tells in English

verb

1

communicate information, facts, or news to someone in spoken or written words.

I told her you were coming

synonyms: inform, notify, apprise, let know, make aware, acquaint with, advise, put in the picture, brief, fill in, alert, warn, clue in/up, relate, recount, narrate, unfold, report, recite, describe, sketch, weave, spin, utter, voice, state, declare, communicate, impart, divulge

2

decide or determine correctly or with certainty.

you can tell they're in love

synonyms: ascertain, determine, work out, make out, deduce, discern, perceive, see, identify, recognize, understand, comprehend, figure out, suss out

3

(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

synonyms: take its toll, leave its mark, affect

4

count (the members of a series or group).

the shepherd had told all his sheep

noun

1

(especially in poker) an unconscious action that is thought to betray an attempted deception.

But I think you could waste a poker lifetime looking for tells like those.

2

(in the Middle East) an artificial mound formed by the accumulated remains of ancient settlements.

He narrowly escaped being blown up by a mine when he was exploring a tell outside the city.

verb

inform, notify, apprise, let know, make aware, acquaint with, advise, put in the picture, brief, fill in, alert, warn, clue in/up
relate, recount, narrate, unfold, report, recite, describe, sketch, weave, spin, utter, voice, state, declare, communicate, impart, divulge
instruct, order, command, direct, charge, enjoin, call on, require, bid
assure, promise, give one's word, swear, guarantee
reveal, show, indicate, be evidence of, disclose, convey, signify
give the game away, talk, tell tales, tattle, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, blab
inform on, tell tales on, give away, denounce, sell out, blow the whistle on, rat on, squeal on, finger
ascertain, determine, work out, make out, deduce, discern, perceive, see, identify, recognize, understand, comprehend, figure out, suss out
distinguish, differentiate, discriminate
take its toll, leave its mark, affect
say, state
assure
order, say, enjoin
distinguish, secern, differentiate, tell apart, severalize, separate
narrate, recite, recount
evidence

Use "tells" in a sentence

1. Astrophysics Space tells matter how to move, matter tells space how to curve

2. Expertise tells you otherwise.

3. Everything tells you: "Leave.

4. I can read tells, too.

5. She tells lies without scruple.

6. Every picture tells a story.

7. Steve Ember tells us more.

8. Tom tells a white lie.

9. Direct Characterization • The author tells …

10. 'No-one ever tells me.'

11. She’s “Befumbled,” she tells the camera

12. History tells us that they fled.

13. Steve Ember tells us about her.

14. Aufait tells accurate & compelling news

15. 33 His booming tells about him,+

16. 7 Tom tells a white lie.

17. That's what this ratio tells us.

18. “Come to me,” God tells us.

19. Though his nursemaid tells him no

20. Tells me I'm not meant to.

21. Pausanias tells a somewhat different story.

22. Find out what this tells you.

23. Coterie Liu Xinping tells a reporter.

24. The bible tells people to procreate.

25. The trajectory tells us a great deal.

26. Everybody tells us batteries are so expensive.

27. A gentleman never kisses and tells, Jim.

28. 6 Pragmatism tells a more promising story.

29. A Comedian tells jokes for a living

30. Built In tells your story, amplifies your

31. He often tells stories full of mystery.

32. Your father tells me you're very stubborn.

33. Well, the evidence tells a different story.

34. My wife often tells me I waffle.

35. Their ratio tells us the water temperature.

36. An astrologer tells me to do something.

37. Danny tells me I'm with you now.

38. White count just tells me he's quitting.

39. A dictionary tells you what words mean.

40. He tells me to meet him at the magistrates' court the following morning, tells me to keep away from the scumbags.

41. Because his conscience tells him it is right.

42. So, my father tells me you hate bullfighters.

43. Basil tells me you've been a naughty girl.

44. And the poet tells him what to do.

45. That man tells my son I'm a slayer...

46. He tells the story in the first person.

47. And that tells us something about these trajectories.

48. Tells a saucy tale Makes a little stir

49. The film tells its story with Admirable economy

50. Tells us suspect scribes at aero-dynamic front.