till
Part of speech: prep
conj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English til, from Northern Old English til, from or akin to Old Norse til (“to, till”); both from Proto-Germanic *til (“to, toward”), from Proto-Germanic *tilą (“planned point in time”). Not a contraction of until; rather, until comes from till with the prefix un- (“against; toward; up to”) also found in unto. Cognate with Old Frisian til (“to, till”), Danish til (“to”), Swedish till (“to, till”), Icelandic til (“to, till”). Also related to Old English til (“good”), German Ziel (“goal”), Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌻 (til, “something fitting or suitable”).
Inflected forms:
form: 'til
pos: prep
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: til
pos: prep
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: 'til
pos: conj
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: til
pos: conj
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: tills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tilled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
pos: prep
examples: She stayed till the very end.
I have to work till eight o'clock tonight.
Similar sentiments will recur to everyone familiar with his writings all through them till the very end.
The line was authorised on June 23, 1864, but not opened till July 11, 1881.
While the PA has not always seen eye-to-eye with US foreign policy, its survival remained, till recently, a top American priority.
If you thought Wytrzyszczka was a mouthful, wait till you try saying Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
gloss: Before (a certain time or event).
pos: prep
examples: It's twenty till two. (1:40)
Is that the town-clock striking? / I think that it is to-night / My fever will reach its crisis, / There are long hours yet till light.
gloss: To, up to (physically).
pos: prep
tags: dialectal
obsolete
examples: They led him till his tent
She, poor bird, as all forlorn / Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn / And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, / To to hear it was great pity.
And till the kirk she wadna gae, / nor till't she wadna ride, / Till four-and-twenty men she gat her before, / And twenty on ilka side
For a king to gang an outlaw till / Is beneath his state and his dignitie.
gloss: To, toward (in attitude).
pos: prep
tags: dialectal
obsolete
examples: "Here's at you old hoss!" hiccupped I, with a friendly pitch in the way of a nod at Rice.
"Go it, young grampus, that's me! Here's till ye, my infant progidy!" replied he, as he clinked his glass against mine.
And then she changed her voice and would be as saft as honey: 'My puir wee Ailie, was I thrawn till ye? Never mind, my bonnie. You and me are a' that's left, and we maunna be ill to ither.'
gloss: So that (something may happen).
pos: prep
tags: dialectal
examples: 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.
gloss: Until, until the time that.
pos: conj
examples: Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.
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.
She twirled round and round, / Till she sunk underground, […]
And the Mouse sat and laughed till he cried.
gloss: A cash register.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue.
gloss: A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
pos: noun
examples: Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.
When you've finished serving that customer could you jump off please? We need to take the till.
That said, and I'll put this down to its newness, the bin lid was a bit snappy, like Arkwright's till (google that if you're a youngster).
gloss: The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
pos: noun
examples: My count of my till was 30 dollars short.
gloss: A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.
pos: noun
gloss: A tray or drawer in a chest.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
gloss: To cultivate soil.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To prepare; to get.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Nor knowes a trappe nor snare to till
Derived words: cast not a clout till May be out
ne'er cast a clout till May be out
don't knock it till you've tried it
don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear
fake it till one makes it
it ain't over till it's over
it ain't over till the fat lady sings
it isn't over till the fat lady sings
six ways till Sunday
the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it
till all hours
till date
till death do us part
till death us do part
till doomsday
till the cow come home
till the cows come home
till time
up till
wait till the clouds roll by
you don't miss the water till the well runs dry
you never know what you've got till it's gone
you never miss the water till the well runs dry
have one's fingers in the till
have one's hand in the till
till money
till point
till-tapper
intertill
no-till
overtill
retill
tillable
tiller
tillman
tilly
tilth
zero-till
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