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iodometry(dictionary)
Till(medicine)
till(encyclopedia)
till(6)(dictionary)
till(5)(dictionary)
till(4)(dictionary)
till(3)(dictionary)
till(2)(dictionary)
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till(4) (iou) and iodometry (iou)


till(4) (iou)



till preposition & conjunction.
[Old English (Northumbrian) til preposition with dat. = Old Frisian til (with dat.), Old Norse til (with genit.); prob. from adverbial use of Germanic noun meaning 'aim, goal' (cf. TILL verb1) repr. by Old English till fixed point. Cf. UNTIL, UNTO.]
A. preposition.
To (expressing position, direction, relationship, etc.); as far as. Now only Scot. & north. OE.
T. Fuller He was..restored till his liberty and arch-bishoprick.
a. Onward to (a specified time); up to the time of (an event); during the time before. Freq. with adverb or adverbial phr. of time. ME.
C. Kingsley A plant till then unknown to me. J. Buchan I had not..heard his name till that afternoon.
b. Used in stating the time of day: to. US. M20.
H. Kurath In..the Midland..quarter till eleven is current.
Introducing an inf.: to. Now only Scot. ME.
Sir W. Scott An ye had wussed till hae been present.
After a neg.: before (a specified time). Cf. UNTIL preposition 5. L16.
Defoe [He] begged of me not to go on shore till day.
b. conjunction.
To the time that; up to the point when. Formerly also foll. by that. ME.
Spenser They traveiled..Till that at last they to a Castle came. V. Woolf We talked till I left at 8.
= UNTIL conjunction 2. ME.
Mrs H. Ward Bessie ran till she was out of breath.
During the time that; so long as; while. ME-E17.
After a neg.: before the time that; before; when. Cf. UNTIL conjunction 3. Now dial. & US. LME.
W. Lithgow Scarcely were wee well advanced in our way, till wee were beset with..three hundred Arabs.
In order that (one) may, so that. Scot. & Anglo-Irish. L19.
A. J. Cronin Come till I give ye a grand, big hug.
Phrases: till and frae (long obsolete exc. Scot.) to and fro. up till: see UP adverb1.

iodometry (iou)



iodometry noun. L19.
[from IODO- + -METRY.]
Chemistry. Redox titration using iodine; spec. the quantitative analysis of a solution of an oxidizing agent by addition of excess iodide to liberate iodine which is then titrated, usu. with thiosulphate using starch as indicator. Cf. IODIMETRY.
iodo'metric adjective of or pertaining to iodometry M19.
iodo'metrically adverb by means of iodometry E20.