different between breed vs till

English

Alternative forms

• breede (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English breden, from Old English br?dan, from Proto-Germanic *br?dijan? (“to brood”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reh?- (“warm”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid, Saterland Frisian briede, West Frisian briede, Dutch broeden, German Low German bröden, German brüten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?i?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Verb

breed (third-person singular simple present breeds, present participle breeding, simple past and past participle bred)

1. To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
2. (transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.

   a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men
3. Of animals, to mate.
4. To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
5. To arrange the mating of specific animals.

6. To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.

7. To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
   • 1859, Edward Everett, An Oration on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Statue of Mr. Webster

     born and bred on the verge of the wilderness

8. To yield or result in.
   • 1634, John Milton, Comus

     Lest the place / And my quaint habits breed astonishment.

9. (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
10. (sometimes as breed up) To educate; to instruct; to bring up
    • 1724-1734', Bishop Burnet, History of My Own Time

      No care was taken to breed him a Protestant.

    • His farm may not […] remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.

11. To produce or obtain by any natural process.

    • Children would breed their teeth with much less danger.

12. (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied.
    • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III Scene 1

      Fair encounter

      Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace

      On that which breed between 'em!

13. (transitive) to ejaculate inside someone's ass
    • 2018, Cassandra Dee, Paying My Boyfriend's Debt: A Billionaire Bad Boy Romance, Cassandra Dee Romance via PublishDrive

      “God, I love your ass,” he says, his voice almost a growl. “I'm gonna breed this ass tonight.”

    • 2015, David Holly, The Heart's Eternal Desire, Bold Strokes Books Inc (?ISBN)

      “ Yes,” I said. “You want to fuck me, and I submit to you. My body is yours. Stuff me. Fill me. Breed my ass. Seed me, my love.

    • year unknown, Tymber Dalton, Disorder in the House [Suncoast Society], Siren-BookStrand (?ISBN), page 32:

      “Then...you get...bred.”

    • 2017, Casper Graham, Same Script, Different Cast [Scripts & Lyrics Trilogy], Siren-BookStrand (?ISBN), page 41:

      “I can't...can't last, baby.” / “I don't care. Come inside me. Breed me.”

    • 2017, Casper Graham, Nothing Short of a Miracle [Scripts & Lyrics Trilogy], Siren-BookStrand (?ISBN), page 19:

      "Are you clean?" he asked. / "Yeah, I get tested recently." / "Perfect. Breed me.”

Synonyms

• (take care of in infancy and through childhood): raise, bring up, rear

Derived terms

Related terms

• breed in the bone

Translations

Noun

breed (plural breeds)

1. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

   a breed of tulip

   a breed of animal

2. A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 12:

     And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence

     Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.

3. (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.

   People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.

Translations

Anagrams

• berde, brede, rebed

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch breed, from Middle Dutch brêet, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-West Germanic *braid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br???t/, [bre?t]

Adjective

breed (attributive breë, comparative breër, superlative breedste)

1. broad

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch brêet, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bre?t/, [bre?t]
• Hyphenation: breed
• Rhymes: -e?t

Adjective

breed (comparative breder, superlative breedst)

1. broad, wide

   Antonyms: nauw, smal

Inflection

Derived terms

• breedband
• breedbeeld
• breeddoek
• breedgebouwd
• breedgerand
• breedgeschouderd
• breedgetakt
• breedgetakt
• breedspraak
• breedte
• breedvoerig
• hemelsbreed
• kamerbreed
• verbreden

Descendants

• Afrikaans: breed
• ? West Frisian: breed

Anagrams

• brede

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch breed, displacing older brie.

Adjective

breed

1. broad, wide

Inflection

Derived terms

• breedteken

Further reading

• “breed”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English bred, from Old English br?ad, from Proto-Germanic *braud?. Cognates include English bread and Scots breid.

Noun

breed

1. bread

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?l, IPA^(key): /t?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

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 *til? (“planned point in time”). Not a shortening 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 ???????????? (til, “something fitting or suitable”).

Preposition

till

1. Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
   • 1854, Prof. John Wilson, The Genius and Character of Burns, p.194 (Google preview):

     Similar sentiments will recur to everyone familiar with his writings all through them till the very end.
2. (obsolete) To, up to (physically).
3. (dialectal) To make it possible that.
   • 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.

Usage notes

"till" in this context is usually considered colloquial in modern English (except for in some regional variants such as Indian English) and in most cases can be replaced by "until" or "to".

Synonyms

• (until): til (nonstandard), 'til (nonstandard), until

Translations

Conjunction

till

1. Until, until the time that.

   Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.

   • 1846, Edward Lear, The Book of Nonsense:

     She twirled round and round, / Till she sunk underground, […]

   • 1912, anonymous, Punky Dunk and the Mouse, P.F. Volland & Co.:

     And the Mouse sat and laughed till he cried.

Synonyms

• (until): til (nonstandard), 'til (poetic), until; see also Thesaurus:until

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English tylle (“till”), possibly from Middle English tillen (“to draw”) from Old English *tyllan (“to draw, attract”) (as in betyllan (“to lure, decoy”) and fortyllan (“to draw away”); related to *tollian > Middle English tollen). Cognate with Albanian ndjell (“I lure, attract”).

Alternatively, Middle English tylle is from Anglo-Norman tylle (“compartment”), from Old French tille (“compartment, shelter on a ship”), from Old Norse þilja (“plank”).

Noun

till (plural tills)

1. A cash register.
2. A removable box within a cash register containing the money.

   Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.

3. 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.

4. (obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest.

Derived terms

• have one's hand in the till

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English tilyen, from Old English tilian.

Verb

till (third-person singular simple present tills, present participle tilling, simple past and past participle tilled)

1. (transitive) To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
2. (transitive) To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
3. (intransitive) To cultivate soil.
4. (obsolete) To prepare; to get.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of W. Browne to this entry?)

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:till.

Translations

Etymology 4

Unknown, but possibly via etymology 3 (the verb) because alluvial deposit is used as a fertilizer.

Noun

till

1. glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
2. (dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land

Derived terms

• glacial till

Translations

Etymology 5

From Middle English tylle; shortened from lentile (English lentil).

Noun

till (plural tills)

1. A vetch; a tare.

References

General

• till in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• till in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Until, Till, 'Til, or 'Till? in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, 11 June 2019.

Footnotes

Anagrams

• it'll, lilt

Estonian

Noun

till (genitive tilli, partitive tilli)

1. dill (herb)
2. (slang) penis

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Middle English

Verb

till

1. Alternative form of tillen (“to enthrall”)

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??i??/

Verb

till (past thill, future tillidh, verbal noun tilleadh, past participle tillte)

1. to return, come back
2. to relapse

References

• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish til, from Old Norse til, from Proto-Germanic *tila- (“goal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/

Preposition

till

1. to

   Välkommen till Sverige!

   Welcome to Sweden!

   Ge den till mig.

   Give it to me.

   Vi behöver två till fem nya datorer.

   We need two to five new computers.

2. for

   en bra TV till ett bra pris

   a good TV for a good price

   Vad vill du ha till middag?

   What do you want for dinner?

   en present till min syster

   a present for my sister

   pengar till resan

   money for the trip

3. with

   Jag tar mjölk till mitt kaffe

   I take milk with my coffee

Usage notes

• Earlier, till governed the genitive case. Remains can still be found in certain expressions: tillbaka (“back”), till bords (“to the table”), till buds (“to aid, at hand”), till doms (“to judgement”), tillfreds (“at peace, content”), till godo (“for good, as credit”), till hands (“at hand”), tillhanda (“at hand, available”), till havs (“to sea”), till kojs (“to bed”), till kungs (“to the king”), till lags (“of service, to please”), till lands (“on land”), till livs (“to life, to eat”), till påska (“until Easter”), till reds (“to aid”), till sjöss (“to sea”), till skogs (“to the forest”), till sängs (“to bed”), till torgs (“to the market”), till väders (“in the air”)

Derived terms

• hur står det till?

Adverb

till

1. another; in addition
   • Jag ska vara här en vecka till.
     • I'll be here for another week.

Wolof

Noun

till (definite form till gi)

1. jackal