weed-out
to remove unwanted things
TRANSLATION
weed-out = aussortieren, ausmerzen, aussondern, jäten --- GOOGLE INDEX weed-out: approximately 1,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Pakistan has promised to WEED-OUT elements sympathetic to the Taliban in one of its intelligence agencies.
(The Guardian)
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Statistics show that employers routinely WEED-OUT job candidates because they post offensive or inflammatory things on Facebook.
(Business 2 Community)
(The Guardian)
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Statistics show that employers routinely WEED-OUT job candidates because they post offensive or inflammatory things on Facebook.
(Business 2 Community)
Did you
know?
weed-out
phrasal verb
- to get rid of unwanted things or people from a group
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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According to the Oxford Dictionary, the noun "weed" is defined among other things as a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants. AA Milner, the poet and author famous for the Winnie The Pooh stories, had a different point of view when he wrote that, "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
Most of us don't adhere to Milner's theory however. We consider weeds ugly and annoying, not to mention they create extra work when we pull them out of our gardens and flower beds. The truth is, when it comes to weeds, we're not as kind and gentle as Winnie The Pooh and his friends. So we "weed-out" the weeds.
Weed is from the Old English "weod" meaning "grass, herb, wild plant," which stems from a Proto-Germanic source (weud) of unknown origin. It should be noted that we normally use the plural "weeds" because you rarely find just one weed growing somewhere.
The singular is meanwhile used more often than not as a colloquial term for marijuana. Keep that in mind the next time you tell someone that you have "weed" in your garden.
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SYNONYMS
cull, filter out, remove, sift, single-out, sort-out, thin-out, winnow
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"It takes a lot of time to weed-out online job candidates."
phrasal verb
- to get rid of unwanted things or people from a group
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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According to the Oxford Dictionary, the noun "weed" is defined among other things as a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants. AA Milner, the poet and author famous for the Winnie The Pooh stories, had a different point of view when he wrote that, "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
Most of us don't adhere to Milner's theory however. We consider weeds ugly and annoying, not to mention they create extra work when we pull them out of our gardens and flower beds. The truth is, when it comes to weeds, we're not as kind and gentle as Winnie The Pooh and his friends. So we "weed-out" the weeds.
Weed is from the Old English "weod" meaning "grass, herb, wild plant," which stems from a Proto-Germanic source (weud) of unknown origin. It should be noted that we normally use the plural "weeds" because you rarely find just one weed growing somewhere.
The singular is meanwhile used more often than not as a colloquial term for marijuana. Keep that in mind the next time you tell someone that you have "weed" in your garden.
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SYNONYMS
cull, filter out, remove, sift, single-out, sort-out, thin-out, winnow
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"It takes a lot of time to weed-out online job candidates."
