Tale vs Carol - What's the difference?
tale | carol |
(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)
(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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, title= A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
* Hooker
* Milton
* Carew
* 1843 (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
(slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence game.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
(dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
(historical) A round dance accompanied by singing.
A song of joy.
* Dryden
* 1908 ,
A religious song or ballad of joy.
* Keble
* Longfellow
To sing in a joyful manner.
* Spenser
* Beattie
To sing carols, especially Christmas carols in a group.
To praise or celebrate in song.
* Milton
To sing (a song) cheerfully.
* Prior
As nouns the difference between tale and carol
is that tale is number while carol is a round dance accompanied by singing.As verbs the difference between tale and carol
is that tale is to speak; discourse; tell tales while carol is to sing in a joyful manner.As a proper noun Carol is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . Related to tell, talk.Noun
(en noun)- Both number twice a day the milky dams; And once she takes the tale of all the lambs.
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- the ignorant, who measure by tale , and not by weight
- And every shepherd tells his tale , / Under the hawthorn in the dale.
- In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
- They proceeded with some rigour, these Custodiars; took written inventories, clapt-on seals, exacted everywhere strict tale and measure
Derived terms
* fairy tale / fairytale * folk tale / folktale * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * tall tale * telltale * tell tales * tell tales out of schoolEtymology 2
From (etyl) talen, from (etyl) .Verb
(tal)Etymology 3
Anagrams
* ----carol
English
Noun
(en noun)- the costly feast, the carol , and the dance
- The sunshine struck hot on his fur, soft breezes caressed his heated brow, and after the seclusion of the cellarage he had lived in so long the carol of happy birds fell on his dulled hearing almost like a shout.
- They sang a Christmas carol .
- In the darkness sing your carol of high praise.
- I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old, familiar carol play.
Verb
- carol of love's high praise
- The gray linnets carol from the hill.
- The shepherds at their festivals / Carol her goodness.
- Hovering swans carol sounds harmonious.
