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English Dictionary: telling	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for telling
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
telling adj disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down" Synonym(s): revealing, telling, telltale(a) powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument" Synonym(s): cogent, telling, weighty producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture" Synonym(s): impressive, telling n an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable" Synonym(s): relation, telling, recounting informing by words Synonym(s): telling, apprisal, notification disclosing information or giving evidence about another Synonym(s): tattle, singing, telling
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tell \Tell\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Told}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Telling}.] [AS. tellan, from talu tale, number, speech; akin to D. tellen to count, G. z[84]hlen, OHG. zellen to count, tell, say, Icel. telja, Dan. tale to speak, t[91]lle to count. See {Tale} that which is told.] 1. To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money. [bd]An heap of coin he told.[b8] --Spenser. He telleth the number of the stars. --Ps. cxlvii. 4. Tell the joints of the body. --Jer. Taylor. 2. To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate. Of which I shall tell all the array. --Chaucer. And not a man appears to tell their fate. --Pope. 3. To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge. Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? --Gen. xii. 18. 4. To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform. A secret pilgrimage, That you to-day promised to tell me of? --Shak. 5. To order; to request; to command. He told her not to be frightened. --Dickens. 6. To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins. 7. To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate. [Obs.] I ne told no dainity of her love. --Chaucer. Note: Tell, though equivalent in some respect to speak and say, has not always the same application. We say, to tell truth or falsehood, to tell a number, to tell the reasons, to tell something or nothing; but we never say, to tell a speech, discourse, or oration, or to tell an argument or a lesson. It is much used in commands; as, tell me the whole story; tell me all you know. {To tell off}, to count; to divide. --Sir W. Scott. Syn: To communicate; impart; reveal; disclose; inform; acquaint; report; repeat; rehearse; recite.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Telling \Tell"ing\, a. Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech. -- {Tell"ing*ly}, adv.