Tell vs Out - What's the difference?
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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.
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(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.
Away from home or one's usual place, or not indoors.
Away from; at a distance.
Away from the inside or the centre.
Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.
To the end; completely.
* Bible, Psalms iv. 23
(cricket, baseball) Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).
Away from the inside.
(colloquial) outside
A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
(baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.
(cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game such as hit wicket, wherein the bowler has hit the batsman's wicket with the ball.
(poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
(dated) A trip out; an outing.
* Charles Dickens, Bleak House
(mostly, in plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
(printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
To eject; to expel.
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To reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual.
To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
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To reveal (a secret).
To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
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(obsolete) Of a young lady, having entered society and available to be courted.
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(cricket, baseball) Of a batter or batsman, having caused an out called on himself while batting under various rules of the game.
Openly acknowledging one's homosexuality.
Tell is a related term of out.
As nouns the difference between tell and out
is that 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 while out is .As a verb tell
is (lb) to count, reckon, or enumerate.tell
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 .
See also
* dead giveawayEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Statistics
* 200 English basic words English control verbs English irregular verbs English reporting verbs English verbs with two objects 1000 English basic words ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Verb
(head)out
English
(wikipedia out)Adverb
(en adverb)- Let's eat out tonight
- Leave a message with my secretary if I'm out when you call.
- Keep out !
- The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
- Switch the lights out .
- Put the fire out .
- I hadn't finished. Hear me out.
- Deceitful men shall not live out half their days.
- The place was all decked out for the holidays.
Synonyms
* (not at home) awayAntonyms
* (not at home) inDerived terms
(terms derived from out) * all out * bottle out * bowl out * bug out * camp out * chicken out * chill out * churn out * coffeed out * come out of the closet * come out * coming out of one's ears * crank out * down and out * eat one's heart out * figure out * flesh out * foul out * freeze out * geek out * get out * go in one ear and out the other * hang out * hold out * inside out * iron out * kick out * kit out * knock out * lock out * one eighty out * opt out * out of fashion * out of it * out of joint * out of luck * out of one's mind * out of place * out of pocket * out of proportion * out of sorts * out of stock * out of the blue * out of the ordinary * out of the question * out of the way * out of the woods * out of tune * out of wedlock * out of work * out of * out there * out to lunch * out to, out to get someone * out-of-bounds * out-of-print * pig out * put out feelers * put out * rub out * suss out * turn out * wash out * way out * weed out * wipe out * zonk out * zoom outPreposition
(English prepositions)- He threw it out the door.
- It's raining out .
- It's cold out .
Synonyms
* (away from the inside) throughAntonyms
* (away from the inside) inNoun
(en noun)- They wrote the law to give those organizations an out .
- "Us London lawyers don't often get an out ; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know."
Verb
(en verb)- a king outed from his country
- The French have been outed of their holds.
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- A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design.
- Truth will out .
Adjective
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- "Pray, is she out', or is she not? I am puzzled. She dined at the Parsonage, with the rest of you, which seemed like being '''''out'' ; and yet she says so little, that I can hardly suppose she ''is ."
- Did you hear? Their newest CD is out !
- It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business.