To count, reckon, or enumerate.
All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.
To narrate, to recount.
I want to tell a story; I want to tell you a story.
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.
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.
A surname.
From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Pro...
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To convey by speech; to say.
Finally, someone told him the truth. He seems to like to tell lies.
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.