Tell Synonyms & Definitions

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• TellDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. i.) To give an account; to make report.
2. (v. t.) To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
3. (v. i.) To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells.
4. (v. t.) To order; to request; to command.
5. (v. t.) To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate.
6. (v. t.) To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.
7. (v. t.) To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.
8. (v. t.) To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform.
9. (v. t.) 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.
10. (n.) That which is told; tale; account.
11. (n.) A hill or mound.

• TelltaleDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) An arrangement consisting of long strips, as of rope, wire, or leather, hanging from a bar over railroad tracks, in such a position as to warn freight brakemen of their approach to a low overhead bridge.
2. (n.) A thing that serves to disclose something or give information; a hint or indication.
3. (n.) One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.
4. (n.) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
5. (n.) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.
6. (n.) A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessels course.
7. (a.) Telling tales; babbling.
8. (n.) The tattler. See Tattler.
9. (n.) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.

• TellerDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.
2. (n.) One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king.
3. (n.) One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.
4. (n.) One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.