cull

C2 FREQ #43558 ★☆☆☆☆

vt. 采, 摘, 拣 n. 拣出的等外品, 被剔出的动物

发音

UK /kʌl/
US /kʌl/
其它 /kʊl/

词形变化

culls 复数 culled cullest culleth culling culls 三单 culls culling 现在分词 culled 过去式 culled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A selection.

  2. 2.

    An organized killing of selected animals.

  3. 3.

    An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.

    植物学 商务
  4. 4.

    A lobster having only one claw.

  5. 5.

    A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.

  6. 1.

    A fool, gullible person; a dupe.

    方言 俚语
  7. 2.

    A man or boy.

    英国 废旧 俚语
v. C2
  1. 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

  2. 2.

    To gather, collect.

  3. 3.

    To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.

    扑杀

    淘汰

  4. 4.

    To kill (animals, etc).

    引申义
  5. 5.

    To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.

  6. 6.

    To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.

    计算机 工程 数学

    back-face culling

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词源

From Middle English cullen, cuilen, coilen, from Old French cuillir (“collect, gather, select”), from Latin colligō (“gather together”). Doublet of coil.

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