tell
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
express in words
He said that he wanted to marry her
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
let something be known
Tell them that you will be late
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
narrate or give a detailed account of
Tell what happened
Types & categories
- inform hypernym
- relate hyponym
- crack hyponym
- yarn hyponym
- rhapsodize hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
I said to him to go home
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- decree derivation
- order derivation
- injunction derivation
Sense 5 verb
discern or comprehend
He could tell that she was unhappy
Types & categories
- guess hypernym
Sense 6 verb
inform positively and with certainty and confidence
I tell you that man is a crook!
Types & categories
- swan hypernym
Sense 7 verb
give evidence
he was telling on all his former colleague
Types & categories
- inform hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 8 verb
mark as different
We distinguish several kinds of maple
Types & categories
- identify hypernym
- know hyponym
- discriminate hyponym
- label hyponym
- label hyponym
- sex hyponym
- individualize hyponym
- contrast hyponym
- severalize hyponym
- contradistinguish hyponym
- dissociate hyponym
- demarcate hyponym
- discriminate hyponym
- stratify hyponym
Related & opposite
- difference derivation
- differentiation derivation
- deviation derivation
- differentiator derivation
- compare entails
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | statement |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | affirmation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | apprisal |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | narrator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | say |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | say |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | utter |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | present |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | misstate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | answer |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | preface |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | declare |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | enunciate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | get out |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | declare |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | declare |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | note |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | add |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | explain |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | give |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sum |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | tell off |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | story |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | inform |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | digress |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | bespeak |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | disclose |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | talk |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | publicize |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | repeat |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | propagandize |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | harbinger |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | impart |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | narration |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | yarn |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | story |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | recital |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | telling |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | narrator |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | narrative |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | inform |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | relate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | crack |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | yarn |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | rhapsodize |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | decree |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | order |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | injunction |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | request |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | direct |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | instruct |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | command |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | send for |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | warn |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | guess |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | swan |
| 7 | also see | Related & opposite | make out |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | evidence |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | tattle |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | inform |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | difference |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | differentiation |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | deviation |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | differentiator |
| 8 | entails | Related & opposite | compare |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | identify |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | know |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | discriminate |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | label |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | label |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | sex |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | individualize |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | contrast |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | severalize |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | contradistinguish |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | dissociate |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | demarcate |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | discriminate |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | stratify |