Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To prepare (land) for the raising of crops, as by plowing and harrowing; cultivate.
- noun Glacial drift composed of an unconsolidated, heterogeneous mixture of clay, sand, pebbles, cobbles, and boulders.
- noun A drawer, small chest, or compartment for money, as in a store.
- noun A supply of money; a purse.
- preposition Until.
- conjunction Until.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To; unto: expressing motion to a place or person.
- Up to; down to; as far as: expressing distance, extent, or degree.
- To; unto: expressing action directed to or having regard to a person.
- To; unto: expressing change or result.
- To the time of; until: as, I waited till five o'clock.
- To the time that; to the time when; until.
- To exert one's self for; labor for; procure by exertion; earn; gain; obtain; get.
- To attain; reach; extend.
- To labor on; work; cultivate: as, to
till the soil. - To set; prepare.
- To prop up.
- noun In geology, a stiff clay containing boulders of all sizes up to several tons in weight, and these often smoothed and striated by glacial action.
- noun A drawer; a tray, as of a trunk or box. Also called
tiller . - noun Specifically A money-drawer; a drawer under or in a shop-counter, in which money is kept.
- noun In printing: In earlier forms of hand printing-presses, a crosspiece extending between the main uprights of the frame, and serving to guide and steady the hose or sleeve, which contained the spindle and screws. Also called
shelf . - noun One of the spaces or cells between the ribbed projections of the platen of a hand-press.
- To draw; pull; hence, to entice; allure.
- To draw; stretch; reach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate.
- transitive verb obsolete To prepare; to get.
- conjunction As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until.
- noun A tray or drawer in a chest.
- noun A money drawer in a shop or store.
- noun a device for sounding an alarm when a money drawer is opened or tampered with.
- intransitive verb To cultivate land.
- noun (Geol.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.
- noun A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
- preposition To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland
- preposition to the present time.
- preposition to that time.
- noun Prov. Eng. A vetch; a tare.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cash register - noun A
removable box within a cash register containing the money - noun The
contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of acashier 's shift - noun
glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders - noun dialect
manure or other material used tofertilize land - preposition now dialectal
to - preposition
until ,up to , aslate as (a given time) - conjunction
until , until the time that - verb transitive to
develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; tocultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc) - verb transitive to
work orcultivate orplough (soil ); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops - verb intransitive to cultivate soil
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
- noun unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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T.ey stayed with me till half past eleven, when we set out for Mr T. Hope's rout, but after waiting in the street _till near one_, we found to get in was impossible.
The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling
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Maggie, he said, in a deep tone of slow decision, let us never go home again, till no one can part us, till we are married.
XIII. Borne Along by the Tide. Book VIThe Great Temptation 1917
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I sot up till the clock was gone twelve last night, a-lookin at em, I did, till they stared at me out o the picturs as if theyd know when I spoke to em.
III. A Voice from the Past. Book IVThe Valley of Humiliation 1917
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Gradual_, a _Short Sequens_, the _Gospel_, the _Nicene Creed_, and a number of other matters, not excepting even the _elevation_ of the host, but not for adoration, which latter he retained till [sic] _till twelve years after the Diet at Augsburg!
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_So_, till _the_ JUDGMENT that YOURSELF _arise_ [_till_ then],
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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I therefore consented to stay, not till the recovery of their nurse, but ’till I should receive a letter from my friends at Paris.
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Add nothing, and diminish nothing, let this lamp shine “till the day dawn, ’till the morning of the resurrection,” and walk ye in the light of it, and do not kindle any other sparkles, else ye shall lie down in the grave in sorrow, and rise in sorrow.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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Neither of us said another word till the dorm came into sight.
Haven Kristi Cook 2011
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Neither of us said another word till the dorm came into sight.
Haven Kristi Cook 2011
lweber5@scf.edu commented on the word till
Online Dictionary. The size and shape of the sediments that constitute till vary widely.
October 7, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word till
Why is till short for until? You save yourself only one letter, and you have to remember to add in that extra l.
February 28, 2011
rolig commented on the word till
Actually, until is long for till. "Till" came first.
February 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word till
That makes me feel a little better--I was assuming until was long for unto.
February 28, 2011
yarb commented on the word till
That makes sense, rolig. After all, you only have to write one extra letter, and you don't have to worry about that extra l.
February 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word till
Hmph.
*wanders over to 'cause*
February 28, 2011
dontcry commented on the word till
So, is until what I do to my garden after the harvest?
March 1, 2011
jennarenn commented on the word till
How do you know that till came first? Link, please. :)
March 3, 2011
claironeill commented on the word till
An alternative way of saying 'to' (Belfast)
'I'm going to till the shop."
July 27, 2011
myblankinfinity commented on the word till
An interesting article on the subject of a minute difference between till and until.
http://contentcaramel.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/till-and-until-are-different/
February 20, 2013
alexz commented on the word till
I found out that till is short for 'to while'.
Here's an analytical study of 'to' 'till' 'until'. http://goo.gl/i0r7x
It's good reading.
"An analytical dictionary of the English language - Page clxxix
books.google.ca/books?id=Wwi5sUW6R18C
David Booth - 1835 - Read - More editions
that Till is a word compounded of To and While, i. e. Time. And you will observe that the coalescence of ... So that when we say 'from morn till night ' it is no more than if we said 'from morn to time night.' When we say 'from morn to night,' the ..."
February 21, 2013
karpkatamala commented on the word till
That may be, in part, because he is an old-fashioned generalist, more interested in understanding the connective tissue between seemingly disparate ideas than in tilling a small patch of disciplinary soil.
Till: transitive v. To prepare (land) for the raising of crops, as by plowing and harrowing; cultivate.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/whats-so-dangerous-about/242256
January 18, 2018