till

名词 n. 动词 v. 介词 prep. 连词 conj.
中文释义
发音 tĭl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A vetch; a tare.
  2. glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
  3. A cash register. UK
    — I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue.
  4. manure or other material used to fertilize land dialectal
  5. A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
    — Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.
  6. 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.
  7. A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.
  8. A tray or drawer in a chest. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.). transitive
  2. To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops. transitive
    — Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
  3. To cultivate soil. intransitive
  4. To prepare; to get. obsolete
    — Nor knowes a trappe nor snare to till
介词 prep.
  1. Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
    — She stayed till the very end.
  2. Before (a certain time or event).
    — It's twenty till two. (1:40)
  3. To, up to (physically). dialectal,obsolete
    — They led him till his tent
  4. To, toward (in attitude). dialectal,obsolete
    — "Here's at you old hoss!" hiccupped I, with a friendly pitch in the way of a nod at Rice. "Go it, young grampus, that's me! Here's till ye, my infant progidy!" replied he, as he clinked his glass against mine.
  5. So that (something may happen). dialectal
    — 1953?, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot VLADIMIR: Together again at last! We'll have to celebrate this. But how? (He reflects.) Get up till I embrace you.
连词 conj.
  1. Until, until the time that.
    — Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.

词形变化

'til alternative,nonstandard til alternative,nonstandard 'til alternative,nonstandard til alternative,nonstandard tills plural tills present,singular,third-person tilling participle,present tilled participle,past tilled past tills plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cast not a clout till May be out ne'er cast a clout till May be out don't knock it till you've tried it don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear fake it till one makes it it ain't over till it's over it ain't over till the fat lady sings it isn't over till the fat lady sings six ways till Sunday the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it till all hours till date till death do us part till death us do part till doomsday till the cow come home till the cows come home till time up till wait till the clouds roll by you don't miss the water till the well runs dry you never know what you've got till it's gone you never miss the water till the well runs dry have one's fingers in the till have one's hand in the till till money till point till-tapper intertill no-till overtill retill tillable tiller tillman tilly tilth zero-till glacial till

词源

词源 1
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”). Not a contraction of until; rather, until comes from till with the prefix un- (“against; toward; up to”) also found in unto. Cognate with Old Frisian til (“to, till”), Danish til (“to”), Swedish till (“to, till”), Icelandic til (“to, till”). Also related to Old English til (“good”), German Ziel (“goal”), Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌻 (til, “something fitting or suitable”).
词源 2
From Middle English tylle (“till”), possibly from Middle English tillen (“to draw”) from Old English *tyllan (“to draw, attract”) (as in betyllan (“to lure, decoy”) and fortyllan (“to draw away”); related to *tollian > Middle English tollen). Cognate with Albanian ndjell (“to lure, attract”).
Alternatively, Middle English tylle is from Anglo-Norman tylle (“compartment”), from Old French tille (“compartment, shelter on a ship”), from Old Norse þilja (“plank”).
词源 3
From Middle English tilyen, from Old English tilian.
词源 4
Unknown, but possibly via etymology 3 (the verb) because alluvial deposit is used as a fertilizer.
词源 5
From Middle English tylle; shortened from lentile (English lentil).
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