To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
Used in a Sentence
culled
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for culled.
Editorial note
It could easily be culled to a size where it's no compromise on language+region of birth alone.
Examples13
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of culled gathered in one view.
To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for culled.
verb
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
verb
To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
verb
To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
verb
To gather, collect.
Example sentences
It could easily be culled to a size where it's no compromise on language+region of birth alone.
That would be too pervasive with the result approach so it has been culled from all interfaces.
Anything that doesn't get required with goog.require or isn't called by a public function gets culled.
What's also missing is that most resumes are culled mechanically by grepping for keywords.
If the radiation culled the weakest, then it would also affect the stronger individuals.
A more carefully culled list would be smaller, but there's the tradeoff--password legibility vs.
At some point, when the unikernel hasn't done anything for a while, it is culled (which is something of an implementation detail).
I find that people who favour eugenics are never those who would have been culled in the first place.
There is no reason to think that if half of the male population were culled, any fewer does would be pregnant the following year.
Eventually, the largest companies for whom software is a significant source of revenue keep doing what they have been doing for decades and use words culled from Celeriflex consultant documentation to describe it.
He gets a list of topics culled from Google Zietgeist and other sources that his editor wants him to write short posts about for $50/pop.
I don't know if we're in a bubble, but if it were to burst, there's gonna be some surprised folks getting culled.
Quote examples
"The worst startup ideas are the ones that seem like bad ideas and really are." Based on the original thought "The best startup ideas are the ones that seem like bad ideas but are good ideas." That one for sure is culled from a list of outsized successes (because they didn't make sense or had a large amount of barriers to success) but doesn't provide balance in the sense that bad ideas are more typically bad ideas.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use culled in a sentence?
It could easily be culled to a size where it's no compromise on language+region of birth alone.
What does culled mean?
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
What part of speech is culled?
culled is commonly used as verb.