英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈkʌlɪŋ/
• 韻: -ʌlɪŋ

動詞

culling

1. present participle and gerund of cull

名詞

culling (countable and uncountable, plural cullings)

1. The act by which things are culled; the process of selecting for acceptance or removal.
   • 2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport‎:

     It is he who has done everything the club have asked of him since his arrival, including overseeing the brutal culling of many of the club's legends - Luis Suarez was thrown away in a phone call which, by all accounts, lasted less than 90 seconds.

2. Anything separated or selected from a mass.
3. (UK, thieves' cant, obsolete) The theft of personal possessions from a carriage during a horse race.
   • 1875, Snowden's Police Officers and Constables' Guide (page 113)

     Culling is performed during races by stepping up on a carriage during the time the horses are coming in, and snatching reticules, silk bags, &c., from the seats of the carriage, the attention of the ladies being drawn to the winning horse.

派生語

• z-culling

参照

• (form of theft): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary