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| n. (person) | 1. tell, william tell | a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap). |
| ~ archer, bowman | a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow. |
| v. (communication) | 2. say, state, tell | express in words.; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name" |
| ~ present, lay out, represent | bring forward and present to the mind.; "We presented the arguments to him"; "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason" |
| ~ misstate | state something incorrectly.; "You misstated my position" |
| ~ answer, reply, respond | react verbally.; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation" |
| ~ preface, premise, precede, introduce | furnish with a preface or introduction.; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution" |
| ~ give tongue to, utter, express, verbalise, verbalize | articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise.; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse" |
| ~ announce, declare | announce publicly or officially.; "The President declared war" |
| ~ enunciate, vocalise, vocalize, articulate | express or state clearly. |
| ~ say | state as one's opinion or judgement; declare.; "I say let's forget this whole business" |
| ~ get out | express with difficulty.; "I managed to get out a few words" |
| ~ declare | state emphatically and authoritatively.; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with" |
| ~ declare | make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official.; "Do you have anything to declare?" |
| ~ note, remark, mention, observe | make mention of.; "She observed that his presentation took up too much time"; "They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing" |
| ~ add, append, supply | state or say further.; "`It doesn't matter,' he supplied" |
| ~ explain | define.; "The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean" |
| ~ give | convey or reveal information.; "Give one's name" |
| ~ sum, summarise, sum up, summarize | be a summary of.; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" |
| v. (communication) | 3. tell | let something be known.; "Tell them that you will be late" |
| ~ digress, divagate, stray, wander | lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking.; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture" |
| ~ inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to.; "I informed him of his rights" |
| ~ bespeak, betoken, indicate, signal, point | be a signal for or a symptom of.; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued" |
| ~ disclose, divulge, let on, expose, give away, let out, reveal, unwrap, discover, bring out, break | make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret.; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" |
| ~ talk, spill | reveal information.; "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"; "The former employee spilled all the details" |
| ~ publicize, bare, publicise, air | make public.; "She aired her opinions on welfare" |
| ~ ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell | to say, state, or perform again.; "She kept reiterating her request" |
| ~ propagandise, propagandize | subject to propaganda. |
| ~ annunciate, foretell, harbinger, herald, announce | foreshadow or presage. |
| ~ impart, pass on, give, leave | transmit (knowledge or skills).; "give a secret to the Russians"; "leave your name and address here"; "impart a new skill to the students" |
| v. (communication) | 4. narrate, recite, recount, tell | narrate or give a detailed account of.; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" |
| ~ inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to.; "I informed him of his rights" |
| ~ relate | give an account of.; "The witness related the events" |
| ~ crack | tell spontaneously.; "crack a joke" |
| ~ yarn | tell or spin a yarn. |
| ~ rhapsodise, rhapsodize | recite a rhapsody. |
| v. (communication) | 5. enjoin, order, say, tell | give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority.; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" |
| ~ direct | command with authority.; "He directed the children to do their homework" |
| ~ instruct | give instructions or directions for some task.; "She instructed the students to work on their pronunciation" |
| ~ command, require | make someone do something. |
| ~ request | ask (a person) to do something.; "She asked him to be here at noon"; "I requested that she type the entire manuscript" |
| ~ send for, call | order, request, or command to come.; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!" |
| ~ warn | ask to go away.; "The old man warned the children off his property" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. tell | discern or comprehend.; "He could tell that she was unhappy" |
| ~ guess, infer | guess correctly; solve by guessing.; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize" |
| v. (communication) | 7. assure, tell | inform positively and with certainty and confidence.; "I tell you that man is a crook!" |
| ~ avow, swan, affirm, assert, aver, swear, verify | to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.; "Before God I swear I am innocent" |
| v. (communication) | 8. evidence, tell | give evidence.; "he was telling on all his former colleague" |
| ~ inform | act as an informer.; "She had informed on her own parents for years" |
| v. (cognition) | 9. differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart | mark as different.; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" |
| ~ know | be able to distinguish, recognize as being different.; "The child knows right from wrong" |
| ~ identify, place | recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something.; "She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster" |
| ~ discriminate, know apart | recognize or perceive the difference. |
| ~ label | distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions. |
| ~ label | distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom. |
| ~ sex | tell the sex (of young chickens). |
| ~ individualise, individualize | make or mark or treat as individual.; "The sounds were individualized by sharpness and tone" |
| ~ compare | examine and note the similarities or differences of.; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie" |
| ~ contrast | put in opposition to show or emphasize differences.; "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student" |
| ~ severalise, severalize | distinguish or separate. |
| ~ contradistinguish | distinguish by contrasting qualities. |
| ~ decouple, dissociate | regard as unconnected.; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology" |
| ~ demarcate | separate clearly, as if by boundaries. |
| ~ discriminate, single out, separate | treat differently on the basis of sex or race. |
| ~ stratify | divide society into social classes or castes.; "Income distribution often stratifies a society" |
| such | | |
| adj. | 1. such | of so extreme a degree or extent.; "such weeping"; "so much weeping"; "such a help"; "such grief"; "never dreamed of such beauty" |
| ~ much | (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent.; "not much rain"; "much affection"; "much grain is in storage" |
| adv. | 2. such | to so extreme a degree.; "he is such a baby"; "Such rich people!" |
| ~ intensifier, intensive | a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies.; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier" |
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| n. (substance) | 1. frankincense, gum olibanum, olibanum, thus | an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation. |
| ~ gum | any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying. |
| adv. | 2. hence, so, thence, therefore, thus | (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result.; "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted" |
| adv. | 3. so, thus, thusly | in the way indicated.; "hold the brush so"; "set up the pieces thus" |
| say | | |
| n. (state) | 1. say | the chance to speak.; "let him have his say" |
| ~ chance, opportunity | a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances.; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance" |
| v. (communication) | 2. allege, aver, say | report or maintain.; "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money" |
| ~ plead | make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts. |
| ~ assert, asseverate, maintain | state categorically. |
| v. (communication) | 3. say, suppose | express a supposition.; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?" |
| ~ speculate | talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion.; "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal" |
| v. (stative) | 4. read, say | have or contain a certain wording or form.; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?" |
| ~ read | interpret something that is written or printed.; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?" |
| ~ feature, have | have as a feature.; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France" |
| v. (communication) | 5. articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out | speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way.; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" |
| ~ twang | pronounce with a nasal twang. |
| ~ mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter | express in speech.; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" |
| ~ devoice | utter with tense vocal chords. |
| ~ raise | pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth.; "raise your `o'" |
| ~ lilt | articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way. |
| ~ palatalise, palatalize | pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate. |
| ~ nasalise, nasalize | pronounce with a lowered velum.; "She nasalizes all her vowels" |
| ~ nasalise, nasalize | speak nasally or through the nose.; "In this part of the country, people tend to nasalize" |
| ~ mispronounce, misspeak | pronounce a word incorrectly.; "She mispronounces many Latinate words" |
| ~ aspirate | pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds. |
| ~ vocalize, voice, vocalise, sound | utter with vibrating vocal chords. |
| ~ retroflex | articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate.; "Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants" |
| ~ subvocalise, subvocalize | articulate without making audible sounds.; "she was reading to herself and merely subvocalized" |
| ~ syllabise, syllabize | utter with distinct articulation of each syllable.; "The poet syllabized the verses he read" |
| ~ drawl | lengthen and slow down or draw out.; "drawl one's vowels" |
| ~ labialise, labialize, round | pronounce with rounded lips. |
| ~ lisp | speak with a lisp. |
| ~ accent, accentuate, stress | put stress on; utter with an accent.; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word" |
| ~ vowelise, vowelize, vocalise, vocalize | pronounce as a vowel.; "between two consonants, this liquid is vowelized" |
| ~ click | produce a click.; "Xhosa speakers click" |
| ~ trill | pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'.; "Some speakers trill their r's" |
| ~ sibilate | pronounce with an initial sibilant. |
| ~ flap | pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds. |
| ~ explode | cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/. |
| ~ roll | pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/.; "She rolls her r's" |
| v. (communication) | 6. say | communicate or express nonverbally.; "What does this painting say?"; "Did his face say anything about how he felt?" |
| ~ say | indicate.; "The clock says noon" |
| ~ convey | make known; pass on, of information.; "She conveyed the message to me" |
| v. (communication) | 7. say | utter aloud.; "She said `Hello' to everyone in the office" |
| ~ give tongue to, utter, express, verbalise, verbalize | articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise.; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse" |
| v. (communication) | 8. say | state as one's opinion or judgement; declare.; "I say let's forget this whole business" |
| ~ say, state, tell | express in words.; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name" |
| v. (communication) | 9. say | recite or repeat a fixed text.; "Say grace"; "She said her `Hail Mary'" |
| ~ recite | repeat aloud from memory.; "she recited a poem"; "The pupil recited his lesson for the day" |
| v. (communication) | 10. say | indicate.; "The clock says noon" |
| ~ record, register, read, show | indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments.; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'" |
| ~ say | communicate or express nonverbally.; "What does this painting say?"; "Did his face say anything about how he felt?" |
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