Found 4 items, similar to told.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: told
mengatakan
Indonesian → English (Kamus Landak)
Definition: told
of toll
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: told
tell
v 1: express in words;
“He said that he wanted to marry her”;
“tell me what is bothering you”;
“state your opinion”;
“state your name” [syn:
state,
say]
2: let something be known;
“Tell them that you will be late”
3: narrate or give a detailed account of;
“Tell what happened”;
“The father told a story to his child” [syn:
narrate,
recount,
recite]
4: give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with
authority;
“I said to him to go home”;
“She ordered him to
do the shopping”;
“The mother told the child to get
dressed” [syn:
order,
enjoin,
say]
5: discern or comprehend;
“He could tell that she was unhappy”
6: inform positively and with certainty and confidence;
“I tell
you that man is a crook!” [syn:
assure]
7: give evidence;
“he was telling on all his former colleague”
[syn:
evidence]
8: mark as different;
“We distinguish several kinds of maple”
[syn:
distinguish,
separate,
differentiate,
secern,
secernate,
severalize,
severalise,
tell apart]
[also:
told]
told
See
tell
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Told
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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Told
\Told\ (t[=o]ld),
imp. & p. p. of
Tell.
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