Crossword clues for telling
telling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tell \Tell\ (t[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Told (t[=o]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Telling.] [AS. tellan, from talu tale, number, speech; akin to D. tellen to count, G. z["a]hlen, OHG. zellen to count, tell, say, Icel. telja, Dan. tale to speak, t[ae]lle to count. See Tale that which is told.]
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To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money. ``An heap of coin he told.''
--Spenser.He telleth the number of the stars.
--Ps. cxlvii. 4.Tell the joints of the body.
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To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.
Of which I shall tell all the array.
--Chaucer.And not a man appears to tell their fate.
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To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
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To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform.
A secret pilgrimage, That you to-day promised to tell me of?
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To order; to request; to command.
He told her not to be frightened.
--Dickens. 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.
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To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate. [Obs.]
I ne told no dainity of her love.
--Chaucer.Note: Tell, though equivalent in some respect to speak and say, has not always the same application. We say, to tell truth or falsehood, to tell a number, to tell the reasons, to tell something or nothing; but we never say, to tell a speech, discourse, or oration, or to tell an argument or a lesson. It is much used in commands; as, tell me the whole story; tell me all you know.
To tell off, to count; to divide.
--Sir W. Scott.Syn: To communicate; impart; reveal; disclose; inform; acquaint; report; repeat; rehearse; recite.
Telling \Tell"ing\, a. Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech. -- Tell"ing*ly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"having effect or force," 1852, past participle adjective from tell (v.).
Wiktionary
1 having force 2 revealing information 3 serving to convince n. 1 The act of narration. 2 The disclosure of information. 3 (context archaic English) counting, numbering. v
(present participle of tell English)
WordNet
adj. disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down" [syn: revealing, telltale(a)]
powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument" [syn: cogent, weighty]
producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture" [syn: impressive]
n. an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable" [syn: relation, recounting]
informing by words [syn: apprisal, notification]
disclosing information or giving evidence about another [syn: tattle, singing]
Usage examples of "telling".
The same day I wrote to the Corticelli, sending her fifty louis, and telling her to come with her mother as soon as possible, and to get someone who knew the way to accompany her.
I was included in the invitation, and Zaira, not understanding French, asked me what we were talking about, and on my telling her expressed a desire to accompany me.
He had been using her as an accomplice while telling her almost nothing.
And then her thoughts went back to the various times of old, when, affrighted by the weather--sounds so mysterious in the night--he had crept into her bed and clung to her, and she had soothed him, and sweetly awed him into stillness and childlike faith, by telling him of the goodness and power of God.
Anywhere with so many Aes Sedai was the last place for Olver, or for anybody, but one bump and instead of telling Birgitte and Aviendha they had no right to take the boy, Setalle Anan would likely hustle him off there herself.
We need to stop telling ourselves the same old anthropocentric bedtime stories.
That is like penning an Antler in a meadow and telling him he may not graze.
The Justice behaved like a Man at my telling him soe, that is to say, cut an Antick Caper and made the Parlour ring with Shouting, then was very meeke and bid me sit, to rest myself, then stand, that I might not crush the Babe, then sit again.
This time, he could not assuage his guilt by telling himself he was trying to marry her for her own good, and because she had no better option.
Mister Gosling breathed deeply, and, telling Barnacle to get a move on with sweeping the hay off the deck, went down below again.
But I will start by telling you that the Barracuda did not go down with all hands some three months ago.
During this time, at a corner of the barricade, Bastide, impassive, was gravely telling a story to Madier de Montjau.
When they saw us, they pointed at Kamlot, and I heard them telling some of the sailors that he was the one who had slain the basto with a single sword thrust, a feat which appeared to force their admiration, as well it might have.
Thus Aziza Begum, telling the stories that made up the blood-stained history of the land.
She had bespoken Stergos in the middle of the night, telling him that conditions were fair for the invaders to proceed, then gone back to bed.