Publish is a related term of tell.
As verbs the difference between publish and tell
is that
publish is (intransitive): to issue a medium (eg publication) while
tell is (
lb) to count, reckon, or enumerate.
As a noun 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.