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English noun: Tell | |||
| 1. | Tell (person) 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) | ||
| Synonyms | William Tell | ||
| Instance hypernym | archer, bowman | ||
English verb: tell | |||
| 1. | tell (communication) express in words | ||
| Samples | He said that he wanted to marry her. Tell me what is bothering you. State your opinion. State your name. | ||
| Examples | They tell that there was a traffic accident | ||
| Synonyms | say, state | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | add, announce, answer, append, articulate, declare, declare, declare, enunciate, explain, get out, give, introduce, lay out, mention, misstate, note, observe, precede, preface, premise, present, remark, reply, represent, respond, sum, sum up, summarise, summarize, supply, vocalise, vocalize | ||
| Verb group | say | ||
| 2. | tell (communication) let something be known | ||
| Samples | Tell them that you will be late. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | inform | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | air, announce, annunciate, bare, bespeak, betoken, break, bring out, digress, disclose, discover, divagate, divulge, expose, foretell, give, give away, harbinger, herald, impart, indicate, ingeminate, iterate, leave, let on, let out, pass on, point, propagandise, propagandize, publicise, publicize, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell, reveal, signal, spill, stray, talk, unwrap, wander | ||
| 3. | tell (communication) narrate or give a detailed account of | ||
| Samples | Tell what happened. The father told a story to his child. | ||
| Examples | They won't tell the story | ||
| Synonyms | narrate, recite, recount | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody something. Somebody ----s something to somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | inform | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | crack, relate, rhapsodise, rhapsodize, yarn | ||
| 4. | tell (communication) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | ||
| Samples | I said to him to go home. She ordered him to do the shopping. The mother told the child to get dressed. | ||
| Examples | They tell him to write the letter | ||
| Synonyms | enjoin, order, say | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | request | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | call, command, direct, instruct, require, send for, warn | ||
| 5. | tell (cognition) discern or comprehend | ||
| Samples | He could tell that she was unhappy. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | guess, infer | ||
| 6. | tell (communication) inform positively and with certainty and confidence | ||
| Samples | I tell you that man is a crook!. | ||
| Synonyms | assure | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody of something. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify | ||
| 7. | tell (communication) give evidence | ||
| Samples | He was telling on all his former colleague. | ||
| Synonyms | evidence | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | inform | ||
| 8. | tell (cognition) mark as different | ||
| Samples | We distinguish several kinds of maple. | ||
| Synonyms | differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell apart | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Somebody ----s something from somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | identify, place | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | contradistinguish, contrast, decouple, demarcate, discriminate, discriminate, dissociate, individualise, individualize, know, know apart, label, label, separate, severalise, severalize, sex, single out, stratify | ||
| Entail | compare | ||
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