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| Main Entry: |
till
 [til] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cash box |
| Synonyms: | box, cash drawer, cash register, kitty, money box, safe, tray, treasury, vault |
| Main Entry: | clay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | workable earth material |
| Synonyms: | adobe, argil, argillaceous earth, bole, brick, china material, clunch, earth, kaolin, loam, loess, marl, mud, porcelain material, pottery, slip, terra cotta, till, wacke |
| Main Entry: | cultivate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop land for growing |
| Synonyms: | breed, crop, dress, farm, fertilize, garden, harvest, labor, manage, mature, plant, plow, prepare, propagate, raise, ripen, seed, tend, till, work |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ignore, neglect |
Example Sentences
- On the other sit the farmers who used to till the land until they were evicted.
- Two belching diesel generators that have till now provided the electricity to keep the lights on will be put out to pasture.
- There's no such answer yet till now on the scientific aspect.
| Main Entry: | dig |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | delve into; hollow out |
| Synonyms: | bore, break up, bulldoze, burrow, cat, channel, clean, concave, deepen, depress, dig down, discover, dredge, drill, drive, enter, excavate, exhume, fork out, go into, gouge, grub, harvest, hoe, investigate, mine, penetrate, pierce, pit, probe, produce, quarry, root, root out, rout, sap, scoop, scoop out, search, shovel, sift, spade, till, tunnel, turn over, uncover, undermine, unearth |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | farm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce crops, raise animals |
| Synonyms: | bring under cultivation, crop, cultivate, direct, dress, garden, graze, grow, harrow, harvest, homestead, husband, landscape, look after, operate, pasture, plant, plow, ranch, reap, run, seed, sow, subdue, superintend, tend, till, till the soil, work |
| Main Entry: | meanwhile |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | at the same time |
| Synonyms: | ad interim, concurrently, during the interval, for now, for the duration, for the moment, for the time being, for then, in the interim, in the interval, in the intervening time, in the meantime, meantime, simultaneously, till, until, up to, when |
| Notes: | meantime means the time between one occurrence and another; meanwhile means during the intervening time |
| Main Entry: | plow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dig up ground for cultivation |
| Synonyms: | break, break ground, bulldoze, cultivate, farm, furrow, harrow, harvest, list, push, rake, reap, ridge, rush, shove, smash, till, trench, turn, turn over |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | proceeds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earnings from business |
| Synonyms: | gain, gate, handle, income, interest, lucre, produce, product, profit, receipts, result, returns, revenue, reward, split, take, takings, till, yield |
| Antonyms: | loss |
| Main Entry: | until |
| Part of Speech: | preposition |
| Definition: | just before |
| Synonyms: | as far as, before, before the coming, continuously, down to, in advance of, in expectation, prior to, till, to, up till, up to |
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