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What does tell mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word tell? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
  2. (transitive) To narrate.
  3. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
  4. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
  5. (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
  6. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
  7. (transitive) To reveal.
  8. (intransitive) To be revealed.
  9. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
  10. (transitive) To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
  11. (childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
Noun
  1. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
  2. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
  3. (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
Noun
  1. (archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
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