different between cull vs culm

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /k?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

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

Verb

cull (third-person singular simple present culls, present participle culling, simple past and past participle 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
2. To gather, collect.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Eleanor

     whitest honey in fairy gardens cull'd
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. (nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
5. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.

Translations

Noun

cull (plural culls)

1. A selection.
2. An organised killing of selected animals.
3. (farming, 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.

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps an abbreviation of cully.

Noun

cull (plural culls)

1. (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 307:

     Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:dupe

Albanian

Alternative forms

• cullë

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g(')elt- (“womb”). Compare Sanskrit ???? (jarta), ????? (jártu, “vulva”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Old English child.

Noun

cull m

1. (Gheg) boy, child

Derived terms

• cullak

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ku?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Verb

cull

1. third-person singular present indicative form of collir
2. second-person singular imperative form of collir

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?lm/

Etymology 1

Perhaps related to coal. Perhaps from Welsh cwlm (“knot or tie”), applied to this species of coal, which is much found in balls or knots in some parts of Wales: compare Old English culme.

Noun

culm (countable and uncountable, plural culms)

1. waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel; slack.
2. anthracite, especially when found in small masses

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin culmus. Doublet of haulm.

Noun

culm (plural culms)

1. (botany) the stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge

Translations

Anagrams

• Clum, MCLU, clum