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till
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
- 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.
- 1854, Prof. John Wilson, The Genius and Character of Burns, p.194 (Google preview):
- (obsolete) To, up to (physically).
- (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.
- 1953?, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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
- 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)
- A cash register.
- A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
- Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.
- 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.
- (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)
- (transitive) To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
- (transitive) To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
- (intransitive) To cultivate soil.
- (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
- glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
- (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)
- 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)
- dill (herb)
- (slang) penis
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Middle English
Verb
till
- 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)
- to return, come back
- 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
- 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.
- Välkommen till Sverige!
- 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
- en bra TV till ett bra pris
- with
- Jag tar mjölk till mitt kaffe
- I take milk with my coffee
- Jag tar mjölk till mitt kaffe
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
- another; in addition
- Jag ska vara här en vecka till.
- I'll be here for another week.
- Jag ska vara här en vecka till.
Wolof
Noun
till (definite form till gi)
- jackal
till From the web:
- what till means
- what tiller do i need
- what will you see it from the back
- what tillage
- what tillage means
util
English
Etymology
From utility.
Noun
util (plural utils)
- (economics) A hypothetical unit measuring satisfaction.
- Synonyms: hedon, utile, utilon
- Antonym: dolor
- (informal, computing) A utility.
Anagrams
- lit?
Limos Kalinga
Noun
utíl
- (anatomy) clitoris
Middle French
Noun
util m (plural utils)
- Alternative form of outil
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin ?tilis.
Adjective
util m (feminine singular utila, masculine plural utils, feminine plural utilas)
- useful
Related terms
- utilitat
- utilizar
Further reading
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 1013.
Romanian
Etymology
From French utile, from Latin ?tilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /u?til/
Adjective
util m or n (feminine singular util?, masculine plural utili, feminine and neuter plural utile)
- helpful
- useful
Declension
Antonyms
- inutil
Related terms
- utilitate
- utiliza
Further reading
- util in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
util From the web:
- what utilities do i need
- what utilities are included in rent
- what utilities are there
- what utilities service my address
- what utilities do you pay in an apartment
- what utilities do i need to set up
- what utilities do apartments cover
- what utilities are covered under ppp
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