"tell" meaning in English

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      "form": "tell",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tells",
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told",
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        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telling",
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        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He always tells the truth."
        },
        {
          "text": "I told all of my friends about the Simple English Wiktionary."
        },
        {
          "text": "I will not tell anyone."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "When you tell something to someone, you speak to the person about some fact or idea."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My mom told me to clean my room."
        }
      ],
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        "If you tell someone to do something, you are giving them an order."
      ],
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          "name": "Verbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'm sorry I hit you. I'll give you a dollar if you don't tell."
        },
        {
          "text": "If you're lying, your eyes will tell on you."
        }
      ],
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        "If you tell, you let a parent, teacher, police officer, etc. know that somebody did something bad."
      ],
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "tĕl"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tɛl/"
    },
    {
      "sampa": "/tEl/"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-tell.ogg",
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      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "tell"
}

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    {
      "form": "tell",
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        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tells",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telling",
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        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He always tells the truth."
        },
        {
          "text": "I told all of my friends about the Simple English Wiktionary."
        },
        {
          "text": "I will not tell anyone."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "When you tell something to someone, you speak to the person about some fact or idea."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My mom told me to clean my room."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you tell someone to do something, you are giving them an order."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "Intransitive verbs",
        "Verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'm sorry I hit you. I'll give you a dollar if you don't tell."
        },
        {
          "text": "If you're lying, your eyes will tell on you."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you tell, you let a parent, teacher, police officer, etc. know that somebody did something bad."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "tĕl"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tɛl/"
    },
    {
      "sampa": "/tEl/"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-tell.ogg",
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}