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English

{{rank|began|thy|less|255|till|next|poor|present}}

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • , IPA: /tɪl/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-till.ogg


Preposition

  1. Up to.
  2. As late as.


Translations
  • Japanese: ...まで (...made)
  • Korean: ...까지 (...kkaji)
  • Norwegian: til, inntil
  • Persian: (tā)
  • Portuguese:
  • Russian: до#Russian|до (do)
  • Spanish:
  • Swedish:
  • Welsh: {{t-|cy|tan|xs=Welsh}}

Conjunction

  1. Up to the time that (something is true).
  2. Before (something is true).


Synonyms


Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

  1. A cash register
  2. A removable box within a cash drawer containing the money
  3. : Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe
  4. The contents of a cash register or of a cash drawer, for example, at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
  5. : My count of my till was 30 dollars short.


Etymology 3

Unknown, but possibly via etymology 4 (the verb) because alluvial deposit is used as a fertilizer.

Noun

till

  1. glacial|Glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders.
  2. manure| Manure or other material used to fertilize land.


Etymology 4

Verb

  1. To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc).
  2. To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
  3. To cultivate soil.


Quotations

  • Genesis, II, 5
  • : And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.


Translations
  • Afrikaans: {{t-|af|ploeg|xs=Afrikaans}}
  • Arabic: {{t-|ar|حرث|tr=ħáraθa|sc=Arab}}
  • Chinese: 耕 (gēng)
  • Dutch:
  • Finnish:
  • French:
  • German:
  • Hungarian: szántani

References

Category:1000 English basic words

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Estonian

Noun

  1. dill (herb)
  2. a penis


Category:et:Herbs

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Swedish

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Sv-till.ogg


Preposition

  1. to
  2. * Välkommen till Sverige!
  3. ** Welcome to Sweden!
  4. * Ge den till mig.
  5. ** Give it to me.
  6. * Vi behöver två till fem nya datorer.
  7. ** We need two to five new computers.


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Till \Till\, n. [Abbrev. from lentil.]
A vetch; a tare. [Prov. Eng.]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Till \Till\, n. [Properly, a drawer, from OE. tillen to draw.
See Tiller the lever of a rudder.]
A drawer. Specifically:
(a) A tray or drawer in a chest.
(b) A money drawer in a shop or store.
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Till alarm, a device for sounding an alarm when a money
drawer is opened or tampered with.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Till \Till\, n.
1. (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.
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2. A kind of coarse, obdurate land. --Loudon.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Till \Till\, prep. [OE. til, Icel. til; akin to Dan. til, Sw.
till, OFries. til, also to AS. til good, excellent, G. ziel
end, limit, object, OHG. zil, Goth. tils, gatils, fit,
convenient, and E. till to cultivate. See Till, v. t.]
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; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till
next week.
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He . . . came till an house. --Chaucer.
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Women, up till this
Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo.
--Tennyson.
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Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar
with his writings -- all through them till the very
end. --Prof.
Wilson.
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Till now, to the present time.

Till then, to that time.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Till \Till\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tilling.] [OE. tilen, tilien, AS. tilian, teolian, to aim,
strive for, till; akin to OS. tilian to get, D. telen to
propagate, G. zielen to aim, ziel an end, object, and perhaps
also to E. tide, time, from the idea of something fixed or
definite. Cf. Teal, Till, prep..]
1. To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise
crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a
field, a farm.
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No field nolde [would not] tilye. --P. Plowman.
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the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,
to till the ground from whence he was taken. --Gen.
iii. 23.
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2. To prepare; to get. [Obs.] --W. Browne.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Till \Till\, conj.
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.
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And said unto them, Occupy till I come. --Luke xix.
13.
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Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to
God. --Jer. Taylor.
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There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived.
--Macaulay.
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Note: This use may be explained by supposing an ellipsis of
when, or the time when, the proper conjunction or
conjunctive adverb begin when.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Till \Till\, v. i.
To cultivate land. --Piers Plowman.
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WordNet till
n 1: unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand
and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together [syn: {boulder
clay}]
2: a treasury for government funds [syn: public treasury, trough]
3: a strongbox for holding cash [syn: cashbox, money box]
v : work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order
to make it ready for cultivation; "till the soil"
Moby Dictionary
Fort Knox , backset , bank , before , blackmail , boodle , booty ,
bursary , cash register , cashbox , chest , coffer , coin box ,
cultivate , culture , cut , delve , depository , dig , dress , exchequer ,
fallow , farm , fertilize , fisc , force , gold depository , graft ,
harrow , haul , hoe , hot goods , in advance of , labor , list , locker ,
loot , manure , money , money chest , mulch , penny bank , perks ,
perquisite , pickings , piggy bank , plant , plow , plunder ,
pork barrel , prior to , prize , prune , public crib , public till ,
public treasury , public trough , rake , register , repository , safe ,
safe-deposit box , sow , spade , spoil , spoils , spoils of office ,
squeeze , stealings , stolen goods , storehouse , strong room ,
strongbox , subtreasury , swag , take , tend , thin , thin out ,
till the soil , to , treasure-house , treasury , turn , until , unto ,
up to , vault , weed , weed out , work


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