(v. t.) To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.
(n.) A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cull in 2013 required a policing effort costing millions of pounds and pulling in officers from many different forces.
(2) For the next three years, Foxtons suffered collapsing sales and staff culls.
(3) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(4) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
(5) Even when carried out rigorously, culling does very little to help.
(6) The government's decision to allow a cull of badgers, reportedly to combat bovine tuberculosis, "flies in the face of the scientific evidence" and will serve only to spread the disease, Labour claims.
(7) The results show a decreased physiological response in the animals culled with the mixture, characterised by lower total catecholamine, cortisol and glucose concentrations.
(8) Its instrumentation and organisation are described and a consecutive sample of 1000 ECGs culled from the 50,000 computerised since its inception are discussed.
(9) Even in zoos voted the best in Europe, the Captive Animals’ Protection Society has pointed out, there can be enough evidence of animals behaving abnormally, or a casual approach to culling any surplus, to avoid them or, ideally, close them down.
(10) The planned cull had suffered a series of blows recently, including the discovery of up to twice as many badgers in the culling zones than expected, driving up the cost and complexity of the cull.
(11) What the National Farmers' Union and Tories have achieved with this policy is to reinvigorate the animal rights movement and particularly hunt saboteurs, whose numbers have swelled massively since the culls began.
(12) Rosie Woodroffe, a professor and a key member of an earlier landmark 10-year study of badger culling , said: "It would be extraordinarily unusual for natural causes to change badger populations so rapidly, and indeed no such changes have been seen [elsewhere].
(13) Also on Monday, rock musician and leading opponent of the cull Brian May issued a call for Paterson to resign, claiming he had failed to meet the public's expectation of "honesty and transparency".
(14) A spreadsheet program was written to perform decision tree analysis for control of paratuberculosis (Johne's disease), when testing all adults in a herd and culling all animals with positive test results.
(15) The cull was implemented at four other sites owned by the same company and at a sixth farm less than a kilometre from the site of the confirmed outbreak.
(16) Earnest confirmed some departures were likely as “members of the president’s staff to use the opportunity of the election” to leave the White House and “sort of engage in a transition”, but he rejected suggestions of a cull of big names.
(17) "Whilst business will not mourn the passing of many of the bodies announced today, some were doing valuable work which must not be lost amidst the widespread cull."
(18) The government confirmed on Tuesday that the second year of the cull had begun, sparking outrage from animal rights activists, campaigners and opposition politicians who claim it is cruel and ineffective.
(19) Current recipients of SCC data used the data more frequently than did past recipients of the SCC data to evaluate mastitis treatment or control, choose cows to cull, identify cows to dry off early, indicate herd infection, and evaluate mastitis control.
(20) The risk is that it removes relatively few badgers; then the worst case scenario is not just the loss of the risk reduction observed in the RBCT but the possibility of actually increasing the risk to local cattle herds (such as observed in reactively culled areas of the RBCT).
Hull
Definition:
(v. t.) The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.
(v. t.) The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging.
(v. t.) To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.
(v. t.) To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.
(v. i.) To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
(2) Hull have Arsenal at home next and will entertain Manchester United on the final day of the season.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Imogen and her father, John Hull, before he lost his sight.
(4) Customers won a significant victory in the battle with the banks earlier this month when a mass hearing was averted at Hull county court.
(5) The comforts of home will determine Liverpool's fate in 2014, according to Brendan Rodgers, and they made a convincing start against Hull City.
(6) The fibre of carrot and cabbage was similarly composed of nearly equal amounts of neutral and acidic polysaccharides, whereas pea-hull fibre had four times as much neutral as acidic polysaccharides.
(7) After 14 minutes, Rose got in behind the Hull defence to lay on the opening goal for Eriksen while the second followed an incision up the other flank from Walker.
(8) Hull City clambered out of the relegation zone and consigned Paul Lambert to a half-century of Premier League defeats as Aston Villa manager in the process.
(9) The Hull City manager, Steve Bruce , has admitted his side need to pull off a couple of “crazy results” if they are to preserve their Premier League status in a frantic end-of-season run-in.
(10) But no sooner had Hull hopes risen than they were dented by Meyler.
(11) The Ivory Coast international Sagbo had won the penalty from which Hull scored through Robbie Brady – a decision labelled "incredibly soft" by the Norwich manager, Chris Hughton – but minutes later was sent off after he clashed with Russell Martin.
(12) Tom Dillon, originally from Hull, runs Dillons furniture clearance shop.
(13) The empirical specifications of anxiety were chosen so as to render the study comparable to previous investigations executed within the general framework of Spence's (1956, 1958) developments of Hull's (1943) notions concerning the relationship to drive level and learning task performance.
(14) Only one child (0.06%) was found to be affected in comparison with the high prevalence of 51.5% reported by Hull et al.
(15) A modified life events inventory was presented over a four-month period to 132 consecutive women going into spontaneous labour in Hull and Manchester.
(16) It shows a picture of the damage sustained to the hull.
(17) He was leader of Hull city council for five years and served as its executive member for education.
(18) A n unemployed bricklayer sits with his Work Programme employment coach in Hull, watching as he types out a sample covering letter.
(19) Hull were not exactly unlucky, they simply did not create enough from open play to deserve anything from the game, though Brady could hardly have come any closer to scoring.
(20) A shame such a landmark achievement was soured by Allam refusing to talk to the local council over a potential stadium expansion and trying to change the club’s name to Hull Tigers, which many fans vehemently oppose.