cull vs name

cull

noun
  • A fool, gullible person; a dupe. 

  • A lobster having only one claw. 

  • A selection. 

  • An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded. 

  • A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen. 

  • An organised killing of selected animals. 

verb
  • To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner. 

  • To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group). 

  • To kill (animals etc). 

  • To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of. 

  • To gather, collect. 

name

noun
  • A person (or legal person). 

  • Those of a certain name; a race; a family. 

  • Authority. 

  • An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability. 

  • An abusive or insulting epithet. 

  • Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking. 

  • Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing. 

  • A unique identifier, generally a string of characters. 

  • Reputation. 

verb
  • To designate for a role. 

  • To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct. 

  • To identify as relevant or important 

  • To mention, specify. 

  • To publicly implicate by name. 

  • To give a name to. 

  • To disclose the name of. 

How often have the words cull and name occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )