tell

  1. Verb.  (rare, or) To count or enumerate.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To narrate.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To instruct or inform.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To order; to direct.
  6. Verb.  (transitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
  7. Verb.  (transitive) To reveal.
  8. Verb.  (intransitive) To be revealed.
  9. Verb.  (intransitive) to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
  10. Noun.  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.
  11. Noun.  (archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

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