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NOUN | 1 | Tell, William Tell | A Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer |
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VERB | 1 | tell, state, say | Express in words |
2 | tell | Let something be known | |
3 | tell, narrate, recount, recite | Narrate or give a detailed account of | |
4 | tell, order, enjoin, say | Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | |
5 | tell | Discern or comprehend | |
6 | tell, assure | Inform positively and with certainty and confidence | |
7 | tell, evidence | Give evidence | |
8 | tell, distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell apart | Mark as different |
Sounds | teh'l |
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Rhymes | Aix-la-Chapelle, barbell, bel / Bel, and 89 more rhymes in ehl at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | 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). |
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Synonyms | William Tell |
Broader | archer, bowman |
Meaning | Express in words. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Model | They tell that there was a traffic accident |
Examples | "tell me what is bothering you" |
Synonyms | state, say |
Narrower | present, represent, lay out; misstate; answer, reply, respond; precede, preface, premise, introduce; announce, declare; articulate, enunciate, vocalize, vocalise; get out; declare; declare; note, observe, mention, remark; add, append, supply; explain; give; summarize, summarise, sum, sum up |
Broader | express, verbalize, verbalise, utter, give tongue to |
Similar to | say |
Nouns | telling; teller |
Meaning | Let something be known. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Examples | "Tell them that you will be late" |
Narrower | digress, stray, divagate, wander; bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal; disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out; spill, talk; publicize, publicise, air, bare; repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell; propagandize, propagandise; announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald; impart, leave, give, pass on |
Broader | inform |
See also | tell off |
Nouns | tale |
Meaning | Narrate or give a detailed account of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody something; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
Model | They won't tell the story |
Examples | "Tell what happened" |
Synonyms | narrate, recount, recite |
Narrower | relate; crack; yarn; rhapsodize, rhapsodise |
Broader | inform |
Nouns | telling; teller; tale |
Meaning | Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Model | They tell him to write the letter |
Synonyms | order, enjoin, say |
Narrower | direct; instruct; command, require, compel; call, send for; warn |
Broader | request |
Meaning | Discern or comprehend. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Examples | "He could tell that she was unhappy" |
Broader | guess, infer |
Meaning | Inform positively and with certainty and confidence. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody of something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Examples | "I tell you that man is a crook!" |
Synonyms | assure |
Broader | affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear |
Meaning | Give evidence. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Examples | "he was telling on all his former colleague" |
Synonyms | evidence |
Broader | inform |
See also | tell apart |
Nouns | telling |
Meaning | Mark as different. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
Synonyms | distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell apart |
Entails | compare |
Narrower | know; discriminate, know apart; label; label; sex; individualize, individualise; contrast; severalize, severalise; contradistinguish; decouple, dissociate; demarcate; discriminate, separate, single out; stratify |
Broader | identify, place |