tell
EN[tɛl] [-ɛl]US
Fdire WTel (archéologie)
- Un tel ou tell est un terme archéologique qui désigne un site en forme de monticule qui résulte de l'accumulation de matières et de leur érosion sur une longue période, sur un lieu anciennement occupé par les hommes.
- NomPLtells
- 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.
- (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.
- 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.
- VerbeSGtellsPRtellingPT, PPtold
- (transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
- All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.
- (transitive) To narrate.
- I want to tell a story; I want to tell you a story.
- (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
- Finally, someone told him the truth. He seems to like to tell lies.
- (transitive) To instruct or inform.
- Please tell me how to do it.
- (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
- Tell him to go away.
- (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
- Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance? No, there's no way to tell.
- (transitive) To reveal.
- Time will tell what became of him.
- (intransitive) To be revealed.
- (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
- Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.
- (transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
- Plus d'exemples
- Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.
- They've been stepping out since he told her he was interested in a family.
- When I told him about the latest numbers, he went batshit.
- Utilisé au début de la phrase
- Tell me: How did it come to pass that virtue — a quality that for most of history has generally been deemed, well, a virtue — became a mark of liberal softheadedness?
- Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul, What you would ask me, that I should deny, Or stand so mammering on — Shakespeare, Othello.
- Tell her I'm turning into a pumpkin if she stays out too late. She won't be getting a lift from me.
- Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
Definition of tell in English Dictionary
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- Verbes avec deux objets
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- Verbes par type d'inflexion
- Verbes irréguliers
- Verbes irréguliers
- Verbes de contrôle
- Noms
Source: Wiktionnaire