What is the meaning of Tell?

To count, reckon, or enumerate.

To narrate, to recount.

To convey by speech; to say.

To instruct or inform.

To order; to direct, to say to someone.

To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

To reveal.

To be revealed.

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

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

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.

imperative of telle

Alternative form of del

Source: wiktionary.org