What's the difference between late and till?

Late


Definition:

  • (v.) Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.
  • (v.) Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life.
  • (v.) Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration.
  • (v.) Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the late rains; we have received late intelligence.
  • (v.) Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher.
  • (a.) After the usual or proper time, or the time appointed; after delay; as, he arrived late; -- opposed to early.
  • (a.) Not long ago; lately.
  • (a.) Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
  • (2) We have addressed the effect of late intensification with autologous bone marrow transplantation on SCLC through a randomized clinical trial.
  • (3) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
  • (4) A domain containing a CA repeat, similar to ones found in other late, cAMP-induced Dictyostelium genes, is required for cAMP-induced and developmental expression.
  • (5) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
  • (6) Thus, successful thrombolysis decreases the frequency of ventricular ectopic activity and late potentials in the early postinfarction phase.
  • (7) We conclude that the rat somatosympathetic reflex consists of an early excitatory component due to the early activation of RVL-spinal sympathoexcitatory neurons with rapidly conducting axons and a later peak that may arise from the late activation of these same neurons as well as the early activation of RVL vasomotor neurons with more slowly conducting spinal axons.
  • (8) Blocks of hippocampal tissue containing the fascia dentata were taken from late embryonic and newborn rats and transplanted to the hippocampal region of other newborn and young adult rats.
  • (9) Psychological well-being and the level of psychological autonomy were studied in a group of 109 Jewish late adolescents in the USSR.
  • (10) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
  • (11) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
  • (12) The fact that IL-3, GM-CSF, and IL-5 regulate basophil function and viability in vitro demonstrates possible mechanisms for the regulation of basophil function and viability in IgE-mediated reactions (especially in late-phase reactions) in vivo by these factors.
  • (13) The rate of accumulation was highest late in infection and only the slower migrating form incorporates significant amounts of glucosamine.
  • (14) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
  • (15) In late May, more than 50 residents of Ust-Usa protested the effects of oil drilling and plans for a new oil well near the village.
  • (16) After early repair of congenital cardiovascular defects, such as coarctation of the aorta, late stenosis may become a problem.
  • (17) The Very Late Antigens (VLAs) are alpha beta heterodimeric transmembrane proteins mediating cell-substratum as well as cell-cell interactions.
  • (18) To determine if late viral genes contribute to target cell lysis, phosphonoacetic acid (PAA), an inhibitor of DNA polymerase activity, was used to block DNA replication that is required for expression of late viral proteins.
  • (19) Five late strokes were ipsilateral (1.8%) and six were contralateral (2.1%) to the operated carotid artery.
  • (20) Unrecognized flexion injuries of the cervical spine may lead to late instability and neurologic damage.

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.