Definitions for TILL
tɪltill

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 3 votes

1. till, boulder claynoun

   unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together

2. public treasury, trough, tillnoun

   a treasury for government funds

3. cashbox, money box, tillverb

   a strongbox for holding cash

4. tillverb

   work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation

   "till the soil"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tillconjunction.

   1. To the time.

   Wood and rocks had ears
   To rapture, till the savage clamour drown’d
   Both harp and voice. John Milton.

   The unity of place we neither find in Aristotle , Quintus Horatius Flaccus, or any who have written of it, till in our age the French poets first made it a precept of the stage. Dryden.

   2. To the degree that.

   Meditate so long till you make some act of prayer to God, or glorification of him. Taylor.

   Goddess, spread thy reign till Isis elders reel. Alexander Pope.

2. Tillnoun

   A money box.

   They break up counters, doors and tills,
   And leave the empty chests in view. Jonathan Swift.

3. Tillprep.

   To the time of.

   Etymology: til , Saxon.

   Unhappy slave, and pupil to a bell,
   Unhappy till the last, the kind releasing knell. Abraham Cowley.

4. To Tillverb

   To cultivate; to husband: commonly used of the husbandry of the plow.

   Etymology: tylian , Saxon; tenlen, Dutch.

   This paradise I give thee, count it thine,
   To till, and keep, and of the fruit to eat. John Milton.

   Send him from the garden forth, to till
   The ground whence he was taken. John Milton, Par. Lost.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Till

   Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment. Till is derived from the erosion and entrainment of material by the moving ice of a glacier. It is deposited some distance down-ice to form terminal, lateral, medial and ground moraines. Till is classified into primary deposits, laid down directly by glaciers, and secondary deposits, reworked by fluvial transport and other processes.

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1. till

   "Till" is a preposition that can be used in three different contexts. 1) It can refer to the time up to a certain point or event, synonymous to "until". E.g., "She waits till the sun sets." 2) In the context of agriculture, till or tillage refers to the preparation of land for growing crops by plowing or turning the soil. 3) In geology, till is unstratified glacial sediment, which consists of all types of rocks and boulders mixed with clay. 4) Additionally, "till" can also be used as a noun referring to a cash register or drawer for money in a shop or restaurant.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. Tillnoun

   a vetch; a tare

2. Tillnoun

   a drawer

3. Tillnoun

   a tray or drawer in a chest

4. Tillnoun

   a money drawer in a shop or store

5. Tillnoun

   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

6. Tillnoun

   a kind of coarse, obdurate land

7. Tillverb

   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

8. Till

   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

9. Till

   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

10. Till

    to prepare; to get

11. Tillverb

    to cultivate land

WikidataRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. Till

   Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment. Glacial drift is a general term for the coarsely graded and extremely heterogeneous sediments of glacial origin. Glacial till is that part of glacial drift which was deposited directly by the glacier. Its content may vary from clays to mixtures of clay, sand, gravel and boulders. This material is mostly derived from the subglacial erosion and entrainment by the moving ice of the glaciers of previously available unconsolidated sediments. Bedrock can also be eroded through the action of glacial plucking and abrasion and the resulting clasts of various sizes will be incorporated to the glacier's bed. Eventually, the sedimentary assemblage forming this bed will be abandoned some distance down-ice from its various sources. This is the process of glacial till deposition. When this deposition occurs at the base of the moving ice of a glacier, the sediment is called lodgement till. Rarely, eroded unconsolidated sediments can be preserved in the till along with their original sedimentary structures. More commonly, these sediments lose their original structure through the mixture processes associated to the subglacial transport and they solely contribute to form the more or less uniform matrix of the till.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Till

   til, n. a money-box or drawer in a desk, counter, or trunk. [M. E. tillen, to draw out—A.S. tyllan, in for-tyllan, to draw aside.]

2. Till

   til, prep. to the time of.—adv. to the time when: to the degree that. [Old Northumbrian til—Scand., Ice. til.]

3. Till

   til, v.t. to cultivate.—adj. Till′able, arable.—ns. Till′age, act or practice of tilling: husbandry: a place tilled; Till′er; Till′ing. [A.S. tilian, to till—til, good, a limit; Ger. zielen, to arrange.]

4. Till

   til, n. the usual name in Scotland for Boulder-clay, a widely-distributed stony clay, usually tough and hard, unquestionably the result of glaciation, probably being merely the bottom-moraine or ground-moraine of extinct glaciers.

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1. TILL

   What does TILL stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the TILL acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TILL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Till is ranked #7721 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Till surname appeared 4,299 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Till.
   
   90.7% or 3,902 total occurrences were White.
   3.4% or 150 total occurrences were Black.
   2.4% or 104 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.7% or 74 total occurrences were Asian.
   1.3% or 56 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.3% or 13 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Agriculture
   • Treasury
   • Work

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'TILL' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4760

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'TILL' in Written Corpus Frequency: #678

Anagrams for TILL »

1. lilt

How to pronounce TILL?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say TILL in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of TILL in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of TILL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of TILL in a Sentence

1. Jeanette Piniones Navales:

   My kids are all doing good. Brooke, Wilder and Scout all huddled under our kitchen table till the shaking stopped, the dogs were more concerned as to what the heck we were doing under the table.

2. Ella Wheeler Wilcox:

   It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - no more - to a man, And love to a woman is life or death.

3. Julia Efremova:

   She said :' No, I'm going to play this tournament till the end.

4. Lord Chesterfield:

   Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

5. Michael Hanson:

   To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=TILL
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=TILL
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TILL
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/TILL
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=TILL
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=TILL
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html