What does till mean?
Definitions for till
tɪltill
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Princeton's WordNet
till, boulder claynoun
unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
public treasury, trough, tillnoun
a treasury for government funds
cashbox, money box, tillverb
a strongbox for holding cash
tillverb
work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
"till the soil"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Tillconjunction.
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.
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.
Tillnoun
A money box.
They break up counters, doors and tills,
And leave the empty chests in view. Jonathan Swift.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.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.
Wikipedia
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.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
Tillnoun
a vetch; a tare
Tillnoun
a drawer
Tillnoun
a tray or drawer in a chest
Tillnoun
a money drawer in a shop or store
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
Tillnoun
a kind of coarse, obdurate land
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
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
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
Till
to prepare; to get
Tillverb
to cultivate land
Wikidata
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 Dictionary
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.]
Till
til, prep. to the time of.—adv. to the time when: to the degree that. [Old Northumbrian til—Scand., Ice. til.]
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.]
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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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'till' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4760
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'till' in Written Corpus Frequency: #678
Anagrams for till »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of till in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of till in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of till in a Sentence
It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
They said to me, ‘Let’s wait till the safest place to do it,’.
I am going to stay focused on riding till I decide what to do, I have all the time in the world.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.
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- tot, ploegAfrikaans
- إلى, حتى, حرث, حَتّى, ريثماArabic
- kasa, doCzech
- tanWelsh
- indtilDanish
- Kasse, bis, pflügenGerman
- έως, ωσότου, ώσπου, μέχρι, ίσαμεGreek
- ĝisEsperanto
- arar, caja, hasta, hasta queSpanish
- kuniEstonian
- arteBasque
- تاPersian
- saakka, ennen kuin, lanta, asti, kyntää, kunnes, moreeniFinnish
- caisse enregistreuse, labourer, jusqu'àFrench
- go dtí, go dtí goIrish
- cobhan, guScottish Gaelic
- עד, עד ש־Hebrew
- तकHindi
- amíg, szánt, -ig, ameddigHungarian
- մինչեւArmenian
- kasoIdo
- arareItalian
- 耕す, までJapanese
- სალაროGeorgian
- 갈다, 까지Korean
- colō, arōLatin
- artiLithuanian
- artLatvian
- tāmataMāori
- hinggaMalay
- totdat, kassa, tot, kassalade, bewerken, bebouwen, ploegenDutch
- inntil, tilNorwegian
- uprawiaćPolish
- arar, até, caixaPortuguese
- до тех пор, пахать, до, ящик, до тех пор пока, касса, денежныйRussian
- kàsa, blàgājna, ка̀са, благајнаSerbo-Croatian
- till, plöja, tillsSwedish
- వరకు, దాకాTelugu
- 直到Chinese
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