Ask (verb)
To request (information, or an answer to a question).
“I asked her age.”
Ask (verb)
To put forward (a question) to be answered.
“to ask a question”
Ask (verb)
To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
“I’m going to ask this lady for directions.”
Ask (verb)
To request or petition; usually with for.
“to ask for a second helping at dinner”
“to ask for help with homework”
Ask (verb)
To request permission to do something.
“She asked to see the doctor.”
“Did you ask to use the car?”
Ask (verb)
To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
“What price are you asking for the house?”
Ask (verb)
To invite.
“Don’t ask them to the wedding.”
Ask (verb)
To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
Ask (verb)
To take (a person’s situation) as an example.
Ask (noun)
An act or instance of asking.
Ask (noun)
Something asked or asked for; a request.
Ask (noun)
An asking price.
Ask (noun)
An eft; newt.
Ask (noun)
A lizard.
Tell (verb)
To count, reckon, or enumerate.
“All told, there were over a dozen.”
“Can you tell time on a clock?”
“He had untold wealth.”
Tell (verb)
To narrate.
“I want to tell a story;”
“I want to tell you a story.”
Tell (verb)
To convey by speech; to say.
“Finally, someone told him the truth.”
“He seems to like to tell lies.”
Tell (verb)
To instruct or inform.
“Please tell me how to do it.”
Tell (verb)
To order; to direct, to say to someone.
“Tell him to go away.”
Tell (verb)
To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
“Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance?”
“No, there’s no way to tell.”
Tell (verb)
To reveal.
“Time will tell what became of him.”
Tell (verb)
To be revealed.
Tell (verb)
To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
“Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.”
Tell (verb)
To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
Tell (verb)
To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
“I saw you steal those sweets! I’m going to tell!”
Tell (verb)
To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement — contrasted with show
“Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage’s friendship to have less telling and more showing.”
Tell (noun)
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.
Tell (noun)
That which is told; a tale or account.
Tell (noun)
A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
Tell (noun)
A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
Tell (verb)
communicate information to someone in spoken or written words
“we must be told the facts”
“‘We have nothing in common,’ she told him”
“he’s telling the truth”
“I told her you were coming”
Tell (verb)
order or advise someone to do something
“tell him to go away”
Tell (verb)
relate (a story)
“he tried to make the children laugh by telling jokes”
“tell me the story again”
Tell (verb)
reveal (information) to someone in a non-verbal way
“the smile on her face told him everything”
“the figures tell a different story”
Tell (verb)
divulge confidential or private information
“promise you won’t tell”
Tell (verb)
inform someone of the misdemeanours of
“friends don’t tell on each other”
Tell (verb)
decide or determine correctly or with certainty
“I couldn’t tell if he believed me”
“you can tell they’re in love”
Tell (verb)
perceive (the difference between one person or thing and another)
“I can’t tell the difference between margarine and butter”
Tell (verb)
(of an experience or period of time) have a noticeable, typically harmful, effect on someone
“the strain of supporting the family was beginning to tell on him”
Tell (verb)
(of a particular factor) play a part in the success or otherwise of someone or something
“lack of fitness told against him on his first run of the season”
Tell (verb)
count (the members of a group)
“the shepherd had told all his sheep”
Tell (noun)
(especially in poker) an unconscious action that is thought to betray an attempted deception.
Tell (noun)
(in the Middle East) an artificial mound formed by the accumulated remains of ancient settlements.