till

(noun, verb, conjunction, preposition)

conjunction

1. Until, until the time that.

- Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.

noun

1. unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together

Definition categories: substance, dirt, soil

2. a treasury for government funds

Similar word(s): trough

Definition categories: possession, exchequer, treasury

3. a strongbox for holding cash

Similar word(s): cashbox

Definition categories: man–made, strongbox

Sentences with till as a noun:

- Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.

- My count of my till was 30 dollars short.

preposition

1. (now dialectal) To.

2. Until, up to, as late as (a given time).

- I have to work till eight o'clock tonight.

- She stayed till the very end.

verb

1. work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation

- till the soil

Definition categories: creation, process, work