tell definizione dal dizionario inglese italiano

Pagina per scoprire la definizioni e traduzione di tell . Il dizionario è una parte integrante del sito esercizinglese.com con cui puoi imparare la grammatica inglese attraverso tutti i vari esercizi e lezioni di inglese che il sito ti propone.
  • shape
  • shape


Definizione monolingua


tell


Verb

tell (third-person singular simple present tells, present participle telling, simple past and past participle told)


  1. (rare or archaic) To count or enumerate.
    All told, there were over a dozen.
    • 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.
    • 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.
  2. (transitive) To narrate.
    I want to tell a story.
    I want to tell you a story.
  3. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
    Finally, someone told him the truth.
    He seems to like to tell lies.
  4. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
    Please tell me the time.
  5. (transitive) To order; to direct.
    Tell him to go away.
  6. (transitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
    Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance?
    No, theres no way to tell.
  7. (transitive) To reveal.
    Time will tell what became of him.
  8. (intransitive) To be revealed.
    • 1990, Stephen Coonts, Under Siege, 1991 Pocket Books edition, ISBN 0671742949, page 409:
      Cherry looks old, Mergenthaler told himself. His age is telling. Querulous — thats the word. Hes become a whining, querulous old man absorbed with trivialities.
  9. (intransitive) to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
    • 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, BBC Sport:
      But Englands 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.
Noun

tell (plural tells)


  1. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, esp. one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (e.g., a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals (gives away) information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.

Definizione dizionario tell


raccontare
  To talk about a story giving its details.
dire
contare
ordinare
annunciare
avvertire
avvisare
comunicare
confessare
conoscere
denunciare
descrivere
dichiarare
distinguere
divulgare
informare
ingiungere
intendere
mandare
manifestare
menzionare
narrare
notificare
parlare
riconoscere
riferire
rivelare
spiegare
suonare

Altri significati:
  (archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
  to discern, notice, identify or distinguish
  to pass information
  to instruct
  (transitive) To order; to direct.
  tell on (someone)
  (transitive) To reveal.
  (intransitive) To be revealed.
  (transitive) To narrate.
  tell (lies)
  To see someone or something as different from others.
  tell (somebody)
  A reflexive, often habitual behavior, esp. one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (e.g., a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals (gives away) information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
  (transitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
  (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
  (transitive) To instruct or inform.
  (rare or archaic) To count or enumerate.

Traduzione tell


raccontare ,dire ,contare ,ordinare ,annunciare

Il nostro dizionario è liberamente ispirato al wikidizionario .... The online encyclopedia in which any reasonable person can join us in writing and editing entries on any encyclopedic topic



Impara l'inglese con noi

Iscriviti gratis e accedi a tutti i nostri esercizi

Iscriviti gratis!
Forum
Altre materie

Statistiche

Nel pannello personale, ogni utente può facilmente tenere traccia di tutti i punti ottenuti negli esercizi. I grafici mostrano in modo chiaro le attività ancora da completare e quanto hai già realizzato!


Vai alla mia dashboard  

Resources: To ensure optimal performance and prevent server overload, each user is allocated a limited quota of resources
...
Exercise:
...
ChatGpt
...