poimia — meaning in English

English meaning

• corral noun A fenced enclosure for keeping livestock, especially horses or cattle.
• cull verb To select or pick something out from a larger group.
• extract verb To pull or draw something out, often with effort or force.
• glean verb To gather information or knowledge gradually, often bit by bit and with some effort.
• pick verb To choose one thing from a number of options.
• single adj Being just one, on its own, without anything else alongside it.
• take verb To reach out and get hold of something, or to remove or carry it away.

Senses

poimia is used for these senses in English:

• corral To capture or round up.
• cream off To separate (the best part of something from the regular part).
• cull To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
• extract (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
• glean To gather (something, now chiefly something intangible such as experience or information) in small amounts over a period of time, often with some difficulty; to scrape together.
• handpick (transitive) To select carefully and with individual attention.
• pick To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
• pick up (transitive) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.

corral — full definition

1. noun A fenced enclosure for keeping livestock, especially horses or cattle.
2. verb To round up and confine animals or people.

cull — full definition

1. verb To select or pick something out from a larger group.
2. verb To reduce the number of animals in a population by killing some of them in a controlled way.
3. noun The organized killing of selected animals to control numbers.

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