Usually means: Measure and communicate temporal intervals.
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  1. tell time: Merriam-Webster
  2. tell time: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tell time: Wiktionary

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  1. tell time: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (tell time)

verb:  To measure time, to determine the current time.
verb:  (specifically) To read the time as displayed on an analog clock.

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