cull

verb · nounA1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

culls

V_ing/Gerund

culling

V_ed/pp

culled

1.
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
1984, cover star: JOE DALLESANDRO culled from Andy Warhol's FLESH — anonymous; sleeve notes from The Smiths' eponymous album
Đồng nghĩa: cherry-pick
2.
To gather, collect.
3.
To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
4.
(broadly)(by extension) To kill (animals, etc).
5.
To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
6.
(computer graphics) To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
back-face culling

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

culls

1.
A selection.
2.
An organized killing of selected animals.
3.
(agriculture) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
4.
(seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.
5.
A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
6.
(dialectal, slang)A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
7.
(UK, obsolete, slang)A man or boy.

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Đồng nghĩa

cherry-pick

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English cullen, cuilen, coilen, from Old French cuillir (collect, gather, select), from Latin colligō (gather together). coil.