 8 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tale
noun
1: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence
or course of events; presented in writing or drama or
cinema or as a radio or television program; "his
narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain
adults as well as children" [syn: {narrative}, {narration},
{story}]
2: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach";
"how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: {fib},
{story}, {tarradiddle}, {taradiddle}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tael \Tael\, noun [Malay ta?l, a certain weight, probably fr.
Hind. tola, Skr. tul[=a] a balance, weight, tul to weigh.]
A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings
sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight
of one ounce and a third. [Written also {tale}.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tale \Tale\, noun
See {Tael}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tale \Tale\, noun [AS. talu number, speech, narrative; akin to D.
taal speech, language, G. zahl number, OHG. zala, Icel. tal,
tala, number, speech, Sw. tal, Dan. tal number, tale speech,
Goth. talzjan to instruct. Cf. {Tell}, verb (used with an object), {Toll} a tax,
also {Talk}, verb (used without an object)]
1. That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any
rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse;
statement; history; story. ''The tale of Troy divine.''
--Milton. ''In such manner rime is Dante's tale.''
--Chaucer.
We spend our years as a tale that is told. --Ps. xc.
9.
2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an
enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or
weight; a number reckoned or stated.
The ignorant, . . . who measure by tale, and not by
weight. --Hooker.
And every shepherd tells his tale,
Under the hawthornn in the dale. --Milton.
In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
--Carew.
3. (Law) A count or declaration. [Obs.]
{To tell tale of}, to make account of. [Obs.]
Therefore little tale hath he told
Of any dream, so holy was his heart. --Chaucer.
Syn: Anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation;
account; legend; narrative.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tale \Tale\, verb (used without an object)
To tell stories. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Gower.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "tale":
account, aggregate, all, amount, anecdotage, anecdote,
back-fence gossip, backbiting, backstabbing, be-all and end-all,
belittlement, blague, box score, calumny, canard, cast, chitchat,
chronicle, cock-and-bull story, count, defamation, depreciation,
difference, disparagement, entirety, enumerate, epic, epos,
exaggeration, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsification,
falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fish story, flam,
flimflam, ghost story, gossip, gossiping, gossipmongering,
gossipry, groundless rumor, half-truth, history, idle talk,
legal fiction, libel, lie, little white lie, mendacity,
misrepresentation, myth, narration, narrative, newsmongering,
number, numerate, piece of gossip, pious fiction, prevarication,
product, quantity, recital, reckoning, record, report, rumor, saga,
scandal, score, scuttlebutt, slander, slight stretching, story,
sum, sum total, summation, talebearing, taletelling, talk,
tall story, tall tale, tally, taradiddle, tattle, tell,
the bottom line, the story, the whole story, tittle-tattle, total,
totality, tote, trumped-up story, untruth, white lie, whole,
x number, yam, yarn
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
TALE
Typed Applicative Language Experiment. M. van Leeuwen. Lazy,
purely applicative, polymorphic. Based on typed second order
lambda-calculus. "Functional Programming and the Language
TALE", H.P. Barendregt et al, in Current Trends in
Concurrency, LNCS 224, Springer 1986, pp.122-207.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Tale
(1.) Heb. tokhen, "a task," as weighed and measured out = tally,
i.e., the number told off; the full number (Ex. 5:18; see 1 Sam.
18:27; 1 Chr. 9:28). In Ezek. 45:11 rendered "measure."
(2.) Heb. hegeh, "a thought;" "meditation" (Ps. 90:9); meaning
properly "as a whisper of sadness," which is soon over, or "as a
thought." The LXX. and Vulgate render it "spider;" the
Authorized Version and Revised Version, "as a tale" that is
told. In Job 37:2 this word is rendered "sound;" Revised Version
margin, "muttering;" and in Ezek. 2:10, "mourning."
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