Tell | English to English Dictionary

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Tell

(t/E/l )

express in words(verb.communication)

Example:
Tell me what is bothering you.

Synonym:
say, state

source: wordnet30
let something be known(verb.communication)

Example:
Tell them that you will be late.

source: wordnet30
narrate or give a detailed account of(verb.communication)

Example:
Tell what happened.

Synonym:
narrate, recite, recount

source: wordnet30
give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority(verb.communication)

Synonym:
enjoin, order, say

source: wordnet30
discern or comprehend(verb.cognition)

Example:
He could tell that she was unhappy.

source: wordnet30
inform positively and with certainty and confidence(verb.communication)

Example:
I tell you that man is a crook!.

Synonym:
assure

source: wordnet30
give evidence(verb.communication)

Example:
He was telling on all his former colleague.

Synonym:
evidence

source: wordnet30
mark as different(verb.cognition)

Synonym:
differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell apart

source: wordnet30
To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.(verb)

source: webster1913
To give an account; to make report.(verb)

source: webster1913