Till vs. Tell — What's the Difference?

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.

Communicate information to someone in spoken or written words

Less formal way of saying until

Decide or determine correctly or with certainty

Less formal way of saying until

(of an experience or period of time) have a noticeable, typically harmful, effect on someone

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

Count (the members of a group)

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

(especially in poker) an unconscious action that is thought to betray an attempted deception.

Prepare and cultivate (land) for crops

(in the Middle East) an artificial mound formed by the accumulated remains of ancient settlements.

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

To communicate by speech or writing; express with words

Until.

To give a detailed account of; narrate

Until.

To notify (someone) of something; inform

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

To make known; disclose or reveal

A supply of money; a purse.

To inform (someone) positively; assure

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

To give instructions to; direct

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

To discover by observation; discern

To, up to (physically).

To name or number one by one; count

To, toward (in attitude).

To relate a story or give an account of an event

(dialectal) To make it possible that.

To reveal something that is not supposed to be revealed, especially something that someone has done wrong

Until, until the time that.

To have an effect or impact

A cash register.

An unintentional or unconsciously exhibited behavior that reveals or betrays one's state of mind, as when playing poker.

A removable box within a cash register containing the money.

A mound, especially in the Middle East, made up of the remains of a succession of previous settlements.

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

To count, reckon, or enumerate.

(obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest.

To narrate.

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

To convey by speech; to say.

(dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land

(transitive) To instruct or inform.

A vetch; a tare.

(transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.

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

To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

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

(transitive) To reveal.

(intransitive) To cultivate soil.

(intransitive) To be revealed.

(obsolete) To prepare; to get.

(intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.

A vetch; a tare.

To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.

A drawer.

To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.

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.

To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show

A kind of coarse, obdurate land.

A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.

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.

(archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.

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.

(internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.

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.

(archaeology) A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

To prepare; to get.

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

To cultivate land.

To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.

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

To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.

A treasury for government funds

To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform.

A strongbox for holding cash

To order; to request; to command.

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

To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins.

To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate.

To give an account; to make report.

To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells.

That which is told; tale; account.

A hill or mound.

A Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)

Express in words;

Let something be known;

Narrate or give a detailed account of;

Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority;

Discern or comprehend;

Inform positively and with certainty and confidence;

Give evidence;

Mark as different;