TALE : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: TALE	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tale n a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children" Synonym(s): narrative, narration, story, tale a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" Synonym(s): fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tale \Tale\, v. i. To tell stories. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Gower.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tale \Tale\, n. [AS. talu number, speech, narrative; akin to D. taal speech, language, G. zahl number, OHG. zala, Icel. tal, tala, number, speech, Sw. tal, Dan. tal number, tale speech, Goth. talzjan to instruct. Cf. {Tell}, v. t., {Toll} a tax, also {Talk}, v. i.] 1. That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. [bd]The tale of Troy divine.[b8] --Milton. [bd]In such manner rime is Dante's tale.[b8] --Chaucer. We spend our years as a tale that is told. --Ps. xc. 9. 2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated. The ignorant, . . . who measure by tale, and not by weight. --Hooker. And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthornn in the dale. --Milton. In packing, they keep a just tale of the number. --Carew. 3. (Law) A count or declaration. [Obs.] {To tell tale of}, to make account of. [Obs.] Therefore little tale hath he told Of any dream, so holy was his heart. --Chaucer. Syn: Anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation; account; legend; narrative.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tale \Tale\, n. See {Tael}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tael \Tael\, n. [Malay ta[?]l, a certain weight, probably fr. Hind. tola, Skr. tul[be] a balance, weight, tul to weigh.] A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third. [Written also {tale}.]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
TALE Typed Applicative Language Experiment. M. van Leeuwen. Lazy, purely applicative, polymorphic. Based on typed second order lambda-calculus. "Functional Programming and the Language TALE", H.P. Barendregt et al, in Current Trends in Concurrency, LNCS 224, Springer 1986, pp.122-207.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Tale (1.) Heb. tokhen, "a task," as weighed and measured out = tally, i.e., the number told off; the full number (Ex. 5:18; see 1 Sam. 18:27; 1 Chr. 9:28). In Ezek. 45:11 rendered "measure." (2.) Heb. hegeh, "a thought;" "meditation" (Ps. 90:9); meaning properly "as a whisper of sadness," which is soon over, or "as a thought." The LXX. and Vulgate render it "spider;" the Authorized Version and Revised Version, "as a tale" that is told. In Job 37:2 this word is rendered "sound;" Revised Version margin, "muttering;" and in Ezek. 2:10, "mourning."