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Chronicle vs Tale - What's the difference?

chronicle | tale |

As nouns the difference between chronicle and tale

is that chronicle is a written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time while tale is (de-form-noun).

As a verb chronicle

is to record in or as in a chronicle.

chronicle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
  • *
  • *:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

    • Usage notes

    * Often used in the title of a newspaper, as in Pennsylvania Chronicle .

    Synonyms

    * (account of events and when they happened) annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version

    Verb

  • To record in or as in a chronicle.

    • Synonyms

    * (record in a chronicle) record

    tale

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) . Related to tell, talk.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Number.
  • (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
  • (obsolete) Speech; language.
  • (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
  • (legal, obsolete) A count; declaration.
  • (rare, or, archaic) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • Both number twice a day the milky dams; And once she takes the tale of all the lambs.
  • (rare, or, archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
  • (rare, or, archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
  • An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”}}
  • A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
  • A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
  • * Hooker
    • the ignorant, who measure by tale , and not by weight
  • * Milton
    • And every shepherd tells his tale , / Under the hawthorn in the dale.
  • * Carew
    • In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
  • * 1843 (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
    • They proceeded with some rigour, these Custodiars; took written inventories, clapt-on seals, exacted everywhere strict tale and measure
  • (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence game.
    • Derived terms
    * fairy tale / fairytale * folk tale / folktale * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * tall tale * telltale * tell tales * tell tales out of school

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) talen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (tal)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
  • (dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Anagrams

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