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Mental senses related to determining, reckoning, or perceiving

All told, there were over a dozen.  Can you tell time on a clock?  He had untold wealth.

And in his lap a masse of coyne he told, And turned vpsidowne, to feede his eye A couetous desire with his huge threasury.

Mental senses related to determining, reckoning, or perceiving

I can tell that you're thrilled.

You can tell you've struck a nerve when even the crowd stops laughing.

Mental senses related to determining, reckoning, or perceiving

An expert can tell an original from a forgery.

Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance?  No, there's no way to tell.

Social senses of communicating

I want to tell a story;  I want to tell you a story.

“[…]Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”

Social senses of communicating

Finally, someone told him the truth.  He seems to like to tell lies.

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.

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 pe

A giveaway; something that unintentionally reveals or hints at a secret.

Those whose business it is to verify luxury bags insist, at least publicly, that there’s always a “tell” to a superfake.

Republican Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey said recently that “Israel is the only state in the world whose fundamental right to exist, within any borders at all, is openly denied by other states.” But Israel is the only nation with a “right to exist,” as the phrase is not commonly attached to any other country. And that’s the tell: This is not a legal concept, but a political one, available for broad interpretation and rhetorical weaponization.

That which is told; a tale or account.

April 4, 1743, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann I am at the end of my tell.

A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.

A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

Succoth is now associated with a large tell situated in the Jordan Valley, Deir Allah.