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Til vs. Till — What's the Difference?

Til vs. Till — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Til and Till

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Til

See sesame.

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.

Til

Until.

Till

Less formal way of saying until

Til

Until. See Usage Note at till2.
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Till

Less formal way of saying until

Til

(colloquial) until, till

Till

A cash register or drawer for money in a shop, bank, or restaurant
There were queues at the till
Checkout tills

Til

(colloquial) until, till

Till

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

Til

(archaic) ~ to: as far as; down to; up to, until

Till

Prepare and cultivate (land) for crops
No land was being tilled or crops sown

Til

Sesame (plant)

Till

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

Til

A species of tree in the Lauraceae family, native to Madeira and the Canary Islands; Ocotea foetens.

Till

Until.

Til

See Till.

Till

Until.

Till

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

Till

A supply of money; a purse.

Till

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

Till

Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
She stayed till the very end.
It's twenty till two. (1:40)
I have to work till eight o'clock tonight.

Till

To, up to (physically).
They led him till his tent

Till

To, toward (in attitude).

Till

(dialectal) To make it possible that.

Till

Until, until the time that.
Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.

Till

A cash register.

Till

A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.

Till

The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
My count of my till was 30 dollars short.

Till

(obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest.

Till

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

Till

(dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land

Till

A vetch; a tare.

Till

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

Till

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

Till

(intransitive) To cultivate soil.

Till

(obsolete) To prepare; to get.

Till

A vetch; a tare.

Till

A drawer.

Till

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.

Till

A kind of coarse, obdurate land.

Till

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.
He . . . came till an house.
Women, up till thisCramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo.
Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar with his writings - all through them till the very end.

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.
And said unto them, Occupy till I come.
Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to God.
There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived.

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.
No field nolde [would not] tilye.
The Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

Till

To prepare; to get.

Till

To cultivate land.

Till

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

Till

A treasury for government funds

Till

A strongbox for holding cash

Till

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

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