What does Telling mean?
Definitions for Telling
ˈtɛl ɪŋTelling
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Princeton's WordNet
relation, telling, recountingnoun
an act of narration
"he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"
telling, apprisal, notificationnoun
informing by words
tattle, singing, tellingadjective
disclosing information or giving evidence about another
revealing, telling, telltale(a)adjective
disclosing unintentionally
"a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down"
cogent, telling, weightyadjective
powerfully persuasive
"a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument"
impressive, tellingadjective
producing a strong effect
"gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture"
Wiktionary
tellingnoun
The act of narration.
tellingnoun
The disclosure of information.
tellingnoun
Counting, numbering.
tellingadjective
having force
tellingadjective
revealing information
tellingadjective
serving to convince
Webster Dictionary
Telling
of Tell
Tellingadjective
operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Telling' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2100
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Telling' in Written Corpus Frequency: #761
Anagrams for Telling »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Telling in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Telling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of Telling in a Sentence
He was ahead of his time in terms of understanding risk, if he felt that the returns were not high enough for the risk, he would turn down a deal, even if people underneath him were telling him to do it.
The police said no flags, no swim, but we didn’t know that rule, there was nobody here telling us.
A lot of the photography that I was seeing was just photography of dead bodies, i didn't feel those pictures were really telling me anything extra apart from somebody being brutally killed, and once you've seen a couple of those pictures you understand what's happening.
Do I miss Twitter? No, people keep telling me to go back on Twitter, so apparently they miss me on Twitter.
In a sense, the body is telling the story.
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- 告诉Chinese
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