Tale vs Kindred - What's the difference?

Tale is a related term of kindred.

As nouns the difference between tale and kindred

is that tale is (de-form-noun) while kindred is (often|plural only) distant and close relatives, collectively or kindred can be a combination of extended family and religious group, of the religious order in america.

As an adjective kindred is

of the same nature.

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.

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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

* ----

kindred

English

Noun

(en noun)

(often, plural only) Distant and close relatives, collectively. (rfex)

(often, plural only) Peoples of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren. (rfex)

(countable) A grouping of relatives.

* Shakespeare

I think there's no man is secure / But the queen's kindred .

Synonyms

* (people of same ethnic descent) brethren, kinship

Noun

(en noun)

A combination of extended family and religious group, of the religious order in America.

Synonyms

* Hearth * Garth * Stead

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Adjective

(-)

Of the same nature.

* 1924 , , Metaphysics , translated by W. D. Ross, Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001, book 1, part 1.

We have said in the Ethics what the difference is between art and science and the other kindred faculties;