Difference between reduce and cull

reduce

Definitions

verb

  1. cook until very little liquid is left
  2. make smaller
  3. reduce in size; reduce physically
  4. be cooked until very little liquid is left
  5. lessen and make more modest
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Examples

Our goal is to reduce the excess downforce to a point where we do create a little separation.

If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science.

To reduce the wing trim drag, the fuselage was fitted with lateral surfaces called chines, which actually converted the forward fuselage into a fixed canard which developed lift.

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cull

Definitions

noun

  1. the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

verb

  1. look for and gather
  2. remove something that has been rejected

Examples

Ireland does not have another manufacturing facility with a similar capacity to absorb glass cullet (crushed glass).

Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really.

MASANGO PETROS M NOTTINGHAM RD FARM 20061016 confessed by outline shoot Lucky Mlangeni o.b.o. rustic MASSETT ANDRE M 2OO80628 ARTIST CULLINAN SMALLHOLDING

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