Prune in a sentence as a noun

...and I have no desire to prune them.

Go through the top bit and ruthlessly prune off everything that doesn't need to be there.

Switch back to pagination and I could accomplish all I needed and have a nice pruned list.

My life is so full that it was getting neglected and so I decided to prune rather than let it wither.

The first thing you need to decide is who are your tier I target customers, and prune the list appropriately.

In the beginning I would go through the entire code base every week and prune it. I still read through the entire thing every now and then and make sure there's no excess fat.

We nevertheless get so much utility from the old cache that it can be easy to forget to prune and update it.

I have to thank Valleywag for doing me the favor of helping me prune people who lack reading comprehension from twitter.

"Don't worry," says one of our Uber-savvy commuters, "they regularly prune the list of people who're getting poor reviews.

Prune in a sentence as a verb

" And this will be something I keep in mind, unless Facebook adds features to easily prune content from Timeline.

My wish is that the moderators would more ruthlessly prune the politics/economics stories.

But in terms of generating revenue now, you need to prune the **** out of the list so that you are spending your time chasing the highest value prospects.

As swannodette said, at Facebook, we use persistent data structures, in order to prune the update search space for comment updates.

Also, beware of over-fitting - ANNs tend to be parameter-heavy, although there are approaches to prune the connections.

Mutation happens randomly, then natural selection will sometimes prune out bad mutations.

Possibly this is an age thing, or a consequence of the fact that I prune superficial relationships from my Facebook, but I have a hard time relating to the experience this writer describes.

One misstep allowing the patenting of "controlling stuff with touch" instead of allowing only the much more restrictive specific methods of detecting that touch could prune an entire branch off our technological development tree for decades to come.

Prune definitions

noun

dried plum

verb

cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"

See also: snip clip crop trim dress

verb

weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"

See also: rationalize rationalise