Dictionary
tell
Meaning
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- To count, reckon, or enumerate.
- To narrate, to recount.
- To convey by speech; to say.
- To instruct or inform.
- To order; to direct, to say to someone.
- To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
- To reveal.
- To be revealed.
- To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
- To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
- To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
- To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɛl/
Cognate with Western Frisian
telle
Cognate with Western Frisian
fertelle
Cognate with Dutch
tellen
Cognate with Dutch
vertellen
Cognate with German
zählen
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