VERB | creation | till | work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation |
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NOUN | substance | till, boulder clay | unstratified soil deposited by a glacier |
possession | till, public treasury, trough | a treasury for government funds | |
artifact | till, cashbox, money box | a strongbox for holding cash |
Sounds | tih'l | |
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Rhymes | Advil ... zill: 103 rhymes with ihl... |
Meaning | unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together. | |
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Synonym | boulder clay | |
Broader | soil, dirt | The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock |
Spanish | till | |
Verbs | till | work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation |
Meaning | A treasury for government funds. | |
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Synonyms | public treasury, trough | |
Broader | treasury, exchequer | The funds of a government or institution or individual |
Spanish | erario, fisco, hacienda, hacienda pública, tesoro público | |
Catalan | erari, fisc, hisenda, hisenda pública, tresor públic |
Meaning | A strongbox for holding cash. | |
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Synonyms | cashbox, money box | |
Narrower | cash register, register | A cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions |
Broader | strongbox, deedbox | A strongly made box for holding money or valuables |
Spanish | caja registradora |
Meaning | Work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "till the soil" | |
Category | farming, agriculture, husbandry | The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock |
Entails | cultivate, crop, work | Prepare for crops |
Narrower | hoe | dig with a hoe |
plow, plough, turn | To break and turn over earth especially with a plow | |
Broader | work, work on, process | shape, form, or improve a material |
Spanish | arar, cultivar, labrar | |
Catalan | conrear, cultivar, llaurar | |
Nouns | till | unstratified soil deposited by a glacier |
tillage | the cultivation of soil for raising crops | |
tillage | arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | |
tiller | a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | |
tiller | someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops) | |
tilling | cultivation of the land in order to raise crops |
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