Till

[tɪl]

解釋/意思:

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

(verb.) work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation; 'till the soil'.

整理:尼古拉斯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A vetch; a tare.

(n.) A drawer.

(n.) A tray or drawer in a chest.

(n.) A money drawer in a shop or store.

(n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.

(n.) A kind of coarse, obdurate land.

(v. t.) To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week.

(conj.) As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until.

(prep.) To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm.

(prep.) To prepare; to get.

(v. i.) To cultivate land.

編輯:洛娜

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Money-drawer.

prep. Until, to the time of, up to.

conj. or ad. Until, to the time when.

v. a. Cultivate.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Plow, prepare, cultivate, dress, tend

ANT:Neglect, waste, abandon, fallow

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解釋/意思:

n. a money-box or drawer in a desk counter or trunk.

n. the usual name in Scotland for Boulder-clay a widely-distributed stony clay usually tough and hard unquestionably the result of glaciation probably being merely the bottom-moraine or ground-moraine of extinct glaciers.

prep. to the time of.—adv. to the time when: to the degree that.

v.t. to cultivate.—adj. Till′able arable.—ns. Till′age act or practice of tilling: husbandry: a place tilled; Till′er; Till′ing.

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