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telltale
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Word definitions for telltale in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also tell-tale , "discloser of secrets," 1540s, from tell (v.) + tale . As an adjective from 1590s. Phrase tell a tale "relate a false or exaggerated story" is from late 13c.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tattler \Tat"tler\, n. One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales. --Jer. Taylor. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus . Note: The common American species are the greater tattler, ...
Usage examples of telltale.
Set in the backmost wall was a control board and piloting screens, various telltales glowing amber among the mica-washed stones.
Aboard the Theodore Knight, the crew and officers cheered their destruction of the Japanese submarine as they watched the telltale slick of black oil and fuel pool on the surface like a death cloud above the sunken boat.
T-shirt was sleeveless, faint telltales of Chiba City circuitry traced along her thin arms.
A telltale tickle at the edge of my mind pushed me back behind a towering midfeather which held up the groined ceiling.
Telltales flickered on the temples of the shades, too, indicating that they were tuned to a narrowcast from one or more of the wallboards.
I ruffled quickly through the thick mass of auburn and cinnamon, looking for the telltale whitish nits, then stepped back, bending my own head.
As they passed through the entrance, Roads noted the tingling, skin-crawling sensation of security scanners, electromagnetic fingers that reached through their clothes to search for the telltale shapes of concealed weapons.
He progressed along the line of sea fans, watching for the telltale piles of shells, which marked octopi dwellings.
But the closer data are packed, the harder they are to erase and the more chance that telltale secrets will remain behind on reused media.
If there was something after Deke, but it was willing to take its time and use a long-term plan, the smartest move would be to leave no telltales behind.
Dark telltales of turned soil marred the ground, betraying where German tanks, artillery, trucks, and tractors churned over the Soviet plain.
What was new was that the new Star Destroyers lacked the telltale projector domes of most Interdictor ships.
If Earthmen Marines were on any of the islets he could see, he should be able to discern at least a few of the telltale hollows their invisible bodies made in the grass.
In the distance, Uhura could hear the telltale hiss of a microfoam mattress decompacting as weight was removed from it.
Sure, there were little telltale signs like the Soviets marching through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mongolia, Turkmenia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirgizia, Poland, Moldavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.