till
IPA: tˈɪɫ
noun
- A cash register.
- A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
- The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
- A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.
- (obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest.
- glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
- (dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land
- A vetch; a tare.
- A placename
- (uncountable) A river in Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, tributary to the Tweed.
- (uncountable) A river in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
- (uncountable) A river in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
- (countable) A surname.
verb
- (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.
- (intransitive) To cultivate soil.
- (obsolete) To prepare; to get.
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Examples of "till" in Sentences
- _So_, till _the_ JUDGMENT that YOURSELF _arise_ [_till_ then],
- Neither of us said another word till the dorm came into sight.
- 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.
- I therefore consented to stay, not till the recovery of their nurse, but ’till I should receive a letter from my friends at Paris.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
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