until

[Un*tilĀ·]

As far as; to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; till. See Till, conj.

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To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects.


prep.
To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects.

prep.
To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid until evening; he will not come back until the end of the month.

conj.
As far as; to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; till. See Till, conj.


Until

Un*til" , prep. [OE. until, ontil; un- (as in unto) + til till; cf. Dan. indtil, Sw. intill. See Unto, and Till, prep.] 1. To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects. Chaucer.
Taverners until them told the same.
He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until.
2. To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid until evening; he will not come back until the end of the month.
He and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity.
&hand; In contracts and like documents until is construed as exclusive of the date mentioned unless it was the manifest intent of the parties to include it.

Until

Un*til", conj. As far as; to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; till. See Till, conj.
In open prospect nothing bounds our eye, Until the earth seems joined unto the sky.
But the rest of the dead lives not again until the thousand years were finished.

To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects.

As far as; to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; till. See Till, conj.

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Usage Examples

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

"I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, ""Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect."

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

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