tells
Passes on information
Tells is the third-person singular of tell, covering all that verb's meanings: to communicate information She tells me everything, to distinguish I can't tell the twins apart, to have effect The strain is starting to tell.
A tell is also a poker term for an unconscious behavior that reveals a player's hand—extended to any inadvertent signal of hidden intentions: His nervous laugh is a tell.
Account of events
- taleSpoken or written narrative
- recountsNarrates or re-tallies
- relatesConnects or recounts
- describesConveys in words
chronicles · shares · explains · speaks · reports · details · conveys · imparts
Concealed information
- truthsAccurate statements about reality
- confessesAcknowledges wrongdoing openly
- divulgesMakes known previously hidden
- exposesMakes visible or known
uncovers · admits · betrays · spills · blurts · leaks · tattles · snitches
Signs that reveal status
- symptomsIndicators of disease
- cluesHints toward answers
- hintsIndirect suggestions
- signalsConveyed indications
markers · giveaways · evidence · cues · warnings · patterns · behaviors · mannerisms
Calculated false front
Way things contrast
- apartIn different locations
- discernsRecognizes through careful observation
- identifiesEstablishes what something is
- recognizesPerceives as known
differentiates · determines · perceives · detects · notices · spots · separates · distinguishes
story
Account of events
describes · chronicles · shares · explains · speaks · reports · details · conveys · imparts · verbalizes
secrets
Concealed information
- truthsAccurate statements about reality
- confessesAcknowledges wrongdoing openly
- divulgesMakes known previously hidden
exposes · uncovers · admits · betrays · spills · blurts · leaks · tattles · snitches · whispers
indicators
Signs that reveal status
signals · markers · giveaways · evidence · cues · warnings · patterns · behaviors · mannerisms · tics
bluff
Calculated false front
call · all-in · ante · chip · dealer · flop · river · turn · hand · stack
difference
Way things contrast
- apartIn different locations
- discernsRecognizes through careful observation
- identifiesEstablishes what something is
recognizes · differentiates · determines · perceives · detects · notices · spots · separates · distinguishes
- verb formsam, are, is, was, were
- card gamespoker, blackjack, solitaire, hearts, spades
- pokerblinds, all-in, all in, call, seven-card stud
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
- Ancient Near EastMesopotamia, Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Assyrian Empire
tellsconceals
Keeps from being seen
hides · withholds · suppresses · covers up · obscures
tellsguesses
Estimates without certainty
estimates · speculates · surmises · conjectures · approximates
- tell the truthCommunicate facts honestly
- tell me morePrompt for details
- tell the differencePerceive distinctions between things
- tell apartRecognize differences between
- show and tellStudent object presentation
- fortune tellingPredicting someone's future
tell, telling, teller, retell, foretell, telltale, retelling, retells, tellers