Definition of Tell

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Definition of Tell

Tell

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.

To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.

To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform.

To order; to request; to command.

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.

To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate.

To give an account; to make report.

To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells.

That which is told; tale; account.

A hill or mound.

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Tell Quotations

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Ronald Reagan

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain

When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
Mark Twain

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
Joel Osteen

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
Joel Osteen

Tell Translations

tell in Dutch is zeggen, opgeven
tell in French is enjoindre, dire, charger, racontez, racontons
tell in Italian is narrare
tell in Latin is dico, loquor, fero tuli latum, propono
tell in Portuguese is diga, dizer
tell in Spanish is contar, decir

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