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How to pronounce “tell”
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Pronunciation guide for tell
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tell with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- I Will Teach You to Be Rich
So tell us a little bit about where you've come from.
- Definition summary
- (transitive, archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce tell
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
So tell us a little bit about where you've come from.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tell”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive, archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To narrate, to recount.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say.
- (transitive) To instruct or inform.
- (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
- (transitive or intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
- (transitive) To reveal.
- (intransitive) To be revealed.
- (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
- (transitive) To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
- (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
- (authorship, intransitive) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement — contrasted with show.
- [Noun]
- 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.
- (informal) A giveaway; something that unintentionally reveals or hints at a secret.
- (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
- (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
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