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Adjective telling has 3 senses
- revealing, telling, telltale - disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down"
Antonyms: uninformative, uninstructive (indirect, via informative)
- cogent, telling, weighty - powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument"
Antonyms: forceless, unforceful, weak (indirect, via forceful)
- impressive, telling - producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture"
Antonyms: ineffective, uneffective, ineffectual (indirect, via effective)
Noun telling has 3 senses
- relation, telling, recounting - an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"
--1 is a kind of narration, recital, yarn
- telling, apprisal, notification - informing by words
--2 is a kind of informing, making known
--2 has particulars: notice
- tattle, singing, telling - disclosing information or giving evidence about another
--3 is a kind of disclosure, revelation, revealing
Verb tell has 8 senses
- state, say, tell - express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"
--1 is one way to express, verbalize, verbalise, utter, give tongue to
Sample sentence:
They tell that there was a traffic accident
- tell - let something be known; "Tell them that you will be late"
--2 is one way to inform
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- tell, narrate, recount, recite - narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child"
--3 is one way to inform
Sample sentence:
They won't tell the story
- order, tell, enjoin, say - give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"
--4 is one way to request
Sample sentence:
They tell him to write the letter
- tell - discern or comprehend; "He could tell that she was unhappy"
--5 is one way to guess, infer
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- assure, tell - inform positively and with certainty and confidence; "I tell you that man is a crook!"
--6 is one way to affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody of something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- tell, evidence - give evidence; "he was telling on all his former colleague"
--7 is one way to inform
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
--8 is one way to identify, place
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody
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