Tale vs Sage - What's the difference?
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(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.
Wise.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) grave; serious; solemn
* Milton
A wise person or spiritual teacher; a man or woman of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.
* 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , London: Oxford University Press (1973), § 34:
The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes.
(Internet slang) The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply
In obsolete terms the difference between tale and sage
is that tale is a speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse while sage is grave; serious; solemn.As an adjective sage is
wise.As an interjection sage is
Word used in the email field of to prevent a bump of the post. Used as an option rather than a word in some imageboard software.tale
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.
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. […]”}}
- 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
* ----sage
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sage (11th century), from . The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece .Adjective
(er)- All you sage counsellors, hence!
- commanders, who, cloaking their fear under show of sage advice, counselled the general to retreat
- [Great bards] in sage and solemn tunes have sung.
Synonyms
* sagaciousNoun
(en noun)- We aspire to the magnanimous firmness of the philosophic sage .