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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
Tell
n 1: 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) [syn: Tell, William Tell]
v 1: express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her";
"tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion";
"state your name" [syn: state, say, tell]
2: let something be known; "Tell them that you will be late"
3: narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened";
"The father told a story to his child" [syn: tell,
narrate, recount, recite]
4: give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with
authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do
the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"
[syn: order, tell, enjoin, say]
5: discern or comprehend; "He could tell that she was unhappy"
6: inform positively and with certainty and confidence; "I tell
you that man is a crook!" [syn: assure, tell]
7: give evidence; "he was telling on all his former colleague"
[syn: tell, evidence]
8: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
[syn: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern,
secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell
apart]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Tell \Tell\, v. i.
1. To give an account; to make report.
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That I may publish with the voice of thankgiving,
and tell of all thy wondrous works. --Ps. xxvi. 7.
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2. To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot
tells; every expression tells.
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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.]
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Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David.
--1 Sam.
xxvii. 11.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Tell \Tell\ (t[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Told (t[=o]ld); p.
pr. & vb. n. Telling.] [AS. tellan, from talu tale, number,
speech; akin to D. tellen to count, G. z[aum]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.
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He telleth the number of the stars. --Ps. cxlvii.
4.
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Tell the joints of the body. --Jer. Taylor.
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2. To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to
narrate.
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Of which I shall tell all the array. --Chaucer.
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And not a man appears to tell their fate. --Pope.
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3. To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
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Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
--Gen. xii.
18.
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4. To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to
teach; to inform.
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A secret pilgrimage,
That you to-day promised to tell me of? --Shak.
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5. To order; to request; to command.
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He told her not to be frightened. --Dickens.
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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.
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7. To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to
estimate. [Obs.]
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I ne told no dainity of her love. --Chaucer.
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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.
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To tell off, to count; to divide. --Sir W. Scott.
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Syn: To communicate; impart; reveal; disclose; inform;
acquaint; report; repeat; rehearse; recite.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Tell \Tell\, n.
That which is told; tale; account. [R.]
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I am at the end of my tell. --Walpole.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Tell \Tell\, n. [Ar.]
A hill or mound. --W. M. Thomson.
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Thesaurus Results for tell:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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