What is the meaning of Tell?

Mental senses related to determining, reckoning, or perceiving

1. To determine the number, amount, or value of [something].

   To determine the number, amount, or value of [something].

   To notice, discern. (Roughly, "can tell" means "know" but with a sense of direct perception.)

   To pick up on a difference. (See tell apart for more.)

   Social senses of communicating

   1. To narrate, to recount.

      To narrate, to recount.

      To convey by speech; to say.

      To instruct or inform.

      To order; to direct, to say to someone.

      To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.

      To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.

      To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement — contrasted with show.

      Abstract senses related to showing or revealing

      1. To show, be showing, be revealed.
      2. To reveal.

         To show, be showing, be revealed.

         To reveal.

         To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.

         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.

         A giveaway; something that unintentionally reveals or hints at a secret.

         That which is told; a tale or account.

         A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.

         A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

         To tell (convey by speech; say).

         imperative of telle

         alternative form of del

         tell

         Source: wiktionary.org