Definizione monolingua

tell

tell (third-person singular simple present tells, present participle telling, simple past and past participle told)

1. (rare or archaic) To count or enumerate.

   All told, there were over a dozen.

   • 1875, Hugh MacMillan, The Sunday Magazine:

     Only He who made them can tell the number of the stars, and mark the place of each in the order of the one great dominant spiral.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     And in his lap a masse of coyne he told, / And turned vpsidowne, to feede his eye / A couetous desire with his huge threasury.

2. (transitive) To narrate.

   I want to tell a story.

   I want to tell you a story.

3. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.

   Finally, someone told him the truth.

   He seems to like to tell lies.

4. (transitive) To instruct or inform.

   Please tell me the time.

5. (transitive) To order; to direct.

   Tell him to go away.

6. (transitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

   Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance?

   No, theres no way to tell.

7. (transitive) To reveal.

   Time will tell what became of him.

8. (intransitive) To be revealed.
   • 1990, Stephen Coonts, Under Siege, 1991 Pocket Books edition, ISBN 0671742949, page 409:

     Cherry looks old, Mergenthaler told himself. His age is telling. Querulous — thats the word. Hes become a whining, querulous old man absorbed with trivialities.

9. (intransitive) to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
   • 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, BBC Sport:

     But Englands superior fitness told in the second half, with Delon Armitage, Manu Tuilagi and Chris Ashton (two) going over for tries to secure a bonus-point win.

tell (plural tells)

1. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, esp. one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (e.g., a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals (gives away) information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.

Definizione dizionario tell

	raccontare
	To talk about a story giving its details.

dire

contare

ordinare

annunciare

avvertire

avvisare

comunicare

confessare

conoscere

denunciare

descrivere

dichiarare

distinguere

divulgare

informare

ingiungere

intendere

mandare

manifestare

menzionare

narrare

notificare

parlare

riconoscere

riferire

rivelare

spiegare

suonare

Altri significati:

(archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

to discern, notice, identify or distinguish

to pass information

to instruct

(transitive) To order; to direct.

tell on (someone)

(transitive) To reveal.

(intransitive) To be revealed.

(transitive) To narrate.

tell (lies)

To see someone or something as different from others.

tell (somebody)

A reflexive, often habitual behavior, esp. one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (e.g., a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals (gives away) information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.

(transitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

(transitive) To convey by speech; to say.

(transitive) To instruct or inform.

(rare or archaic) To count or enumerate.