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▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
▸ verb:  (transitive, ditransitive) To narrate, to recount.
▸ verb:  (transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To instruct or inform.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
▸ verb:  (transitive or intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To reveal.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be revealed.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
▸ verb:  (authorship, intransitive) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement — contrasted with show.
▸ noun:  A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
▸ noun:  (informal) A giveaway; something that unintentionally reveals or hints at a secret.
▸ noun:  (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
▸ noun:  (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
▸ noun:  (archaeology) A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
▸ noun:  A surname.

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