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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Tell \Tell\ (t[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Told (t[=o]ld); p.
     pr. & vb. n. Telling.] [AS. tellan, from talu tale, number,
     speech; akin to D. tellen to count, G. z["a]hlen, OHG. zellen
     to count, tell, say, Icel. telja, Dan. tale to speak,
     t[ae]lle to count. See Tale that which is told.]
     1. To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to
        enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell
        money. ``An heap of coin he told.'' --Spenser.
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              He telleth the number of the stars.   --Ps. cxlvii.
                                                    4.
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              Tell the joints of the body.          --Jer. Taylor.
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     2. To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to
        narrate.
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              Of which I shall tell all the array.  --Chaucer.
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              And not a man appears to tell their fate. --Pope.
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     3. To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
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              Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
                                                    --Gen. xii.
                                                    18.
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     4. To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to
        teach; to inform.
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              A secret pilgrimage,
              That you to-day promised to tell me of? --Shak.
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     5. To order; to request; to command.
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              He told her not to be frightened.     --Dickens.
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     6. To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to
        find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color
        ends and the other begins.
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     7. To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to
        estimate. [Obs.]
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              I ne told no dainity of her love.     --Chaucer.
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     Note: Tell, though equivalent in some respect to speak and
           say, has not always the same application. We say, to
           tell truth or falsehood, to tell a number, to tell the
           reasons, to tell something or nothing; but we never
           say, to tell a speech, discourse, or oration, or to
           tell an argument or a lesson. It is much used in
           commands; as, tell me the whole story; tell me all you
           know.
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     To tell off, to count; to divide. --Sir W. Scott.
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     Syn: To communicate; impart; reveal; disclose; inform;
          acquaint; report; repeat; rehearse; recite.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Told \Told\ (t[=o]ld),
     imp. & p. p. of Tell.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Tell \Tell\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Told; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Telling.] [AS. tellan, from talu tale, number, speech; akin
     to D. tellen to count, G. z["a]hlen, OHG. zellen to count,
     tell, say, Icel. telja, Dan. tale to speak, t[ae]lle to
     count. See Tale that which is told.]
     1. To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to
        enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell
        money. ``An heap of coin he told.'' --Spenser.
  
              He telleth the number of the stars.   --Ps. cxlvii.
                                                    4.
  
              Tell the joints of the body.          --Jer. Taylor.
  
     2. To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to
        narrate.
  
              Of which I shall tell all the array.  --Chaucer.
  
              And not a man appears to tell their fate. --Pope.
  
     3. To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
  
              Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
                                                    --Gen. xii.
                                                    18.
  
     4. To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to
        teach; to inform.
  
              A secret pilgrimage, That you to-day promised to
              tell me of?                           --Shak.
  
     5. To order; to request; to command.
  
              He told her not to be frightened.     --Dickens.
  
     6. To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to
        find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color
        ends and the other begins.
  
     7. To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to
        estimate. [Obs.]
  
              I ne told no dainity of her love.     --Chaucer.
  
     Note: Tell, though equivalent in some respect to speak and
           say, has not always the same application. We say, to
           tell truth or falsehood, to tell a number, to tell the
           reasons, to tell something or nothing; but we never
           say, to tell a speech, discourse, or oration, or to
           tell an argument or a lesson. It is much used in
           commands; as, tell me the whole story; tell me all you
           know.
  
     To tell off, to count; to divide. --Sir W. Scott.
  
     Syn: To communicate; impart; reveal; disclose; inform;
          acquaint; report; repeat; rehearse; recite.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Told \Told\ (t[=o]ld),
     imp. & p. p. of Tell.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  told
       See tell

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  told
     Hungarian vb.
     (lb hu transitive) to add, to splice
     Hungarian alt.
     (inflection of hu tol  2 s sub pres def)
     Hungarian vb.
     (inflection of hu tol  2 s sub pres def)
     Norwegian Nynorsk part.p.
     (nn-fcon: 2012) (infl of nn tole  past part)
     Norwegian Nynorsk vb.
     (nn-fcon: 2012) (infl of nn tole  sup)
     Yola vb.
     (alt form yol tolth)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  told
     vb.
     (infl of en tell  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  told
     Hungarian vb.
     (lb hu transitive) to add, to splice
     Hungarian alt.
     (inflection of hu tol  2 s sub pres def)
     Hungarian vb.
     (inflection of hu tol  2 s sub pres def)
     Norwegian Nynorsk part.p.
     (nn-fcon: 2012) (infl of nn tole  past part)
     Norwegian Nynorsk vb.
     (nn-fcon: 2012) (infl of nn tole  sup)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  told
     Hungarian vb.
     (lb hu transitive) to add, to splice
     Hungarian alt.
     (inflection of hu tol  2 s sub pres def)
     Hungarian vb.
     (inflection of hu tol  2 s sub pres def)
     Norwegian Nynorsk part.p.
     (nn-fcon: 2012) (infl of nn tole  past part)
     Norwegian Nynorsk vb.
     (nn-fcon: 2012) (infl of nn tole  sup)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  told
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm t old impperf=tell)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  told
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en tell ordform=perfpart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb tell)

From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.1 :   [ freedict:dan-eng ]

  told /tˈʔʌl/
  customs

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Told /tˈəʊld/
  مخبر

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  told /tˈəʊld/
  řekl

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  told /tˈəʊld/
  řečen

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  tell /tˈɛl/ (told /tˈəʊld/ <>, told /tˈəʊld/ <>) 
  etw. erzählen, berichten, sagen 
        "he/she tells"  - er/sie erzählt, er/sie berichtet, er/sie sagt
        "tell sb. about sth."  - jdm. von etw. erzählen, jdm. von etw. berichten
        "I must tell you about what happened today. I just need to get it off my chest."  - Ich muss dir erzählen, was heute passiert ist. Ich muss das einfach loswerden.
        "What did I tell you?"  - Was habe ich gesagt?, Hab' ich's nicht gesagt?
        "Don't tell me he's sick."  - Jetzt sag bloß, er ist krank.
        "You're telling me! (I'm well aware of it)"  - Wem sagst Du das?, Wem sagen Sie das? (Ich kenne das nur allzu gut)
        "tell sb. to get stuffed"  - jdm. sagen, dass er einen mal kann
        "'She can come any time to talk it out.' 'Okay. I'll tell her.'"  - „Sie kann jederzeit kommen und sich aussprechen.“ „Gut. Ich sag's ihr.“
   see: telling, told, untold, Tell me …, it is said, legend has it, This is not necessarily so.
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  told /tˈəʊld/
  erzählt, berichtet, gesagt
        "I/he/she told"  - ich/er/sie erzählte, ich/er/sie berichtete, ich/er/sie sagte
        "he/she has/had told"  - er/sie hat/hatte erzählt, er/sie hat/hatte berichtet, er/sie hat/hatte gesagt
   see: tell, telling, untold, Tell me …, it is said, legend has it, This is not necessarily so.
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  told /tˈəʊld/
  sagen gekonnt, ersehen, erkannt
   see: be able to tell sth., telling, Do tell me!, How do I tell if …?, He might have been lying. I couldn't tell., You can never tell what his next reaction will be., It's hard to tell how long things will take., She might like it or not. You never can tell with females., As far/near as I can tell, he is happy at his new job., The moment my parents walked in, I could tell that things were not going well., I could tell from her tone of voice that Kim was disappointed., They look exactly the same. How can you tell which is which?, You can tell a lot about a person by the kind of car they drive., I hope you cannot tell this by looking at me., You can't tell by looking at someone if they have an infection., You can tell he's English from a mile away., You can tell by their face how straining it is., You can tell by his accent that he doesn't come from around here., You can tell by her voice that she's got a cold., I can definitely tell a difference between the two sauces.
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  told /tˈəʊld/
  
  αφηγήθηκα, είπα

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  told /tˈəʊld/
  je rekao, pripovijedati, rekao

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  told /tˈəʊld/
  1. (bak.) tell.

From Hungarian-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.4.1 :   [ freedict:hun-eng ]

  told /tˈold/
  to splice

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈtoʊɫd/

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  v. 告诉,说,断定;
  vbl. 告诉,说;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     vbl. tell的过去式和过去分词

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