Synonyms of the word cull


CULLCOLLECT - DECIDING - GARNER - GATHER - PICK - PLUCK - REJECT - REMOVE

cull

  • v. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
  • v. To gather, collect.
  • v. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled…
  • v. (nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
  • v. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
  • n. A selection.
  • n. An organised killing of selected animals.
  • n. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
  • n. (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.

collect

  • v. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
  • v. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
  • v. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.).
  • v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
  • v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
  • v. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
  • v. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
  • adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
  • adv. With payment due from the recipient.
  • n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook,…

deciding

  • v. present participle of decide.

garner

  • n. A granary; a store of grain.
  • n. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
  • v. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
  • v. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
  • v. (often figuratively) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to…
  • v. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

gather

  • v. To collect; normally separate things.
  • v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
  • v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
  • v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
  • v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
  • v. To gain; to win.
  • n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
  • n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
  • n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
  • n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

pick

  • n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
  • n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
  • n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
  • n. A choice; ability to choose.
  • n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
  • n. (basketball) A screen.
  • n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  • n. (American football) An interception.
  • n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
  • n. (baseball) A pickoff.
  • n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
  • n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
  • n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
  • n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
  • n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
  • n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
  • v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
  • v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
  • v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
  • v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
  • v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
  • v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
  • v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
  • v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
  • v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
  • v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
  • v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
  • v. To steal; to pilfer.
  • v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
  • v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

pluck

  • v. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
  • v. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
  • v. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
  • v. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly.
  • v. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
  • v. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
  • v. (Britain, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
  • n. An instance of plucking.
  • n. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
  • n. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

reject

  • v. (transitive) To refuse to accept.
  • v. (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
  • n. Something that is rejected.
  • n. (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.

remove

  • v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
  • v. (transitive) To murder.
  • v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
  • v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
  • v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
  • v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
  • v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
  • n. The act of removing something.
  • n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
  • n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
  • n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
  • n. Distance in time or space; interval.
  • n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
  • n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

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