tell
verb
[ tɛl ]
• communicate information to someone in spoken or written words.
• "I told her you were coming"
Similar:
inform,
let know,
notify,
apprise,
make aware,
mention something to,
acquaint with,
advise,
put in the picture,
brief,
fill in,
break the news to,
alert,
warn,
forewarn,
clue in,
speak,
utter,
say,
voice,
state,
declare,
communicate,
make known,
impart,
divulge,
announce,
proclaim,
broadcast,
relate,
recount,
narrate,
give an account of,
set forth,
unfold,
retail,
report,
chronicle,
recite,
rehearse,
describe,
portray,
sketch,
delineate,
depict,
paint,
weave,
spin,
• decide or determine correctly or with certainty.
• "you can tell they're in love"
Similar:
ascertain,
decide,
determine,
work out,
make out,
deduce,
discern,
perceive,
see,
identify,
recognize,
understand,
comprehend,
be sure,
be certain,
figure out,
get a fix on,
suss out,
• count (the members of a group).
• "the shepherd had told all his sheep"
tell
noun
• (especially in poker) an unconscious action that is thought to betray an attempted deception.
Origin:
Old English tellan ‘relate, count, estimate’, of Germanic origin; related to German zählen ‘reckon, count’, erzählen ‘recount, relate’, also to tale.
tell
noun
• (in the Middle East) an artificial mound formed by the accumulated remains of ancient settlements.
Origin:
mid 19th century: from Arabic tall ‘hillock’.
