Recountnoun
Narration, account, description, rendering
Tellverb
(transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
‘All told, there were over a dozen.’; ‘Can you tell time on a clock?’; ‘He had untold wealth.’;
Recountnoun
A counting again, as of votes.
Tellverb
(transitive) To narrate.
‘I want to tell a story;’; ‘I want to tell you a story.’;
Recountverb
To tell; narrate; to relate in detail
‘The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.’;
Tellverb
(transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
‘Finally, someone told him the truth.’; ‘He seems to like to tell lies.’;
Recountverb
(dated) To rehearse; to enumerate.
‘to recount one's blessings’;
Tellverb
(transitive) To instruct or inform.
‘Please tell me how to do it.’;
Recountverb
To count again.
Tellverb
(transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
‘Tell him to go away.’;
Recountverb
To count or reckon again.
Tellverb
(intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
‘Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance?’; ‘No, there's no way to tell.’;
Recountverb
To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings.
‘To all his angels, who, with true applause,Recount his praises.’;
Tellverb
(transitive) To reveal.
‘Time will tell what became of him.’;
Recountnoun
A counting again, as of votes.
Tellverb
(intransitive) To be revealed.
Recountnoun
an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election
Tellverb
(intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
‘Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.’;
Recountverb
narrate or give a detailed account of;
‘Tell what happened’; ‘The father told a story to his child’;
Tellverb
To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
Recountverb
count again;
‘We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made’;
Tellverb
To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
‘I saw you steal those sweets! I'm going to tell!’;
Tellverb
To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show
‘Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.’;
Tellnoun
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.
Tellnoun
(archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
Tellnoun
(internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
Tellnoun
(archaeology) A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
Tellverb
To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.
‘He telleth the number of the stars.’; ‘Tell the joints of the body.’;
Tellverb
To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.
‘Of which I shall tell all the array.’; ‘And not a man appears to tell their fate.’;
Tellverb
To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
‘Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?’;
Tellverb
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?’;
Tellverb
To order; to request; to command.
‘He told her not to be frightened.’;
Tellverb
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.
Tellverb
To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate.
‘I ne told no dainity of her love.’;
Tellverb
To give an account; to make report.
‘That I may publish with the voice of thankgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.’;
Tellverb
To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells.
‘Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David.’;
Tellnoun
That which is told; tale; account.
‘I am at the end of my tell.’;
Tellnoun
A hill or mound.
Tellnoun
a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)
Tellverb
express in words;
‘He said that he wanted to marry her’; ‘tell me what is bothering you’; ‘state your opinion’; ‘state your name’;
Tellverb
let something be known;
‘Tell them that you will be late’;
Tellverb
narrate or give a detailed account of;
‘Tell what happened’; ‘The father told a story to his child’;
Tellverb
give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority;
‘I said to him to go home’; ‘She ordered him to do the shopping’; ‘The mother told the child to get dressed’;
Tellverb
discern or comprehend;
‘He could tell that she was unhappy’;
Tellverb
inform positively and with certainty and confidence;
‘I tell you that man is a crook!’;
Tellverb
give evidence;
‘he was telling on all his former colleague’;
Tellverb
mark as different;
‘We distinguish several kinds of maple’;
Tellverb
communicate information to someone in spoken or written words
‘we must be told the facts’; ‘‘We have nothing in common,’ she told him’; ‘he's telling the truth’; ‘I told her you were coming’;
Tellverb
order or advise someone to do something
‘tell him to go away’;
Tellverb
relate (a story)
‘he tried to make the children laugh by telling jokes’; ‘tell me the story again’;
Tellverb
reveal (information) to someone in a non-verbal way
‘the smile on her face told him everything’; ‘the figures tell a different story’;
Tellverb
divulge confidential or private information
‘promise you won't tell’;
Tellverb
inform someone of the misdemeanours of
‘friends don't tell on each other’;
Tellverb
decide or determine correctly or with certainty
‘I couldn't tell if he believed me’; ‘you can tell they're in love’;
Tellverb
perceive (the difference between one person or thing and another)
‘I can't tell the difference between margarine and butter’;
Tellverb
(of an experience or period of time) have a noticeable, typically harmful, effect on someone
‘the strain of supporting the family was beginning to tell on him’;
Tellverb
(of a particular factor) play a part in the success or otherwise of someone or something
‘lack of fitness told against him on his first run of the season’;
Tellverb
count (the members of a group)
‘the shepherd had told all his sheep’;
Tellnoun
(especially in poker) an unconscious action that is thought to betray an attempted deception.
Tellnoun
(in the Middle East) an artificial mound formed by the accumulated remains of ancient settlements.
