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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