Mental senses related to determining, reckoning, or perceiving
To determine the number, amount, or value of [something].transitive
To notice, discern. (Roughly, "can tell" means "know" but with a sense of direct perception.)intransitive, transitive
Mental senses related to determining, reckoning, or perceiving / To notice, discern. (Roughly, "can tell" means "know" but with a sense of direct perception.)
To pick up on a difference. (See tell apart for more.)intransitive, transitive
Social senses of communicating
To narrate, to recount.ditransitive, transitive
To convey by speech; to say.ditransitive, transitive
To instruct or inform.transitive
To order; to direct, to say to someone.transitive
To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.transitive
To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.childish, intransitive
To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement — contrasted with show.intransitive
Abstract senses related to showing or revealing
To show, be showing, be revealed.intransitive
To reveal.transitive
To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.intransitive
(of a fact) To support a certain position.intransitive
Lingaku