till
see also: Till
Pronunciation Preposition
Till
Proper noun
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see also: Till
Pronunciation Preposition
- Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
- She stayed till the very end.
- It's twenty till two. (1:40)
- I have to work till eight o'clock tonight.
- 1854, Prof. John Wilson, The Genius and Character of Burns, p.194 (Google preview) ↗:
- Similar sentiments will recur to everyone familiar with his writings all through them till the very end.
- (obsolete) To, up to (physically).
- They led him till his tent
- (dialectal) To make it possible that.
- 1953?, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
- VLADIMIR: Together again at last! We'll have to celebrate this. But how? (He reflects.) Get up till I embrace you.
- 1953?, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
- French: jusqu'à
- German: bis
- Italian: fino a, fino a che, fintanto, fintantochè, finattantochè, finchè
- Portuguese: até
- Russian: до
- Spanish: hasta, hasta que
- Until, until the time that.
- Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Song of Solomon 2:7 ↗:
- I charge you, O ye daughters of Ierusalem, by the Roes, and by the hindes of the field, that ye stirre not vp, nor awake my loue, till she please.
- 1846, Edward Lear, The Book of Nonsense:
- She twirled round and round, / Till she sunk underground, […]
- 1912, anonymous, Punky Dunk and the Mouse, P.F. Volland & Co.:
- And the Mouse sat and laughed till he cried.
- (until) til (nonstandard), 'til (poetic), until; see also Thesaurus:until
- French: jusqu'à
- German: bis
- Italian: fino a, fino a che
- Portuguese: até
- Russian: пока́ не
- Spanish: hasta que
till (plural tills)
- A cash register.
- A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
- Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.
- The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
- My count of my till was 30 dollars short.
- (obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest.
- French: caisse enregistreuse
- German: Kasse
- Italian: registratore di cassa
- Portuguese: caixa
- Russian: ка́сса
- Spanish: caja
- Italian: comparto contanti
- Russian: де́нежный
- Italian: incasso
till (tills, present participle tilling; past and past participle tilled)
- (transitive) To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
- (transitive) To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Genesis 3:23–Lord}} God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. ↗:
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- (intransitive) To cultivate soil.
- (obsolete) To prepare; to get.
- French: travailler
- German: pflügen
- Italian: arare, dissodare
- Portuguese: arar
- Russian: паха́ть
- Spanish: arar, roturar
till
- glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
- (dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land
- French: till, tillite
- Italian: materiale alluvionale
- French: amendement
- Italian: letame, stallatico
till (plural tills)
Till
Proper noun
- A river in Northumberland, England, tributary to the Tweed.
- Traditional saying:
- Tweed says to Till:
"What gars ye rin sae still ?"
Till says to Tweed:
"Tho ye rin wi' speed
And I rin slaw
Whar ye droon ae man,
I droon twa !"
- Tweed says to Till:
- Traditional saying:
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