See telltale on Wiktionary
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"ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 183:",
"text": "Your husband is at hand; I heare his Trumpet, / We are not tell-tales, Madam; feare you not.",
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"ref": "1846, Herman Melville, Typee:",
"text": "There were some ill-natured people —tell-tales—it seemed, in Tamai; and hence there was a deal of mystery about getting up the dance.",
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"ref": "1904, Jack London, The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:",
"text": "Louis tells me that the gossip of the sailors finds its way aft, and that two of the telltales have been badly beaten by their mates.",
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"ref": "2008, Fleur Yano, Collected Writings of Flora Belle Jan, page 112:",
"text": "The Chinese girls who saw me yesterday are telltales. I'd better wait till dark.",
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"ref": "2011, Elizabeth Grahamslaw, A Parents' Guide To Primary School:",
"text": "Try to teach your child that there's a time to intervene and a time to mind your own business. Nobody loves a telltale.",
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"ref": "1893, “Case No. 2: Phillips vs. The Railroad Co.”, in The Counsellor: The New York Law School Law Journal, page 63:",
"text": "A railroad company, which has properly erected a “telltale,” or signal board, to give warning of the approach of a train to a bridge and which lights the place at night by an electric light, is not responsible for injury caused at night by the “telltale” to a brakeman who had been passing under it at regular intervals for five weeks, though when injured he was standing upon a new car higher than those before used, and though he ad received no warning from the company as to the danger of standing upon such a car while passing under the \"telltale\".",
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"ref": "1901, National Fire Protection Association, Proceedings - Volume 5, page 127:",
"text": "A float telltale to be provided which shall connect with indicator on first floor by a small chain run through 1-2 inch pipe and over pulleys well guarded against the weather.",
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"ref": "1960 November, David Morgan, “\"Piggyback\"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684:",
"text": "For example, when trailers containing new automobiles were first piggybacked two areas of potential damage became evident: (1) diesel locomotive exhaust left a film of oil on the new autos; and (2) auto windshields could be scarred or cracked by the metal-tipped \"tell-tales\" which warn men atop trains of oncoming bridges or tunnels. Accordingly, automobiles aboard piggyback flats are usually coupled into the train 15 or more cars behind the locomotive; and telltales have been raised.",
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"ref": "1980, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America, page 150:",
"text": "Except for informational readout displays, each discrete and distinct telltale shall be of the color shown in column 2 of Table 2.",
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"ref": "1994, United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and Regulations, page 26:",
"text": "In order to resolve the discrepancy and permit the use of telltales in informational readout displays, the agency proposed the following requirement: Telltales and gauges incorporated into informational readout displays ( a ) Shall have not less than two levels of light intensity, a higher one for day and a lower one for nighttime conditions. (b) In the case of telltales amd gauges not equipped with a variable light intensity control shall have a light intensity at the higher level […]",
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"text": "The telltale was the lipstick on his shirt collar.",
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"ref": "1898, George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature:",
"text": "It supplies many useful links and tell-tales.",
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"ref": "2000, Dany Page, Jorge G. Hirsch, From the Sun to the Great Attractor, page 49:",
"text": "In most cases the event is shielded by a large mass and only telltales arrive on earth. Such telltales include neutrinos, or even some form of radiation.",
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"ref": "2003, Eric Martin, Arun Sharma, Frank Stephan, “On Ordinal VC-Dimension and Some Notions of Complexity”, in Ricard Gavalda, Klaus P. Jantke, Eiji Takimoto, editors, Algorithmic Learning Theory, page 54:",
"text": "It can be claimed that VC-dimension is to PAC-learning what finite telltales are to Inductive inference.",
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"ref": "2013, Harold Gatty, Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass:",
"text": "Just as small pieces of rock produce telltale directional noon holes, so do large pieces of rock on snow produce telltales: but these telltales are of rather a different kind.",
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"3": "tale tellere",
"lit": "tale teller"
},
"expansion": "Middle English tale tellere (literally “tale teller”)",
"name": "der"
}
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"etymology_text": "From tell + tale, perhaps dissimilated from earlier taleteller, from Middle English tale tellere (literally “tale teller”).",
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"plural"
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}
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"ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 183:",
"text": "Your husband is at hand; I heare his Trumpet, / We are not tell-tales, Madam; feare you not.",
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},
{
"ref": "1846, Herman Melville, Typee:",
"text": "There were some ill-natured people —tell-tales—it seemed, in Tamai; and hence there was a deal of mystery about getting up the dance.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1904, Jack London, The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:",
"text": "Louis tells me that the gossip of the sailors finds its way aft, and that two of the telltales have been badly beaten by their mates.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Fleur Yano, Collected Writings of Flora Belle Jan, page 112:",
"text": "The Chinese girls who saw me yesterday are telltales. I'd better wait till dark.",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "2011, Elizabeth Grahamslaw, A Parents' Guide To Primary School:",
"text": "Try to teach your child that there's a time to intervene and a time to mind your own business. Nobody loves a telltale.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"word": "blabbermouth"
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"word": "gossip"
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"word": "rumormonger"
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"word": "squealer"
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"word": "talebearer"
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"word": "tattletale"
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"word": "gossiper"
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"ref": "1893, “Case No. 2: Phillips vs. The Railroad Co.”, in The Counsellor: The New York Law School Law Journal, page 63:",
"text": "A railroad company, which has properly erected a “telltale,” or signal board, to give warning of the approach of a train to a bridge and which lights the place at night by an electric light, is not responsible for injury caused at night by the “telltale” to a brakeman who had been passing under it at regular intervals for five weeks, though when injured he was standing upon a new car higher than those before used, and though he ad received no warning from the company as to the danger of standing upon such a car while passing under the \"telltale\".",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1901, National Fire Protection Association, Proceedings - Volume 5, page 127:",
"text": "A float telltale to be provided which shall connect with indicator on first floor by a small chain run through 1-2 inch pipe and over pulleys well guarded against the weather.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1960 November, David Morgan, “\"Piggyback\"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684:",
"text": "For example, when trailers containing new automobiles were first piggybacked two areas of potential damage became evident: (1) diesel locomotive exhaust left a film of oil on the new autos; and (2) auto windshields could be scarred or cracked by the metal-tipped \"tell-tales\" which warn men atop trains of oncoming bridges or tunnels. Accordingly, automobiles aboard piggyback flats are usually coupled into the train 15 or more cars behind the locomotive; and telltales have been raised.",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "1980, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America, page 150:",
"text": "Except for informational readout displays, each discrete and distinct telltale shall be of the color shown in column 2 of Table 2.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1994, United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and Regulations, page 26:",
"text": "In order to resolve the discrepancy and permit the use of telltales in informational readout displays, the agency proposed the following requirement: Telltales and gauges incorporated into informational readout displays ( a ) Shall have not less than two levels of light intensity, a higher one for day and a lower one for nighttime conditions. (b) In the case of telltales amd gauges not equipped with a variable light intensity control shall have a light intensity at the higher level […]",
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"text": "The telltale was the lipstick on his shirt collar.",
"type": "example"
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"ref": "1898, George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature:",
"text": "It supplies many useful links and tell-tales.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Dany Page, Jorge G. Hirsch, From the Sun to the Great Attractor, page 49:",
"text": "In most cases the event is shielded by a large mass and only telltales arrive on earth. Such telltales include neutrinos, or even some form of radiation.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Eric Martin, Arun Sharma, Frank Stephan, “On Ordinal VC-Dimension and Some Notions of Complexity”, in Ricard Gavalda, Klaus P. Jantke, Eiji Takimoto, editors, Algorithmic Learning Theory, page 54:",
"text": "It can be claimed that VC-dimension is to PAC-learning what finite telltales are to Inductive inference.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Harold Gatty, Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass:",
"text": "Just as small pieces of rock produce telltale directional noon holes, so do large pieces of rock on snow produce telltales: but these telltales are of rather a different kind.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Something that serves to reveal something else."
],
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"(figuratively) Something that serves to reveal something else."
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"A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected to the bellows of an organ, whose position indicates when the wind is exhausted."
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"en:Nautical"
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"ref": "1997, Patrick M. Royce, Royce's Sailing Illustrated - Volume 2:",
"text": "The sailmakers mistake can be an excellent way to lose a race as the telltale signals were disturbed and confusing.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, J. J. Isler, Peter Isler, Sailing For Dummies, page 245:",
"text": "If you turn toward the wind, the sail becomes undertrimmed, and the inside, or windward, telltale starts to rise and flutter as the flow is disturbed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, John Rousmaniere, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, page 76:",
"text": "The telltale shows if wind is flowing across the sail on every point of sail except a run.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"A length of yarn or ribbon attached to a sail or shroud etc to indicate the direction of the flow of the air relative to the boat."
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"A bird, the tattler."
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"ref": "2012, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The Origins of Life, page 130:",
"text": "\"Metamorphoses . . .\" is the title of a book of telltales (or serialised fables) written by Lucius Apulei¡us, a neo-platonist priest in the second century A.D.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Dawood Kaloti, The Telltale Leaflet: From Palestine to Stockholm:",
"text": "This telltale is not like the story that you put in the hands of your children, or those narrated by mothers in their children's bedrooms in Western Europe before sleep. This is a telltale that is not welcome but is forbidden to be distributed.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"ipa": "/ˈtɛlteɪl/"
},
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"word": "tell-tale"
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"word": "tell tale"
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{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tregimtar"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "thashethonjë"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izdajnik",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "издайник"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "donosnik",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "доносник"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "espieta"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "sladrehank"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "sladderhank"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "klikspaan"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "stukaĉo"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "klaĉulo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "juorukello"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "ilmiantaja"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lercho"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lercha"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Petzer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Petze"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Petzerin"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "soxan-čin",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "سخنچین"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "sepazg",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "سپزگ"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "čoğol",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "چغل"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kapuś"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "skarżypyta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fofoqueiro"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "limbut"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "denunțător"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "guraliv"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "boltún",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "болту́н"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "splétnik",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "спле́тник"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "correveidile"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "gacetilla"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "dedikoducu"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "ispiyoncu"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "one who divulges private information",
"word": "muhbir"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tregimtar"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"word": "thashethonjë"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "donosnik",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "доносник"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "klikspaan"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"word": "stukaĉo"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"word": "denuncisto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"word": "juorukello"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"word": "kantelupukki"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"word": "acusón"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"word": "delator"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Petze"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "plotkarz"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "plotkara"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "plotkarka"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jábeda",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"tags": [
"common-gender",
"feminine"
],
"word": "я́беда"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "donosčik",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "доносчик"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "soplón"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "soplona"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "tattletale; squealer",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "acusica"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "something that serves to reveal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "aanwijzing"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something that serves to reveal",
"word": "paljastaja"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something that serves to reveal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Anzeige"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something that serves to reveal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hinweis"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something that serves to reveal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Indikator"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "namjók",
"sense": "something that serves to reveal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "намёк"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ulika",
"sense": "something that serves to reveal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "улика"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "something that serves to reveal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "indicador"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "nautical: yarn that indicates relative direction of airflow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "grímpola"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "nautical: yarn that indicates relative direction of airflow",
"word": "virtauslanka"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "nautical: yarn that indicates relative direction of airflow",
"word": "juorulanka"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "nautical: yarn that indicates relative direction of airflow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Fadensonde"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "nautical: yarn that indicates relative direction of airflow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "mostravento"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "nautical: yarn that indicates relative direction of airflow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "grímpola"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "nautical: yarn that indicates relative direction of airflow",
"word": "gösterge"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "nautical: yarn that indicates relative direction of airflow",
"word": "sayaç"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "nautical: mechanical attachment to the steering wheel",
"word": "peräsinkulman osoitin"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "engineering: contrivance for indicating or recording something",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "controleapparaat"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "engineering: contrivance for indicating or recording something",
"word": "näyttölaite"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "engineering: contrivance for indicating or recording something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kontrolleinrichtung"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "indikátor",
"sense": "engineering: contrivance for indicating or recording something",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "индика́тор"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ukazátelʹ",
"sense": "engineering: contrivance for indicating or recording something",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "указа́тель"
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}
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"word": "telltale compass"
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"comparative"
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{
"text": "I noticed the snow was dirty, a telltale sign of recent human presence.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "A telltale blush crept into her cheeks as he approached.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"Revealing something, especially something not intended to be known."
],
"links": [
[
"Revealing",
"reveal"
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]
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},
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"word": "tell-tale"
},
{
"word": "tell tale"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "revealing something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "revelador"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "afslørende"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "røbende"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "onthullend"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "paljastava"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "revealing something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "révélateur"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "revealing something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "révélatrice"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "verräterisch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "enthüllend"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "revealing something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rivelatore"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "revealing something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rivelatrice"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "revealing something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "delator"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obličitelʹnyj",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "обличительный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vydajuščij",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "выдающий"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svidetelʹstvujuščij",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "свидетельствующий"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predatelʹskij",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "предательский"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "delator"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "avslöjande"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "belli eden"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "gerçeği açığa vuran"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "revealing something",
"word": "gösteren"
}
],
"word": "telltale"
}
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