What's the difference between hill and till?

Hill


Definition:

  • (n.) A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.
  • (n.) The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t.
  • (v. t.) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes.
  • (v. t.) To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (2) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
  • (3) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
  • (4) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
  • (5) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
  • (6) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
  • (7) While ITV1's Harry Hill and the final series of BBC1's Gavin and Stacey will stay put, Sky1 did manage to secure US drama House, starring Hugh Laurie, from Channel Five, paying an estimated £500,000 an episode.
  • (8) For this purpose the molecular models of Monod-Wyman-Changeux (MWC) and of Koshland-Nemethy-Filmer (KNF) are tested by showing how the different plots, direct, reciprocal, Scatchard and Hill, vary as do the parameters considered in these models.
  • (9) Hill coefficients for these agents were 1.1, 0.9, and 1.1, suggesting binding to a single receptor.
  • (10) This activation has a Hill coefficient of 3 with respect to F-, and its rate is linear with respect to Mg2+ concentrations above 2 mM.
  • (11) In primary culture, CSM cells attached to the culture vessels by 48 to 72 h, proliferated by 3 to 7 d, and reached confluency by 14 to 17 d with a "hill-and-valley" pattern.
  • (12) To determine whether perioperative blood transfusion affected the recurrence rate of squamous cell cancer of the head and neck, we performed a retrospective study of all patients with stage III and IV disease treated surgically at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, between 1983 and 1986.
  • (13) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (14) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
  • (15) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
  • (16) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
  • (17) Cleeve Hill was once the site of a 'bawdy' racecourse, before it was moved down the hill into genteel Cheltenham.
  • (18) The typical balance of power on Capitol Hill over surveillance is such that opponents of renewing Section 702 face strong political headwinds.
  • (19) With its steep hills and cobblestones, the neighbourhood of São Cristóvão in Ouro Preto isn’t an easy place to play football.
  • (20) Half-maximal inhibition of [3H]PN200-110 binding occurred at 19 nM with a Hill coefficient of 0.96.

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.