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Meaning of "seal cull" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SEAL CULL

seal cull  [siːl kʌl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEAL CULL

noun
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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Seal cull is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SEAL CULL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of seal cull in the English dictionary

The definition of seal cull in the dictionary is an operation designed to reduce the number of seals by slaughtering some of them.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SEAL CULL


caracul
ˈkærəˌkʌl
cull
kʌl
numbskull
ˈnʌmˌskʌl
numskull
ˈnʌmˌskʌl
scull
skʌl
skull
skʌl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEAL CULL

seal
seal brown
seal of confession
seal ring
seal-like
seal-point
sealable
sealant
sealed
sealed book
sealed move
sealed orders
sealed road
sealed unit
sealed-beam
sealed-beam headlight
sealer
sealeries
sealery
sealine

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEAL CULL

bull
chock-full
double scull
dull
full
gull
half-full
hull
in full
lull
mull
null
pull
push-pull
ring-pull
seagull
Solihull
the Bull
to the full
Tull

Synonyms and antonyms of seal cull in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «seal cull» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEAL CULL

Find out the translation of seal cull to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of seal cull from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «seal cull» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

密封扑杀
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cull sello
570 millions of speakers

English

seal cull
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सील चुनना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ختم اعدام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

уплотнение выбраковки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

abate selo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সীল কুল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

joint abattage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengelak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Robbenschlag
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

シールカル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

씰 발췌
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Segel cull
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tiêu hủy con dấu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மூட்டை முத்திரை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सील पुसा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Mühür cull
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sigillo cull
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uszczelnienie cull
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ущільнення вибракування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Cull sigiliu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σφραγίδα σφαγής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

seël slag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tätning utgallring
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

segl Cull
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of seal cull

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEAL CULL»

The term «seal cull» is used very little and occupies the 181.803 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SEAL CULL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «seal cull» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «seal cull» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about seal cull

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEAL CULL»

Discover the use of seal cull in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to seal cull and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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New Scientist
continued Political motives behind seal cull Seal researchers Charles Summers attacked the protesters who halted the Scottish seal cull for damaging the image of the conservationist movement by their inexpert and unscientific campaign ...
2
Terrorists Or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the ...
After the Milton Keynes arson, the next major action occurred in June 1974, when the Band turned its attention to the bloody seal cull of the Wash along the Norfolk coast. The seal cull was an annual event and involved hunters going out in two ...
Steven Best, Anthony J. Nocella, 2004
3
New Scientist
... seal cull. Q T^VOCTORS in Britain say that women J—' who take the drug isotretinoin, to fight off acne, are better protected against the risk of giving birth to malformed children than their counterparts in the US. They argue that because only ...
4
Marine Mammals: Fisheries, Tourism and Management Issues: ...
In short, the South African scientists found that while a Cape fur seal cull might provide some minor benefits to fisheries, it was more likely to have a detrimental impact on the hake fishery (Punt and Butterworth 1 995) . This was because the ...
Nicholas Gales, Mark Hindell, Roger Kirkwood, 2003
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Icy Battleground: Canada, the International Fund for Animal ...
... Research that indicated 33 to 66 percent of Canadian fish purchasers would change their consumption habits if they were made aware of the presence of worms in fish.60 No less difficult to resolve was the issue of a grey seal cull.
Donald Barry, 2005
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New Scientist
T H W K A PLAN by the European Community to ban the import of seal products before next spring's seal cull in Canada seems set to founder tomorrow (Friday) in a morass of confusion over an c unpublished report on the £ state of the ...
7
New Scientist
The recent abortive grey seal cull in Orkney was a subject which lent itself perfectly to the kind of emotive treatment that is designed to escalate events from obscurity into international headline news. Less predictable, however, and much more ...
8
Sea of Slaughter
"Seal Cull Urgent, Ottawa Told. The Nova Scotia and federal Governments have held discussions for several months on a possible cull of grey seals, according to provincial Fisheries Minister John Leefe. "Mr. Leefe said on Friday the seals are ...
Farley Mowat, 2004
9
Fragile Land: Scotland's Environment
The last seal cull in the UK was held in 1978 and recent demands from fishermen for another cull have been made without conclusive proof that the mammals are destroying commercial fish stocks. Conservationists also point out that around ...
Auslan Cramb, 1998
10
Whales, Seals, Fish and Man
Second, given that the parasite spends very little time of its life cycle in seals, there is no reason to believe that a seal cull other than a total cull could control worm numbers in demersal fish. This was clearly illustrated by our monitoring of worm ...
A. Schytte Blix, L. Walløe, Ø. Ulltang, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEAL CULL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term seal cull is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Rats of the sea': South Australian MP calls for fur seal cull
The number of New Zealand fur seals around the Murray Lakes and the Coorong are ... A South Australian MP wants a fur seal cull along parts of the SA coast ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Paul McCartney urges Canadian officials to end seal cull
Sir Paul McCartney has marked the opening of Canada's seal hunting season by urging officials to make this the last year of the annual cull. McCartney joined ... «Toronto Sun, Apr 15»
3
Seal Cull in Namibia to Be Record Low as Pups Evade Clubs
Namibia, the biggest hunter of seals after Canada, licenses right holders to kill the fish-eating mammals during a harvesting season that starts in July, seeking to ... «Bloomberg, Nov 14»
4
Gray seal resurgence stirs call for hunt
This gray seal is blissfully unaware of all the complaints about too many seals ... Asked if he supports a seal cull, Krogh said "all options" should be on the table ... «WCVB Boston, Jul 14»
5
Morrissey compares Canadian seal cull to the Holocaust
"I can assure Sophie Doucet that I know more about the seal hunt than I wish to know," he ... As part of his boycott against the annual seal cull, Morrissey has not ... «The Guardian, Apr 14»
6
Gardenstown seal cull abandoned amid protests
A major wild salmon producer has said it is giving up the culling of seals after ... meaning only acoustic devices would be used to drive seals away from nets. «BBC News, Apr 14»
7
Brutal Seal Culling in Namibia Secretly Filmed by Conservation …
Disturbing video of an annual seal culling in Namibia reveals Cape fur seal pups being driven into a gauntlet of men who bludgeon the seals to death with what ... «Nature World News, Jul 13»
8
The Proposed Seal Cull is Unscientific and Just Plain Wrong
The concept of a seal cull to improve Maritime groundfish stocks is not scientifically defensible. It is simply not known whether seals have a positive or negative ... «Huffington Post Canada, Oct 12»
9
Calls for seal cull after Aberdeen man's dog mauled by bull seal
Last night, Audrey Forbes-Clarke, the fishery manager for the local Udny Trust, called for a licensed cull at the estuary to combat an “explosion” in seal numbers. «Scotsman, Oct 12»
10
Fisheries council calls for massive seal cull in Gulf of St. Lawrence
An advisory panel is calling on Ottawa to approve a cull that would result in the killing of 70 per cent of the grey seals that feed in the southern Gulf of St. «Globe and Mail, Sep 11»

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