to cull the herd, but the political metaphor would be lost to their ignorance and I’d be cancelled for promoting violence.

Jobs that are withstanding the revolution tipped to cull 300million posts across the globe have been revealed.

Mr Cull became a professional footballer through Southampton's academy, joining their under 18 squad in 2015.

New Vodafone CEO, Margherita Della Valle, said the company's recent performance was "not good enough" and the cull comes as part of a plan to simplify the business.

Next, cull your non-performers immediately.

On that occasion, Cull pleaded guilty to driving dangerously through several streets in Prestonpans on January 22 this year.

She set up the chess board all season long, using the likes of Kuzuryu, the Jack of Hearts and even the brutal King of Spades to cull players, allowing her to find only the best for the final game.

So we do continue to see that we'll continue to cull the fleet and optimise that, but overall, I think this is part of our key strategy and part of our key things that are going to make us really come out ahead over the long run.

THE ACT government has been accused of secretly butchering hundreds of kangaroos in Canberra nature reserves during its annual cull in July.

The most ambitious wolf reintroduction effort in the U.S. in almost three decades marks a sharp departure from aggressive efforts by Republican-led states to cull wolf packs.

There are so many reasons online retailers eventually clean out their shelves: a flash sale, a back-catalogue cull, an item taking too long to move, a reissue campaign that overestimated demand for an artist’s work returning to vinyl.

The species can be legally hunted, and is not subject to an annual cull quota in the way that, for instance, bears are.

This season gives us salty Kelley Wentworth, Wendy setting the chickens free, the Ron blindside, and that montage of Aubry using the same tired lines to cull up an alliance before being blindsided.

Adapted for the screen from Bea Roberts’ multi-award-winning stage play, And Then Come the Nightjars tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a Devon farmer and the vet who is assigned to cull his precious herd.

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German zoo sparks outrage with plans to cull some of its 45-strong tribe of baboons and feed them to captive.