See tell on Wiktionary
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0", "word": "go tell your mother she wants you" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "hear tell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "hiss-and-tell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "I can tell you" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "I'll tell you" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "I'll tell you what" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "I'm telling a lie" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "I tell a lie" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "I'm telling you" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "I tell you" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "keep telling yourself that" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "kiss-and-tell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "kiss and tell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "live to tell the tale" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "mistell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "no-tell hotel" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "no-tell motel" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "now you tell me" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "only time will tell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "piss on someone's leg and tell them it's raining" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "pray tell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "show-and-tell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "show and tell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "show, don't tell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tattle tell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell against" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell-all" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell all" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell apart" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "teller" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell fortunes" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "telling" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell it like it is" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell its own story" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell its own tale" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell it to Sweeney" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell it to the hand" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell it to the judge" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell it to the marines" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell me about it" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell me another one" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell me something I don't know" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell noses" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell of" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell off" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell on" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell someone where to get off" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell someone where to shove it" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell-tale compass" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell tales" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell tales out of school" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "telltale" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell-tale" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell-tale-tit" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell the difference" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell the time" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell the truth" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell-troth" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell-truth" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell us another" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell us another one" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell volumes" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell-worthy" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell you the truth" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "tell you what" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "time alone will tell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "time will tell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "to tell the truth" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "to tell you the truth" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "truth to tell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "untell" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "who are you telling" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "you can't tell a book by its cover" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "you're telling me" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "you tell me" } ], "etymology_number": 1, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "tellen", "t": "to count, tell" }, "expansion": "Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”)", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "tellan", "t": "to count, tell" }, "expansion": "Old English tellan (“to count, tell”)", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*talljan" }, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *talljan", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*taljaną" }, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *taljaną", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*talą" }, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *talą", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ine-pro", "3": "*dol-", "t": "calculation, fraud" }, "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”)", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "stq", "2": "tälle", "t": "to say; tell" }, "expansion": "Saterland Frisian tälle (“to say; tell”)", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "fy", "2": "telle", "t": "to count" }, "expansion": "West Frisian telle (“to count”)", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "fy", "2": "fertelle", "t": "to tell, narrate" }, "expansion": "West Frisian fertelle (“to tell, narrate”)", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "nl", "2": "tellen", "t": "to count" }, "expansion": "Dutch tellen (“to count”)", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "nl", "2": "vertellen", "t": "to tell" }, "expansion": "Dutch vertellen (“to tell”)", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "nds", "2": "tellen", "t": "to count" }, "expansion": "Low German tellen (“to count”)", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "de", "2": "zählen" }, "expansion": "German zählen", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "fo", "2": "telja" }, "expansion": "Faroese telja", "name": "cog" } ], "etymology_text": "From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *talą, *talǭ (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”).\nCognate with Saterland Frisian tälle (“to say; tell”), West Frisian telle (“to count”), West Frisian fertelle (“to tell, narrate”), Dutch tellen (“to count”) and Dutch vertellen (“to tell”), Low German tellen (“to count”), German zählen, Faroese telja. More at tale.", "forms": [ { "form": "tells", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "telling", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "told", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "told", "tags": [ "past" ] }, { "form": "telled", "tags": [ "dialectal", "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "telled", "tags": [ "dialectal", "past" ] }, { "form": "no-table-tags", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "table-tags" ] }, { "form": "en-conj", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "inflection-template" ] }, { "form": "tell", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "infinitive" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "tells", "2": "telling", "3": "told", "past2": "telled", "past2_qual": "dialectal or nonstandard" }, "expansion": "tell (third-person singular simple present tells, present participle telling, simple past and past participle told or (dialectal or nonstandard) telled)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "inflection_templates": [ { "args": { "old": "1", "past": "told", "past_2sg_old": "toldest" }, "name": "en-conj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:", "text": "And in his lap a masse of coyne he told,\n And turned vpsidowne, to feede his eye\n A couetous desire with his huge threasury.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:", "text": "Well fare the Arabians, who so richly pay\nThe things they traffic for with wedge of gold,\nWhereof a man may easily in a day\nTell that which may maintain him all his life.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1875, Hugh MacMillan, The Sunday Magazine:", "text": "Only He who made them can tell the number of the stars, and mark the place of each in the order of the one great dominant spiral.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To count, reckon, or enumerate." ], "id": "en-tell-en-verb-rSeosemF", "links": [ [ "count", "count" ], [ "reckon", "reckon" ], [ "enumerate", "enumerate" ] ], "qualifier": "archaic outside of idioms", "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive, archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate." ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "68 7 2 3 0 4 5 3 1 3 2 3", "sense": "enumerate", "word": "count" } ], "tags": [ "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "6 2 5 10 16 2 16 2 3 15 2 4 2 4 1 2 8", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Talking", "orig": "en:Talking", "parents": [ "Human behaviour", "Language", "Human", "Communication", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "I want to tell a story; I want to tell you a story.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:", "text": "“[…]Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To narrate, to recount." ], "id": "en-tell-en-verb-nLNuuO-B", "links": [ [ "narrate", "narrate" ], [ "recount", "recount" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive, ditransitive) To narrate, to recount." ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "2 64 1 2 7 3 4 2 2 1 4 6", "sense": "narrate", "word": "narrate" }, { "_dis1": "2 64 1 2 7 3 4 2 2 1 4 6", "sense": "narrate", "word": "recount" }, { "_dis1": "2 64 1 2 7 3 4 2 2 1 4 6", "sense": "narrate", "word": "relate" } ], "tags": [ "ditransitive", "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "Finally, someone told him the truth. He seems to like to tell lies.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:", "text": "I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)", "text": "Tell her you’re here.\nAudio (US): (file)" } ], "glosses": [ "To convey by speech; to say." ], "id": "en-tell-en-verb-pA1gDOqL", "links": [ [ "convey", "convey" ], [ "speech", "speech" ], [ "say", "say" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say." ], "tags": [ "ditransitive", "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "Please tell me how to do it.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis xii:18:", "text": "Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:", "text": "But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To instruct or inform." ], "id": "en-tell-en-verb-MEcIQykg", "links": [ [ "instruct", "instruct" ], [ "inform", "inform" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To instruct or inform." ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "1 1 0 71 3 1 2 1 0 0 17 2", "sense": "to instruct or inform", "word": "advise" } ], "tags": [ "transitive" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "2 3 1 56 13 2 3 3 1 2 12 2", "code": "ba", "lang": "Bashkir", "roman": "teyew", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "тейеү" }, { "_dis1": "2 3 1 56 13 2 3 3 1 2 12 2", "code": "ba", "lang": "Bashkir", "roman": "quşıw", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "ҡушыу" }, { "_dis1": "2 3 1 56 13 2 3 3 1 2 12 2", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "ukázvam", "sense": "to instruct", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "ука́звам" }, { "_dis1": "2 3 1 56 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{ "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "unterscheiden" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "erkennen" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "sagen" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "katalavaíno", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "καταλαβαίνω" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "hevín", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "הבין" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "hivdíl", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "הבדיל" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "megmond" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "notare" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "alt": "わかる", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "wakaru", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "分かる" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "alt": "わかる", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "wakaru", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "判る" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "razlikuva", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "разликува" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "ang", "lang": "Old English", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "tōcnāwan" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "dizer" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "notar" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "različátʹ", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "различа́ть" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "različítʹ", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "различи́ть" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "otličátʹ", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "отлича́ть" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "otličítʹ", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "отличи́ть" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "povedať" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "distinguir" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "notar" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "darse cuenta" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "discerner" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "es", "english": "se", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "percatar" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "saber" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "säga" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "avgöra" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "vidriznjáty", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "відрізня́ти" }, { "_dis1": "1 1 0 1 0 89 2 1 1 1 1 2", "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "vidriznýty", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "відрізни́ти" } ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "Time will tell what became of him.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "To reveal." ], "id": "en-tell-en-verb-1ThA74cW", "links": [ [ "reveal", "reveal" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To reveal." ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "1 2 1 3 0 2 59 8 1 1 2 21", "sense": "reveal", "word": "disclose" } ], "tags": [ "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1990, Stephen Coonts, Under Siege, 1991 Pocket Books edition, p.409", "text": "Cherry looks old, Mergenthaler told himself. His age is telling. Querulous — that's the word. He's become a whining, querulous old man absorbed with trivialities." } ], "glosses": [ "To be revealed." ], "id": "en-tell-en-verb-VduNM-f7", "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive) To be revealed." ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty:", "text": "Opinion ought [… to give] merited honour to every one, whatever opinion he may hold[…]keeping nothing back which tells, or can be supposed to tell, in their favour.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1960 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 212:", "text": "[...] the 4 miles at 1 in 180 up to Sanquhar were mounted with no greater fall in speed than from 65 to 59 m.p.h., after which, possibly as a result of easing the engine or because the strain on steam supply was beginning to tell, the final 3½ miles up at 1 in 200 up to milepost 59½ were surmounted at a minimum of 49½ m.p.h.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:", "text": "But England's superior fitness told in the second half, with Delon Armitage, Manu Tuilagi and Chris Ashton (two) going over for tries to secure a bonus-point win.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated." ], "id": "en-tell-en-verb-8-n4-vu3", "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated." ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ] }, { "categories": [], "glosses": [ "To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer." ], "id": "en-tell-en-verb-BA0Pe3az", "links": [ [ "bead", "bead" ], [ "prayer", "prayer" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer." ], "tags": [ "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "I saw you steal those sweets! I'm telling!", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing." ], "id": "en-tell-en-verb-3-ysyVjH", "links": [ [ "childish", "childish" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "tell on" }, { "_dis1": "1 3 1 33 2 1 6 1 1 1 47 4", "sense": "inform someone in authority", "word": "grass up" } ], "tags": [ "childish", "intransitive" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "1 3 1 32 2 1 3 1 1 1 51 4", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to inform someone in authority", "word": "petzen" } ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement — contrasted with show." ], "id": "en-tell-en-verb-TkIInru8", "links": [ [ "prose", "prose" ], [ "outright", "outright" ], [ "expository", "expository" ], [ "statement", "statement" ], [ "show", "show" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(authorship, intransitive) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement — contrasted with show." ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ], "topics": [ "authorship", "broadcasting", "communications", "film", "journalism", "literature", "media", "publishing", "television", "writing" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "af", "lang": "Afrikaans", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "sê" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "af", "lang": "Afrikaans", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "vertel" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "sq", "lang": "Albanian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "them" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "sq", "lang": "Albanian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "rrëfej" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "ase", "lang": "American Sign Language", "note": "1@Chin-PalmBack 1@FromChin-PalmUp", "sense": "to pass information" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "ʔaḵbara", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "أَخْبَرَ" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "qāla", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "قَالَ" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "arz", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "ʔāl", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Egyptian-Arabic" ], "word": "قال" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "acw", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "gāl", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Hijazi-Arabic" ], "word": "قال" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "acw", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "ḥakka", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Hijazi-Arabic" ], "word": "حَكَّى" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "asel", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ասել" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "patmel", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "պատմել" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "as", "lang": "Assamese", "roman": "ko", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ক" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "az", "lang": "Azerbaijani", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "demək" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "ba", "lang": "Bashkir", "roman": "əytew", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "әйтеү" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "be", "lang": "Belarusian", "roman": "havarýcʹ", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "гавары́ць" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "be", "lang": "Belarusian", "roman": "kazácʹ", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "каза́ць" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "be", "lang": "Belarusian", "roman": "skazácʹ", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "сказа́ць" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "bn", "lang": "Bengali", "roman": "bola", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "বলা" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "razkázvam", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "разка́звам" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "my", "lang": "Burmese", "roman": "prau:", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ပြော" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "dir" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "explicar" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "gàosu", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "告訴 /告诉" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "shuō", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "說 /说" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "kw", "lang": "Cornish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "leverel" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "kw", "lang": "Cornish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "lawl" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "říci" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "hovořit" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "říkat" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "fortælle" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "sige" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "vertellen" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "zeggen" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "egl", "lang": "Emilian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "dîr" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "et", "lang": "Estonian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ütlema" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "kertoa" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "dire" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "tkma", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "თქმა" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "sagen" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "erzählen" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "mitteilen" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "got", "lang": "Gothic", "roman": "spillōn", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌻𐌻𐍉𐌽" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "léo", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "λέω" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "grc", "lang": "Ancient Greek", "roman": "légō", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "λέγω" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "higíd", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "הִגִּיד" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "amár", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "אָמַר" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "kahnā", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "कहना" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "elmond" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "segja" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "id", "lang": "Indonesian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "kata" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "abair le" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "dire" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "raccontare" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "alt": "おしえる", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "oshieru", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "教える" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "alt": "いう, iu, ゆう, yuu", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "言う" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "alt": "のべる", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "noberu", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "述べる" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "ossharu", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "honorific" ], "word": "おっしゃる" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "alt": "もうす", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "mōsu", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "humble" ], "word": "申す" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "alt": "もうしあげる", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "mōshiageru", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "humble" ], "word": "申し上げる" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "jv", "lang": "Javanese", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "kandha" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "xbr", "lang": "Kambera", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "paní" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "ks", "lang": "Kashmiri", "roman": "vanun", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "وَنُن" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "ks", "lang": "Kashmiri", "roman": "dapun", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "دَپُن" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "ks", "lang": "Kashmiri", "roman": "bōznāvun", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "بوزناوُن" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "csb", "lang": "Kashubian", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "rzec" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "kk", "lang": "Kazakh", "roman": "aitu", "sense": "to pass 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"to pass information", "word": "gotin" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "ky", "lang": "Kyrgyz", "roman": "aytuu", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "айтуу" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "lo", "lang": "Lao", "roman": "bǭk", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ບອກ" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "lo", "lang": "Lao", "roman": "kāo", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ກ່າວ" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "narrō" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "memoro" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "lv", "lang": "Latvian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "stāstīt" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", "code": "lt", "lang": "Lithuanian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "sakyti" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 64", 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(“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *talą, *talǭ (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”).\nCognate with Saterland Frisian tälle (“to say; tell”), West Frisian telle (“to count”), West Frisian fertelle (“to tell, narrate”), Dutch tellen (“to count”) and Dutch vertellen (“to tell”), Low German tellen (“to count”), German zählen, Faroese telja. 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Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To narrate, to recount." ], "links": [ [ "narrate", "narrate" ], [ "recount", "recount" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive, ditransitive) To narrate, to recount." ], "tags": [ "ditransitive", "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "English ditransitive verbs", "English terms with audio pronunciation", "English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples", "English transitive verbs" ], "examples": [ { "text": "Finally, someone told him the truth. He seems to like to tell lies.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:", "text": "I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. 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We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To instruct or inform." ], "links": [ [ "instruct", "instruct" ], [ "inform", "inform" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To instruct or inform." ], "tags": [ "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples", "English transitive verbs", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "text": "Tell him to go away.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1909, H. G. Wells, Ann Veronica:", "text": "She said she hoped she had not distressed him by the course she had felt obliged to take, and he told her not to be a fool.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012 October 25, John Noble Wilford, “Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Dies at 82”, in New York Times:", "text": "Stability was restored, but once the re-entry propulsion was activated, the crew was told to prepare to come home before the end of their only day in orbit.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948:", "text": "The driver remained at his post, while telling fireman Jim Nightall to get down on the track and run back to uncouple the burning wagon from the rest.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To order; to direct, to say to someone." ], "links": [ [ "order", "order" ], [ "direct", "direct" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone." ], "tags": [ "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "English intransitive verbs", "English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples", "English transitive verbs" ], "examples": [ { "text": "Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance? 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His age is telling. Querulous — that's the word. He's become a whining, querulous old man absorbed with trivialities." } ], "glosses": [ "To be revealed." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive) To be revealed." ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "English intransitive verbs", "English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "text": "Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty:", "text": "Opinion ought [… to give] merited honour to every one, whatever opinion he may hold[…]keeping nothing back which tells, or can be supposed to tell, in their favour.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1960 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 212:", "text": "[...] the 4 miles at 1 in 180 up to Sanquhar were mounted with no greater fall in speed than from 65 to 59 m.p.h., after which, possibly as a result of easing the engine or because the strain on steam supply was beginning to tell, the final 3½ miles up at 1 in 200 up to milepost 59½ were surmounted at a minimum of 49½ m.p.h.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:", "text": "But England's superior fitness told in the second half, with Delon Armitage, Manu Tuilagi and Chris Ashton (two) going over for tries to secure a bonus-point win.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated." ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "English transitive verbs" ], "glosses": [ "To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer." ], "links": [ [ "bead", "bead" ], [ "prayer", "prayer" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer." ], "tags": [ "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "English childish terms", "English intransitive verbs", "English terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "text": "I saw you steal those sweets! 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"rhymes": "-ɛl" } ], "synonyms": [ { "sense": "enumerate", "word": "count" }, { "word": "number" }, { "word": "count" }, { "sense": "narrate", "word": "narrate" }, { "sense": "narrate", "word": "recount" }, { "sense": "narrate", "word": "relate" }, { "sense": "to instruct or inform", "word": "advise" }, { "word": "apprise" }, { "sense": "reveal", "word": "disclose" }, { "word": "make known" }, { "sense": "inform someone in authority", "word": "grass up" }, { "word": "snitch" }, { "word": "tattle" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "af", "lang": "Afrikaans", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "sê" }, { "code": "af", "lang": "Afrikaans", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "vertel" }, { "code": "sq", "lang": "Albanian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "them" }, { "code": "sq", "lang": "Albanian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "rrëfej" }, { "code": "ase", "lang": "American Sign Language", "note": "1@Chin-PalmBack 1@FromChin-PalmUp", "sense": "to pass information" }, { "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "ʔaḵbara", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "أَخْبَرَ" }, { "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "qāla", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "قَالَ" }, { "code": "arz", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "ʔāl", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Egyptian-Arabic" ], "word": "قال" }, { "code": "acw", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "gāl", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Hijazi-Arabic" ], "word": "قال" }, { "code": "acw", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "ḥakka", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Hijazi-Arabic" ], "word": "حَكَّى" }, { "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "asel", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ասել" }, { "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "patmel", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "պատմել" }, { "code": "as", "lang": "Assamese", "roman": "ko", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ক" }, { "code": "az", "lang": "Azerbaijani", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "demək" }, { "code": "ba", "lang": "Bashkir", "roman": "əytew", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "әйтеү" }, { "code": "be", "lang": "Belarusian", "roman": "havarýcʹ", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "гавары́ць" }, { "code": "be", "lang": "Belarusian", "roman": "kazácʹ", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "каза́ць" }, { "code": "be", "lang": "Belarusian", "roman": "skazácʹ", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "сказа́ць" }, { "code": "bn", "lang": "Bengali", "roman": "bola", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "বলা" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "razkázvam", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "разка́звам" }, { "code": "my", "lang": "Burmese", "roman": "prau:", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ပြော" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "dir" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "explicar" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "gàosu", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "告訴 /告诉" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "shuō", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "說 /说" }, { "code": "kw", "lang": "Cornish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "leverel" }, { "code": "kw", "lang": "Cornish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "lawl" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "říci" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "hovořit" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "říkat" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "fortælle" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "sige" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "vertellen" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "zeggen" }, { "code": "egl", "lang": "Emilian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "dîr" }, { "code": "et", "lang": "Estonian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ütlema" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "kertoa" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "dire" }, { "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "tkma", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "თქმა" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "sagen" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "erzählen" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "mitteilen" }, { "code": "got", "lang": "Gothic", "roman": "spillōn", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌻𐌻𐍉𐌽" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "léo", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "λέω" }, { "code": "grc", "lang": "Ancient Greek", "roman": "légō", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "λέγω" }, { "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "higíd", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "הִגִּיד" }, { "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "amár", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "אָמַר" }, { "code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "kahnā", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "कहना" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "elmond" }, { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "segja" }, { "code": "id", "lang": "Indonesian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "kata" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "abair le" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "dire" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "raccontare" }, { "alt": "おしえる", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "oshieru", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "教える" }, { "alt": "いう, iu, ゆう, yuu", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "言う" }, { "alt": "のべる", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "noberu", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "述べる" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "ossharu", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "honorific" ], "word": "おっしゃる" }, { "alt": "もうす", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "mōsu", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "humble" ], "word": "申す" }, { "alt": "もうしあげる", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "mōshiageru", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "humble" ], "word": "申し上げる" }, { "code": "jv", "lang": "Javanese", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "kandha" }, { "code": "xbr", "lang": "Kambera", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "paní" }, { "code": "ks", "lang": "Kashmiri", "roman": "vanun", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "وَنُن" }, { "code": "ks", "lang": "Kashmiri", "roman": "dapun", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "دَپُن" }, { "code": "ks", "lang": "Kashmiri", "roman": "bōznāvun", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "بوزناوُن" }, { "code": "csb", "lang": "Kashubian", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "rzec" }, { "code": "kk", "lang": "Kazakh", "roman": "aitu", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "айту" }, { "code": "kk", "lang": "Kazakh", "roman": "deu", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "деу" }, { "code": "km", "lang": "Khmer", "roman": "niyiəy", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "និយាយ" }, { "code": "km", "lang": "Khmer", "roman": "thaa", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ថា" }, { "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "malhada", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "말하다" }, { "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "malsseumhada", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "honorific" ], "word": "말씀하다" }, { "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "allida", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "알리다" }, { "code": "kmr", "lang": "Northern Kurdish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "gotin" }, { "code": "ky", "lang": "Kyrgyz", "roman": "aytuu", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "айтуу" }, { "code": "lo", "lang": "Lao", "roman": "bǭk", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ບອກ" }, { "code": "lo", "lang": "Lao", "roman": "kāo", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ກ່າວ" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "narrō" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "memoro" }, { "code": "lv", "lang": "Latvian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "stāstīt" }, { "code": "lt", "lang": "Lithuanian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "sakyti" }, { "code": "lt", "lang": "Lithuanian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "pasakyti" }, { "code": "lmo", "lang": "Lombard", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "dì" }, { "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "kažuva", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "кажува" }, { "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "kaže", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "каже" }, { "code": "ms", "lang": "Malay", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "kata" }, { "code": "mnc", "lang": "Manchu", "roman": "hendumbi", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ᡥᡝᠨᡩᡠᠮᠪᡳ" }, { "code": "mr", "lang": "Marathi", "roman": "sāṅgṇe", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "सांगणे" }, { "code": "gun", "lang": "Mbyá Guaraní", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "mombe'u" }, { "code": "mn", "lang": "Mongolian", "roman": "xelex", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "хэлэх" }, { "code": "ne", "lang": "Nepali", "roman": "bhannu", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "भन्नु" }, { "code": "nrf", "lang": "Norman", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "dithe" }, { "code": "se", "lang": "Northern Sami", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "muitalit" }, { "code": "se", "lang": "Northern Sami", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "máinnastit" }, { "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "fortelle" }, { "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "si" }, { "code": "cu", "lang": "Church Slavic", "roman": "rešti", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Cyrillic" ], "word": "рещи" }, { "code": "cu", "lang": "Church Slavic", "roman": "govoriti", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Cyrillic", "imperfective" ], "word": "говорити" }, { "code": "ang", "lang": "Old English", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "secgan" }, { "code": "ps", "lang": "Pashto", "roman": "ezhārawᶕl", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "اظهارول" }, { "code": "fa", "lang": "Persian", "roman": "goftan", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "گُفْتَن" }, { "code": "pih", "lang": "Pitcairn-Norfolk", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "tull" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "powiedzieć" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "mówić" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "rzec" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "contar" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "dizer" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "spune" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "zice" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "govorítʹ", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "говори́ть" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "skazátʹ", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "сказа́ть" }, { "code": "sa", "lang": "Sanskrit", "roman": "gadati", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "गदति" }, { "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "innis" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Cyrillic", "perfective" ], "word": "ре̏ћи" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Cyrillic", "imperfective" ], "word": "гово̀рити" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Cyrillic", "perfective" ], "word": "ка́зати" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Roman", "perfective" ], "word": "rȅći" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Roman", "imperfective" ], "word": "govòriti" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "Roman", 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"th", "lang": "Thai", "roman": "pûut", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "พูด" }, { "code": "txb", "lang": "Tocharian B", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "we-" }, { "code": "txb", "lang": "Tocharian B", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "āks-" }, { "code": "tr", "lang": "Turkish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "söylemek" }, { "code": "tr", "lang": "Turkish", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "demek" }, { "code": "tk", "lang": "Turkmen", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "aýtmak" }, { "code": "tk", "lang": "Turkmen", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "diýmek" }, { "code": "tyz", "lang": "Tày", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "cạ" }, { "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "rozpovidáty", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "розповіда́ти" }, { "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "hovorýty", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "говори́ти" }, { "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "kazáty", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "каза́ти" }, { "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "skazáty", "sense": "to pass information", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "сказа́ти" }, { "code": "ur", "lang": "Urdu", "roman": "kahnā", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "کَہْنا" }, { "code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "dëmek", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "دېمەك" }, { "code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "ëytmaq", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "ئېيتماق" }, { "code": "uz", "lang": "Uzbek", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "gapirmoq" }, { "code": "uz", "lang": "Uzbek", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "demoq" }, { "code": "uz", "lang": "Uzbek", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "aytmoq" }, { "code": "vi", "lang": "Vietnamese", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "kể" }, { "code": "vi", "lang": "Vietnamese", "sense": "to pass information", "word": "bảo" }, { 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"sense": "to instruct", "word": "tilsige" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "instruere" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "instrueren" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "käskeä" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "määrätä" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "dire" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "sagen" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "erklären" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "léo", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "λέω" }, { "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "higíd", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "הִגִּיד" }, { "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "amár", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "אָמַר" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "megmond" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "abair le" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "insegnare" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "doceo" }, { "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "kažuva", "sense": "to instruct", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "кажува" }, { "code": "mhn", "lang": "Mòcheno", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "learnen" }, { "code": "nrf", "lang": "Norman", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "dithe" }, { "code": "se", "lang": "Northern Sami", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "bagadallat" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "mandar" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "dizer" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "govorítʹ", "sense": "to instruct", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "говори́ть" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "skazátʹ", "sense": "to instruct", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "сказа́ть" }, { "code": "ru", "english": "order", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "prikazátʹ", "sense": "to instruct", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "приказа́ть" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "povedať" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "decir" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "säga åt" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "säga till" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "to instruct", "word": "tala om" }, { "code": "ba", "lang": "Bashkir", "roman": "belew", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "белеү" }, { "code": "ba", "lang": "Bashkir", "roman": "kürew", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "күреү" }, { "code": "ba", "lang": "Bashkir", "roman": "ayırıw", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "айырыу" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "različavam", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "различавам" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "conèixer" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "notar" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "adonar-se" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "afsige" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "afgøre" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "vertellen" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "zeggen" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "sanoa" }, { 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"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "različítʹ", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "различи́ть" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "otličátʹ", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "отлича́ть" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "otličítʹ", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "отличи́ть" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "povedať" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "distinguir" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "notar" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "to discern, notice, identify or distinguish", "word": "darse cuenta" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", 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