till

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Preposition 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.2.2 Conjunction 1.2.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Verb 1.4.1.1 Quotations 1.4.1.2 Translations 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Noun 1.6 References 1.7 References 2 Estonian 2.1 Noun 3 Swedish 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Preposition

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: tĭl, IPA: /tɪl/, SAMPA: /tIl/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -ɪl

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English til, from Old Norse til^[1].

[edit] Preposition

till

1. Up to.

   • 1582: …that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please. Douay-Rheims bible, Book 24: Canticle of Canticles 2:7
   • 1846:She twirled round and round,/Till she sunk underground, … --Edward Lear The Book of Nonsense
   • 1912: And the Mouse sat and laughed till he cried. --Anon. Punky Dunk and the Mouse Pub. P.F. Volland & Co.

2. As late as.

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[edit] Conjunction

till

1. Up to the time that (something is true).
2. Before (something is true).

[edit] Synonyms

• 'til (nonstandard), until

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[edit] Etymology 2

Middle English

[edit] Noun

till (plural tills)

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

   Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe

3. The contents of a cash register or of a cash drawer, 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.

[edit] Etymology 3

Old English tilian

[edit] Verb

to 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.

[edit] Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

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[edit] Etymology 4

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

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Wikipedia

till (plural tills)

1. Glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders.
2. (dialectal) Manure or other material used to fertilize land.

[edit] References

• till in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• till in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

[edit] References

• Notes:

1. ^ “till” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001

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[edit] Estonian

[edit] Noun

till

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

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] 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.