tell

IPA: tˈɛɫ

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.
(archaeology) A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
A surname.

(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

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