What's the difference between alluvial and till?

Alluvial


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The influence of salt mixtures consisting of Ca(H2PO4)2, trace elements, CaSO4, CaCO3, Na2CO3, NaCl and K2SO4 in different combinations on the nitrifying power, evolution of carbon dioxide and the total number of bacteria was studied in arid soils (sandy and alluvial) and semi-humid ones (chernozem and rendzina).
  • (2) Adsorption and movement of carbofuran (a systemic nematicide) were studied using two Indian soils (clay loam and silt loam) of alluvial origin.
  • (3) Most of the new habitats, unlike previously known areas, are not in alluvial plains, but are at higher elevations.
  • (4) Zimbabwe also has the world's second biggest platinum reserves and hugely controversial deposits of alluvial diamonds .
  • (5) Alluvial soils were more favorable than eroded hill soils.
  • (6) Movement and Metabolism of 32P and 35S-double labeled Kitazin P (S-benzyl O,O-diisopropyl phosphorothiolate) and 35S-labeled edifenphos (O-ethyl S,S-diphenyl phosphorodithiolate) were examined with three types of soils, sandy loam, alluvial clay loam, and volcanic ash loam.
  • (7) The rate of biological nitrogen fixation was determined by the acetylene technique in soils and on the roots of orange, mandarin and lemon trees growing in red, yellow, podzolic, alluvial brown forest, and humus-calcareous soils.
  • (8) Vertical movement of both the compounds in soil column was different with soil types, and the order of mobility in soil column was as follows: sandy loam greater than alluvial clay loam greater than volcanic ash loam.
  • (9) Over 5 day incubation under flooded conditions, greater volatile loss of lindane occurred in sandy soil than in alluvial soil apparanetly due to greater adsorption to the soil colloids decreasing the insecticide concentration in the standing water on the laterite soil.
  • (10) By the 1890s our town was full of miners toiling to extract what was left of its alluvial gold.
  • (11) and Pseudomonas sp., were isolated from parathionamended flooded alluvial soil which exhibited parathion-hydrolyzing ability.
  • (12) However, the city is known for its numerous potholes mostly on the side streets because of the alluvial soil which is always shifting and moving depending on whether it's wet or dry.
  • (13) Salt mixtures comprising either monocalcium phosphate or sodium chloride showed highly inhibiting action on the studied microbial activities in sandy, alluvial, and chernozem soils, while monocalcium phosphate stimulated the heterotrophs of rendzina.
  • (14) Samples from two depths (0--15 and 15--30 cm) of five Egyptian soils: sandy, calcareous, fertile alluvial, saline alluvial, and alkali alluvial were tested for urease activity.
  • (15) Kitazin P under flooded condition of alluvial clay loam was slightly more persistent as compared with upland condition.
  • (16) A real political life can be restored in a Labour party that has received an alluvial flood of new members.
  • (17) Shenhua has consistently argued that the Watermark mine would not affect the plains’ alluvial aquifers, which feed the Namoi catchment, because the three open-cut pits will be on ridges above the plains.
  • (18) The influence of different doses of boron (100, 500 and 1000 ppm) and cadmium (50, 100, 500, 1000 and 2000 ppm) on the activity of nitrogen fixation in the sandy and alluvial soil has been studied.
  • (19) The rover took the images with a telephoto camera on its central mast, downhill from a pattern of sediments called an alluvial fan created by several water streams perhaps billions of years ago.
  • (20) The soil was found to be of great variability, being fertile where it was of alluvial origin but of reduced potential where it was non-alluvial.

Till


Definition:

  • (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.
  • (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 prepare; to get.
  • (v. i.) To cultivate land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As could be expected, objective response was seen in only a small number of patients followed up till 9 months.
  • (2) During heavy exercise at 65-75% of VO2 max, time till exhaustion correlates with the pre-exercise muscle glycogen concentration and exhaustion coincides with empty glycogen stores.
  • (3) Now cases cured till Dec. 1987 are 4640 (1120 MB + 3520 PB) 17 cases relapsed after MDT (15 PB + 2 MB).
  • (4) Up till now none of the available laser systems are optimal for application in the cardiovascular system, but still many of them have been effective clinically.
  • (5) They were till now used mainly to regulate contraception and menstrual flow.
  • (6) Everything on Tonight's the Night was recorded and mixed before On the Beach was started, but it was never finished or put into its complete order till later.
  • (7) 50 patients treated in the period from 1925 till 1977 with a spondylolisthesis of more than 50% have been reviewed.
  • (8) In our opinion in case of typical anamnesis the cerclage-operation is to be performed earlier than in the practice up till now, before opening the cervical os, and the infection of the amnion.
  • (9) Recurrent free curves were compared till 1050 days after the initiation of the study.
  • (10) Social workers were branded as communists and detained till they confessed, often after coercive treatment.
  • (11) And he says the north has been pretty underserved till now.
  • (12) Thus, these two species are more closely related than suggested earlier; g) Till now, no Mycobacterium has been found showing nicotinamidase without "pyrazinamidase" activity (or vice versa).
  • (13) The new antibody specificity is a specific serological finding in patients with Bechterew's disease and is therefore suitable for use as a diagnostic, and perhaps also as a prognostic test for this type of spondylarthritis till now assumed to be seronegative.
  • (14) This is the story of Emmett Till and Eric Garner, and a thousand stories in between.
  • (15) It was then gradually elevated from the beginning of the 1st month following excision till it reached 88% of the level before excision at the 10th month.
  • (16) What’s more, older people are now topping up pensions by doing a few hours a week stacking shelves or operating the tills at the supermarket.
  • (17) Who is going to take on these duties when the current generation will have to literally work till they drop?
  • (18) An endemic hospital infection caused by E. coli 0111:B4 together with Pseudomonas aeruginosa was observed in a county hospital over the period October 1973 till January 1974, which could not be brought under control by routine preventive measures against cross-infections established on the wards.
  • (19) The colony-forming activity of embryo lung cells CBA mice was determined according to the Till and McCulloch technique (1961).
  • (20) I’ve lived in rooms in attics, and I worked till I was 70.