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What's The Definition Of Tell?
[n] a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)
[v] mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" [v] discern or comprehend; "He could tell that she was unhappy" [v] give instructions to or direct somebody to do something; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" [v] let something be known; "Tell them that you will be late" [v] narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" [v] give evidence; "he was telling on all his former colleague" [v] express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name" [v] inform positively and with certainty and confidence; "I tell you that man is a crook!" Synonyms | Synonyms for Tell: assure | differentiate | distinguish | enjoin | evidence | narrate | order | recite | recount | say | secern | secernate | separate | severalise | severalize | spin | state | tell apart | William Tell Related Terms | Find terms related to Tell: See Also | add | affirm | air | announce | annunciate | answer | append | archer | articulate | assert | aver | avow | bare | bespeak | betoken | bowman | break | bring out | brush down | call | command | compare | compel | contradistinguish | contrast | declare | demarcate | digress | direct | discern | disclose | discover | discriminate | dissociate | distinguish | divagate | divulge | enunciate | explain | expose | express | foretell | get out | give | give away | give tongue to | guess | harbinger | herald | identify | impart | indicate | individualise | individualize | infer | inform | ingeminate | instruct | introduce | iterate | know | know apart | label | lay out | leave | let on | let out | make out | mention | misstate | note | observe | pass on | pick out | place | point | preface | premise | present | propagandise | propagandize | publicise | publicize | recognise | recognize | reiterate | relate | remark | repeat | reply | represent | request | require | respond | restate | retell | reveal | rhapsodise | rhapsodize | send for | sex | signal | single out | stratify | stray | sum | sum up | summarise | summarize | supply | swan | swear | talk | tell apart | tell off | utter | verbalise | verbalize | verify | vocalise | vocalize | wander | warn | yarn Tell In Webster's Dictionary \Tell\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Told}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Telling}.] [AS. tellan, from talu tale, number, speech; akin
to D. tellen to count, G. z["a]hlen, OHG. zellen to count,
tell, say, Icel. telja, Dan. tale to speak, t[ae]lle to
count. See {Tale} that which is told.]
1. To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to
enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell
money. ``An heap of coin he told.'' --Spenser.
He telleth the number of the stars. --Ps. cxlvii.
4.
Tell the joints of the body. --Jer. Taylor.
2. To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to
narrate.
Of which I shall tell all the array. --Chaucer.
And not a man appears to tell their fate. --Pope.
3. To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
--Gen. xii.
18.
4. To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to
teach; to inform.
A secret pilgrimage, That you to-day promised to
tell me of? --Shak.
5. To order; to request; to command.
He told her not to be frightened. --Dickens.
6. To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to
find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color
ends and the other begins.
7. To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to
estimate. [Obs.]
I ne told no dainity of her love. --Chaucer.
Note: Tell, though equivalent in some respect to speak and
say, has not always the same application. We say, to
tell truth or falsehood, to tell a number, to tell the
reasons, to tell something or nothing; but we never
say, to tell a speech, discourse, or oration, or to
tell an argument or a lesson. It is much used in
commands; as, tell me the whole story; tell me all you
know.
{To tell off}, to count; to divide. --Sir W. Scott.
Syn: To communicate; impart; reveal; disclose; inform;
acquaint; report; repeat; rehearse; recite.
\Tell\, v. i. 1. To give an account; to make report. That I may publish with the voice of thankgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. --Ps. xxvi. 7. 2. To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells. {To tell of}. (a) To speak of; to mention; to narrate or describe. (b) To inform against; to disclose some fault of. {To tell on}, to inform against. [Archaic & Colloq.] Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David. --1 Sam. xxvii. 11. \Tell\, n. That which is told; tale; account. [R.] I am at the end of my tell. --Walpole. \Tell\, n. [Ar.] A hill or mound. --W. M. Thomson. |
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