tell

Definitions

• (transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
• (transitive) To narrate.
• (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
• (transitive) To instruct or inform.
• (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
• (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) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
• (authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show