till
//tɪl//
informalForms
- Plural
- tills
- present (v1)
- till
- past (v2)
- tilled
- past participle (v3)
- tilled
- present participle
- tilling
- 3rd person singular
- tills
Definitions
1.A cash register.
- How many hours left till arrival?
- I will have to wait till I finish schooling and start earning money.
- You can stay till tonight.
2.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.
- That said, and I'll put this down to its newness, the bin lid was a bit snappy, like Arkwright's till (google that if you're a youngster).
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.A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.
- How many hours left till arrival?
- I will have to wait till I finish schooling and start earning money.
- You can stay till tonight.
1.Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
- I have to work till eight o'clock tonight.
- The line was authorised on June 23, 1864, but not opened till July 11, 1881.
- Similar sentiments will recur to everyone familiar with his writings all through them till the very end.
2.Before (a certain time or event).
- Is that the town-clock striking? / I think that it is to-night / My fever will reach its crisis, / There are long hours yet till light.
1.Until, until the time that.
- And the Mouse sat and laughed till he cried.
- Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.
- I charge you, O ye daughters of Ierusalem, by the Roes, and by the hindes of the field, that ye stirre not vp, nor awake my loue, till she please.
1.To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3528
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
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 *tilą (“planned point in time”).