Gill vs Till - What's the difference?
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(animal anatomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
* Ray
(of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
(mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, on the surface of which the spore-producing organs are borne.
(animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
(figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
(spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.
* 2014 , Scott Tippett, Polaris (ISBN 1304268179), page 99:
(lb) To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.
* 1898 , Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor , page 255:
* 1971 , Michael Culley, ?G. A. Kerkut, The Pilchard: Biology and Exploitation (ISBN 1483186784), page 70:
* 1994 , G.D. Pickett, ?M.G. Pawson, Sea Bass: Biology (ISBN 0412400901), page 177:
(lb) To be or become entangled in a gillnet.
* 2010 , Edward A. Perrine, Midnight Tracy (ISBN 0557472334), page 147:
A drink measure for spirits and wine. Size varies regionally but it is about one quarter of a pint.
(archaic, British) A measuring jug holding a quarter or half a pint.
To.
*, Bk.XVIII, Ch.vii:
*:Than the knyghtes parters of the lystis toke up Sir Madore and led hym tylle hys tente.
*1854 , Prof. John Wilson, The Genius and Character of Burns ,
*:Similar sentiments will recur to everyone familiar with his writings all through them till the very end.
Until, up to, as late as (a given time).
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until, until the time that
* 1582 , 2:7:
* 1846 , Edward Lear, The Book of Nonsense :
* 1912 , anonymous, Punky Dunk and the Mouse , P.F. Volland & Co.:
A cash register
A removable box within a cash register containing the money
The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift
(obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest.
to develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc)
to work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops
* Bible, Genesis iii. 23
to cultivate soil
(obsolete) To prepare; to get.
glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
(dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land
As proper nouns the difference between gill and till
is that gill is while till is .As a noun gill
is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc.gill
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills .
- Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills .
- (Jonathan Swift)
Synonyms
* (mycology) lamellaDerived terms
* green about the gills * to the gillsSee also
* lungVerb
(en verb)- She gutted and gilled the fish, then scaled it.
- Owing to the peculiar shape of the pompano and the relatively large mesh in the pompano gill nets, the fish are not caught by being actually gilled .
- In cases of very heavy catches the nets may be hauled and stored with the fish still gilled . The fish would then be shaken out on return to the port.
- The intention is to gill the fish, so they are usually scared into the net by rowing one boat into the middle of the net circle and banging the oars on the boat bottom or splashing the water.
- Also, when fish gilled there wasn't as much extra twine to tangle in, so they were easier to release from the net.
Quotations
* 1948 , Oliver Hazard Perry Rodman, The Saltwater Fisherman's Favorite Four , page 166: *: As we had fish home in the icebox, when Bill led the fish up alongside, I leaned over the combing, gilled the fish with my fingers, slid out the hook and let go. The bass lay there for a moment, tired from the arch of the rod and the pull of the line.References
* Walter Koelz, Fishing industry of the Great Lakes (1926), page 556: Since the fine threads of the net usually are caught under the gill covers of the fish they are said to be "gilled."Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl)Etymology 4
Etymology uncertain.Etymology 5
Alternative forms
* gilltill
English
Preposition
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Synonyms
* (until) til, 'til, untilConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.
- that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.
- She twirled round and round, / Till she sunk underground,
- And the Mouse sat and laughed till he cried.
Synonyms
* (until) 'til, untilEtymology 2
From (etyl) tillen'' "to draw" from (etyl) ''-tyllan'' (as in ''betyllan'' "to lure, decoy," and ''fortyllan'' "draw away;" related to ''tollian ). Cognate with Albanian . Or alternatively from (etyl) tylle'' "compartment" from (etyl) ''tille'' "compartment, shelter on a ship" from (etyl) '' "plank."Noun
(en noun)- Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.
- My count of my till was 30 dollars short.
Etymology 3
(etyl) tilianVerb
(en verb)- The Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.