Site vs Tell - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
* a1307 , , Chronicle'', read in Thomas Hearne, ''Peter Langtoft's Chronicle'' (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, in ''The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. Volume 3, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, Volume I , Samuel Bagster (1810)
The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
* 1613 , Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, ''A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby,
* 1705 , Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: being an essay towards the natural history of England. The Second Edition with Large Additions and Corections: Also a Short Account of the Author, &c. , Charles Brome & John Nicholson,
* 1785 , Henry Morris, Surgical diseases of the kidney , Lea Brothers and Co,
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* 2006 , Ernest B Abbott , A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments , American Bar Association, ISBN 1590315936,
A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
* 1716 , Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament, attempted in verse: And adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures , John Hooke,
* 1716 , John Mortimer, Th. Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a...[full title extends to 70 words]...The Second Volume...The Fourth Edition, with Additions , R. Robinson, and G. Mortlock,
* 2006 , Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, Warren Bird, The Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations , Zondervan, ISBN 0310270154,
The posture or position of a thing.
* 1709 , A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers'' read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, ''The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words] , A. and J. Churchill,
* 1724 , John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities: containing, I. An Essay for Explaining the Creation and the Deluge, according to the Sense of the Gentiles...[full title extends to over 98 words] , W. Taylor,
:* Maintain site setbacks as far as possible from roadways and other routes providing rapid public access.
A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
* 1982 , Jack B. Rochester, Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471869244,
* 1991 , V. Yodaiken, K. Ramamritham, Verification of a Reliable Net Protocol'', read in J. (Jan) Vytopil (editor), ''Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Second International Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 1992: Proceedings , Springer, ISBN 0387550925,
* 2006 , Keith J. Dreyer, Pacs: A Guide to the Digital Revolution , Springer, ISBN 0387260102,
A website.
* 1986 , Penguin Putnam Inc. Online, advertisement inside back cover of Howard Pyle The Story of King Arthur and His Knights , Signet Classic (1986), ISBN 0451524888,
* 1992 , Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre , Wordsworth Editions (1992), ISBN 1853260207,
* 2006 , Doug Addison, Web Site Cookbook , O'Reilly, ISBN 0596101090,
(category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
A part of the body which has been operated on.
(architecture) To situate or place a building.
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* 1872 , Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland , Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland,
* 2006 , Mark Jaccard, Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean And Enduring Energy , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521861799,
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(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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, title= (lb) To convey by speech; to say.
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, title= (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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*:Stability was restored, but once the re-entry propulsion was activated, the crew was told to prepare to come home before the end of their only day in orbit.
(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.
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, title= A reflexive, often habitual behavior, (especially) one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
That which is told; tale; account.
* Walpole
(internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
(archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
As nouns the difference between site and tell
is that site is site, location while tell is a reflexive, often habitual behavior, (especially) one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold or tell can be (archaeology) a mound, originally in the middle east, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.As a verb tell is
(lb) to count, reckon, or enumerate.site
English
Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl) (compare Norwegian syt).Noun
(en noun)p. 5
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)p .8,
- A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site , and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.
p. 315,
- However, I have taken care in the Map prefix'd to this Essay, to put a Mark for the Site of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....
p. 74,
- At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.
citation, passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site .}}
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
p. 84,
- EA critical first line of defense for entrance to more semi-public and semi-private areas of the site .
p. 192,
- The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site , do's their Assaults repel/Who e're their Idols cou'd, and them destroy,/For Life he shall the Gen'ral's place enjoy.
p. 208
- Having given you an Account of the Site , Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.
p. 7,
- Our first site was the result of a building project that I am told was the first urban redevelopment initiated by a church since "white flight" began in the community surrounding our church.
p. 179,
- And if this be the Shape, and Site , then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.
p. 11,
- There is an Agreement ammong all their Authors regarding the Names of the said Times, and their Order, and concerning the Number of the Days in general, and of the Order of the Creation ; but concerning the Site of the Times, that is, in what Month, Day, and in what part of the Year they began, it is not so.
- 2006 , Ernest B Abbott , A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments , American Bar Association, ISBN 1590315936,
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p. 433,
- The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...
p. 208,
- If the site' is forced to send a mesage against its will,...we make the '''site''' go to an error state, and remain there. Note that the ' site can fail for other reasons.
p. 298,
- The site with the DS3 connection can communicate back to our main network at 45 Mb/s.
p. 398,
- Every month you'll get an inside look at our upcoming books and new features on our site .
p. xxvi,
- Voice of the Shuttle: http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-vict.html; general site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.
p. 248,
- When a new visitor arrives at your site', your web server should log the referring ' site , which is generally either a search engine or another web site.
Derived terms
* construction siteVerb
(sit)- The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down.
Mining Journal,
- A reassessment of the requirements of the gold mining industry, including uranium production, for the next few years has revealed the urgent necessity for the provision of additional power, and steps have been taken to site and plan a new station.
p. 24,
- For this reason it was found convenient to site pump rooms between groups of cargo tanks.
p. 22,
- It is difficult to gauge current public attitudes to nuclear power in industrialized countries because there have been few efforts to site and construct new plants in the last twenty years.
- Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school.
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ((etyl) telja). More at tale.Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia, passage=But England's superior fitness told in the second half, with Delon Armitage, Manu Tuilagi and Chris Ashton (two) going over for tries to secure a bonus-point win.}}
Synonyms
* (enumerate) count * (narrate) narrate, recount, relateAntonyms
* (to instruct or inform) askDerived terms
* all told * tell against * tell all * tell-all * tell off * tell on * tell-tale / telltale * tell tales * tell tales out of school * tellerNoun
(en noun)- I am at the end of my tell .
