Teignbridge hotels list (tourism) and tell (iou)

Teignbridge hotels list (tourism)

List of hotels in Teignbridge, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Hotels, hostels and other accommodation options for Teignbridge.

tell (iou)

tell verb. .

I. verb trans. & (rare) intrans. Mention or name (a series of things or people) one after another in order; give a list (of). OE-LME.
verb trans. & intrans. with of, about. Give an account or narrative of (facts, actions, or events); narrate or relate (a tale or story). OE.
Bible (Tyndale): Acts 15:12 Barnabas and Paul..tolde what signes and wondres God had shewed. G. Crabbe He told of bloody fights. G. Greene He was telling another fishing story.
b. verb intrans. Of a tale or story: be related with a particular effect; sound well etc. when told. rare. L16.
verb trans. & intrans. Make known by speech or writing; communicate (information, facts, ideas, news, etc.); state, report; arch. declare formally or publicly; proclaim. ME.
Bible (AV): 2 Samuel 1:20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streetes of Askelon. G. Vidal A lot of news to tell his mother. E. Feinstein I am told she is highly regarded as a research scientist.
b. verb intrans. Give evidence or be an indication of. L18.
J. Buchan There stood the car,..with the dust on her which told of a long journey.
a. verb trans. Utter (words); recite (a passage etc.); say. Now Scot. & dial. ME.
H. Binning You use to tell over some words in your prayers.
b. verb trans. Express (thoughts etc.) in words; utter (specified words); say. ME.
Pope Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him. B. Jowett Let me tell you the pleasure which I feel in hearing of your fame.
c. verb intrans. Talk, converse, gossip. Now dial. M17.
verb trans.
a. Inform (a person) of something; make aware, apprise, acquaint; instruct. (Foll. by of, about.) ME.
H. MacInnes 'Call the police.' 'It's done,' Tony told her. S. Chitty They told her of lost fortunes.
b. Inform on a person to (another person). colloq. E20.
verb trans. Assert positively to or assure (a person). ME.
Thackeray I can tell you there is a great art in sub-editing a paper.
a. verb trans. With can or be able: state; know; perceive, understand. Freq. in neg. & interrog. contexts. LME.
S. Johnson Whether this short rustication has done me any good I cannot tell. J. Fowles I always thought people could tell I lived on my own.
b. Distinguish (esp. one thing from another), recognize. L17.
R. H. Dana They can be told by their..dress, manner, and..speech. G. Greene Less capable..of telling truth from falsehood.
a. verb trans. & intrans. Disclose or reveal (something secret or private); divulge (confidential information). LME.
Shakespeare Twelfth Night She never told her love. Thackeray She told no more of her thoughts now than she had before.
b. verb trans. Foretell, predict. Long only in tell a person's future etc., passing into sense 5a. LME.
verb trans. Order or direct (a person) to do; give an order or direction to. L16.
B. Montgomery He must do what he was told.
II.
verb trans. Count (the members of a series or group); enumerate, reckon. Now chiefly arch. & dial. OE.
J. Clare The shepherd had told all his sheep.
b. spec. Count (voters, votes cast). E16.
a. Reckon up or calculate the total amount or value of (money etc.). (Foll. by out, over.) arch. OE.
N. P. Willis As a miser tells his gold.
b. verb trans. Count out (pieces of money) in payment; pay (money). Freq. foll. by down, out, into a person's hand. Now arch., Scot., & dial. ME.
W. Raymond Biddlecombe..told the money out in gold.
c. verb intrans. Be counted; amount to. Now rare. LME.
III. verb trans. Account, consider, or estimate as being (something specified). OE-LME.
verb intrans. & trans. with cogn. obj. Make account of; have a specified estimate or opinion of. ME-L15.
verb intrans. Count for something; act or operate with effect; make an impression. Also, have weight or influence in favour of or against. L18.
G. A. Birmingham Your want of a proper education tells against you. M. Cox The exertion of going up a hill tells on the legs.
Phrases: all told in all. as far as one can tell judging from the available information. don't tell me (that) I find it hard to believe that. do you mean to tell me that ?: see MEAN verb1. HEAR tell. I'll tell you what colloq.: used to call special attention in making a proposal etc. I tell you colloq.: used to emphasize a statement. I tell you what = I'll tell you what above. it is told, it was told, etc., the story or legend is, was, etc. (how, that, etc.). it tells a (specified or understood) book or other source tells (how, that, etc.). I told you so I warned you that this would happen, I said that this was the case. kiss and tell: see KISS verb. live to tell the tale: see TALE noun. not tell one's shirt: see SHIRT noun. tell a lie: see LIE noun1. tell apart: see APART adverb 3. tell a person a thing or two: see THING noun1. tell a person goodbye, tell a person hello, etc., (chiefly US) say goodbye, hello, etc., to a person. tell a person's fortune: see FORTUNE noun. tell a person what to do with , tell a person where to put colloq.: expr. emphatic rejection. tell a person where to get off, tell a person where he or she gets off: see GET verb. tell a tale: see TALE noun. tell away = tell out (b) below. tell it like it is colloq. (orig. US Black English) relate the facts of a matter realistically or honestly, holding nothing back. tell its own tale: see TALE noun. tell me about it iron. I know that only too well, 'You're telling me!' tell me another colloq.: expr. disbelief or incredulity. tell off (a) count off from the whole number or company; detach (esp. so many men for a particular duty); gen. assign to a particular task, position, etc.; (b) colloq. reprimand, scold. tell one's beads: see BEAD noun 1. tell out (a) (long arch. & dial.) separate or exclude by counting; count out; (b) Scot. dial. drive away (pains etc.) by uttering incantations. tell tales: see TALE noun 2c. tell tales out of school: see SCHOOL noun1. tell that to the horse-marines: see HORSE-MARINE 1. tell that to the marines: see MARINE noun 2. tell the time determine the time from the face of a clock or watch. tell the truth: see TRUTH noun. tell the world colloq. announce openly; assert emphatically. tell volumes: see VOLUME noun. there is no telling it is impossible to know. truth to tell: see TRUTH noun. to tell the truth: see TRUTH noun. to tell tother from which: see TOTHER pronoun 1. you don't mean to tell me that ?: see MEAN verb1. you're telling me colloq. there is no need to tell me; I know that only too well.
Comb.: tell-all adjective & noun (of) a revelatory account disclosing esp. secret or confidential information; tell-truth (now rare or obsolete) a person who or thing which tells the truth; a truthful or candid person or writing.
tellable adjective able to be told or narrated; fit to be told; worth telling (earlier in UNTELLABLE): L15.

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