different between until vs untie

English

Etymology

From Middle English until, untill, ontil, ontill, equivalent to un- (“against; toward; up to”) +? till. Perhaps representing a northern variant of Middle English unto. See unto.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ?n-t?l?, ?n-t?l? IPA^(key): /?n?t?l/, /?n?t?l/, /?n?t?l/
• (US) enPR: ?n-t?l?, ?n-t?l? IPA^(key): /?n?t?l/, /?n?t?l/
• Rhymes: -?l
• Hyphenation: un?til

Preposition

until

1. Up to the time of (something happening).

   If you can wait until after my meeting with her, we'll talk then.
2. Before (a time).
3. (obsolete) To; physically towards.

Synonyms

• till (less formal)
• 'til (less formal)
• up to

Antonyms

• since

Derived terms

• 'til

Translations

Conjunction

until

1. Up to the time that (a condition becomes true).

   • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
2. Before (a condition becoming true).

Synonyms

• (up to the time that): till (less formal), 'til (nonstandard); see also Thesaurus:until
• (before): afore, before

Derived terms

• 'til

Translations

Anagrams

• nutil, unlit

English

Etymology

From Middle English untien, unteyen, unty?en, unti?en, from Old English unt??an (“to untie”), equivalent to un- +? tie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?ta?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

untie (third-person singular simple present unties, present participle untying, simple past and past participle untied)

1. (transitive) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
   • 1645, Edmund Waller, To Amoret

     Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.

2. (transitive) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
   • c. 1605,, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 4, scene 1:

     Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.

   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.

3. To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
   • 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)

     They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.

4. (intransitive) To become untied or loosed.
5. (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
   • 2002, Dave Roth, Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions (page 151)

     After you finish with the INI file, all you need to do is untie the hash. Then you really are finished!

Antonyms

• tie

Translations

Anagrams

• unite