Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having force and producing a striking effect.
- adjective Revealing previously unknown information.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Effective; impressive; striking: as, a telling speech on tariff reform.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Operating with great effect; effective.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having
force - adjective
revealing information - adjective
serving toconvince - verb Present participle of
tell . - noun The act of
narration . - noun The
disclosure of information. - noun archaic
Counting ,numbering .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun disclosing information or giving evidence about another
- adjective powerfully persuasive
- noun an act of narration
- adjective disclosing unintentionally
- adjective producing a strong effect
- noun informing by words
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Examples
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And I did it all without a label telling me I needed to Auto-Tune myself, or have Rihanna guest on my album to drive up record sales.
digg.com: Top News 2011
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The little we do is the label telling us what's happening and we go, That's weird.
Mike Ragogna: Wednesday Windfall : Conversations with KISS' Gene Simmons, Brian Culbertson and The Weepies Mike Ragogna 2010
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Francesca peered down at him, her expression telling Zak what he already knew: It was an utterly stupid question.
Clockstoppers Rob Hedden 2002
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Francesca peered down at him, her expression telling Zak what he already knew: It was an utterly stupid question.
Clockstoppers Rob Hedden 2002
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Francesca peered down at him, her expression telling Zak what he already knew: It was an utterly stupid question.
Clockstoppers Rob Hedden 2002
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So talking about pop records, it's usually the powers that be and the people at the label telling him he should do
SOHH.com 2010
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The only difference in the telling is the coda to both versions.
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The only difference in the telling is the coda to both versions.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Giving Up On Yourself Part One 2010
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The movie beings with a title telling us we are looking at Norway, 709 AD.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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The movie beings with a title telling us we are looking at Norway, 709 AD.
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