Counter vs. Till — What's the Difference?

A flat surface on which money is counted, business is transacted, or food is prepared or served.

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.

(Games)A piece, as of wood or ivory, used for keeping a count or a place.

Less formal way of saying until

An imitation coin; a token.

Less formal way of saying until

A piece of money.

A cash register or drawer for money in a shop, bank, or restaurant

One who counts.

Boulder clay or other sediment deposited by melting glaciers or ice sheets.

A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.

Prepare and cultivate (land) for crops

An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.

To prepare (land) for the raising of crops, as by plowing and harrowing; cultivate.

A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.

Until.

(programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.

Until.

(Internet) A hit counter.

A drawer, small chest, or compartment for money, as in a store.

A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted

A supply of money; a purse.

A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.

Glacial drift composed of an unconsolidated, heterogeneous mixture of clay, sand, pebbles, cobbles, and boulders.

In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.

Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).

In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.

To, up to (physically).

(curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.

To, toward (in attitude).

(historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.

(dialectal) To make it possible that.

(grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Until, until the time that.

Something opposite or contrary to something else.

A cash register.

(martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.

A removable box within a cash register containing the money.

(nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.

The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).

(obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest.

(music) contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.

Glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders

The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.

(dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land

(typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.

A vetch; a tare.

(obsolete) An encounter.

(transitive) To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).

Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.

(transitive) To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.

In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.

(intransitive) To cultivate soil.

To contradict, oppose.

(obsolete) To prepare; to get.

(boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.

A vetch; a tare.

To take action in response to; to respond.

A drawer.

To encounter.

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.

Contrary or opposing

A kind of coarse, obdurate land.

One who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner.

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.

A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.

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.

Money; coin; - used in contempt.

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.

A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.

To prepare; to get.

A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.

To cultivate land.

A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.

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

The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, - below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

A treasury for government funds

Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor.

A strongbox for holding cash

The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.

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

The back leather or heel part of a boot.

An encounter.

Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; - used chiefly with run or go.

In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.

At or against the front or face.

Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.

To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.

Table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted

Game equipment used in various card or board games

A calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens

A piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers

A person who counts things

A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one);

(computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)

The piece of leather that fits the heel

A piece of leather forming the back of a shoe

A return punch (especially by a boxer)

Speak in response;

Act in advance of; deal with ahead of time

Indicating opposition or resistance

In the opposite direction;