Sekirov Dictionary

till

/tɪl/

conjunction 1
noun 8
preposition 5
verb 4
forms 5
phrases 1

conjunction1

•
up to the time when something else happens
- Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.

noun8

(UK) A cash register.
•
A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
- Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.
- When you've finished serving that customer could you jump off please? We need to take the till.
A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.
•
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.
glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
(dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land
A vetch; a tare.
(no longer used) A tray or drawer in a chest.

preposition5

•
Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
- She stayed till the very end.
- I have to work till eight o'clock tonight.
•
Before (a certain time or event).
- It's twenty till two. (1:40)
•
(dialect) So that (something may happen).
- VLADIMIR: Together again at last! We'll have to celebrate this. But how? (He reflects.) Get up till I embrace you. — 1953
•
(dialect, no longer used) To, up to (physically).
- They led him till his tent
•
(dialect, no longer used) To, toward (in attitude).
- "Well, Georgey," said he, "and soa you're leaving t'ould hoose at last?" - "Heigh, Johnny, my lad, I'm forced tull it; for that damned Boggart torments us soa, we can neither rest neet nor day for't." — 1850

verb4

To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
•
To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
- Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. — 1611
To cultivate soil.
(no longer used) To prepare; to get.

forms

tilled · tilling · tilleth · tills · tillest

Phrases with till

have one's hand in the till
To embezzle, to steal from one's place of business.

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