Verb

To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.

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# To witness or observe by personal experience.

#* (Bible), (w) viii. 51

Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

To form a mental picture of.

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# (label) To understand.

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# To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.

(label) To meet, to visit.

# To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.

#* (Bible), 1 (w) xv. 35

And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death.

# To date frequently.

(label) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.

(label) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.

To foresee, predict, or prophesy.

To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if'' or ''whether ).

(used in the imperative ) Used to emphasise a proposition.

Verb

(lb) To count, reckon, or enumerate.

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*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:

*:And in his lap a masse of coyne he told , / And turned vpsidowne, to feede his eye / A couetous desire with his huge threasury.

*1875 , Hugh MacMillan, The Sunday Magazine :

*:Only He who made them can tell the number of the stars, and mark the place of each in the order of the one great dominant spiral.

(lb) To narrate.

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(lb) To convey by speech; to say.

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(lb) To instruct or inform.

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*Bible, (w) xii. 18

*:Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

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(lb) To order; to direct, to say to someone.

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*(Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)

*:He told her not to be frightened.

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(lb) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

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*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

(lb) To reveal.

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(lb) To be revealed.

*1990 , (Stephen Coonts), Under Siege, 1991 (Pocket Books) edition, ISBN 0671742949, p.409:

*:Cherry looks old, Mergenthaler told himself. His age is telling . Querulous — that's the word. He's become a whining, querulous old man absorbed with trivialities.

(lb) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.

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*1859 (John Stuart Mill), (On Liberty)

*:Opinion ought [… to give] merited honour to every one, whatever opinion he may holdkeeping nothing back which tells', or can be supposed to ' tell , in their favour.

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 18, author=Ben Dirs, work=BBC Sport

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