Word Finder - tells

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A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.

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That which is told; a tale or account.

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A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.

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(archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.

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All told, there were over a dozen.  Can you tell time on a clock?  He had untold wealth.

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To narrate.

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I want to tell a story;  I want to tell you a story.

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To convey by speech; to say.

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Finally, someone told him the truth.  He seems to like to tell lies.

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To instruct or inform.

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Please tell me how to do it.

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To order; to direct, to say to someone.

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Tell him to go away.

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To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

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Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance?  No, there's no way to tell.

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To reveal.

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Time will tell what became of him.

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To be revealed.

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To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.

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Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.

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To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.

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To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.

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I saw you steal those sweets! I'm going to tell!

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(authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show

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Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.

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A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

She tells me I'm out of the loop.

Nobody tells me anything.

Something tells me she'll be back here soon.

The girl tells an incredible story.

The Bible legend tells us that the absence of labor--idleness--was a condition of the first man's blessedness before the Fall.

I think the compass tells you what kind of soul it is.

Yeah; that's public information, but something tells me that only works if he actually registers; you think?

That sort of tells me his intention wasn't healthy for whoever he found inside.

It tells callers looking for reservations to call after four o'clock.

Yes, he tells me every day in the way he treats me.

At the end of a month, she tells us, her earnings amounted to fifteen francs.

She tells you and it's automatically fact.

Irv Goldman was in charge of their ill-conceived venture while it was running, so their switch board tells me.

Common sense tells us the obvious is usually where the truth rests and the obvious is either Fitzgerald or someone in the Dawkins family.

No one tells Jerome Shipton what to do.

My uncle tells me this is why I must wait until my dear son is six or seven summers.

My cousin tells me I've lost my way in the lessons of my forefathers.

The creature tells me otherwise and cheers me on whenever I take the head of another cursed barbarian.

He tells you he is sorry.

He tells you all the days he is here.

All our intel tells us they're after you for some reason.

When Xander tells the story, it was the Originals that did it.

Something tells me your sex life is pretty vanilla.

In fact, so far as the direct evidence of our senses tells us, matter appears to be indefinitely divisible.

In a preface to a later edition she tells us how the novel came to be written, and, though it anticipates events, this revelation of herself may best be given here.

Besides the crusader and other remains in the village itself, the surrounding country possesses many tells (mounds) covering the sites of ancient cities.

A Latin abridgment of philosophy, dated 1784, tells us that the innate ideas of Descartes are founded on no arguments, and are now universally abandoned.

This tells us that there is still visceral, anti-Tory tactical voting.

Genesis tells how Jacob gained ascendancy over his brother, Esau, by means of his cunning.

Paul tells Timothy do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner.

After you kill the first assassin and Michael Corleone tells you to go to the basement, go foward and make a left.

There is a feedback loop which tells the body how much bile to release into the system.

Lizzie tells Maxine she needs the cash to buy booze from the men.

Avoid placing it near a downstairs window; it tells potential burglars that you have one or more PCs in the house.

The Bible tells us of a Samaritan woman, an Ethiopian eunuch, a gentile centurion.

The Helvetic confession tells us that the right choosing of ministers is by the consent of the church.

My instinct tells me that my head is an organ for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and fore paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills.

My brother knows him, he's dined with him--the present Emperor--more than once in Paris, and tells me he never met a more cunning or subtle diplomatist--you know, a combination of French adroitness and Italian play-acting!

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Pete tells me there's a preacher in Ashley.

Do you always do what Mr. Winston tells you?

He further tells us this pitch was a tone, nearly a tone and a half, higher than a suitable church pitch (Chorton), for which he gives a diagram.

If Plutarch tells us that he superintended the great works of Pericles on the Acropolis, this phrase is very vague.

Though querulous because of his non-preferment, De Quincey tells us that "his lordship was a joyous, jovial, and cordial host."

Tridentum or Trent was in the time of Pliny included in the tenth region of Italy or Venetia, but he tells us that the inhabitants were a Raetian tribe.

The same authority tells us that he was initiated by his father in those field sports, such as hunting and hawking, which formed one of his recreations in after life.

It tells men to " obey reason " and crush passion, or to live " according to nature."

Anselm tells us that a most perfect being must exist, since the perfection which includes existence is manifestly greater than a perfection confined to an object of thought.

In his Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere (p. 264) he distinctly tells us that the law of growing individuality is " the fundamental thought which goes through all forms and degrees of animal development and all single relations.

In 1890 he tells us how a grievous error had been committed in one of the first steps, and pathetically adds, "My spirit in the work was broken, and I have never heartily proceeded with it since."