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tale |
7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tael \Tael\, n. [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tale \Tale\, v. i. To tell stories. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Gower. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tale \Tale\, n. See {Tael}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tale \Tale\, n. [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}, v. t., {Toll} a tax, also {Talk}, v. i.] 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tale n 1: an account describing incidents or events; "after dinner he told the children stories of his adventures" [syn: {narration}, {narrative}, {story}, {yarn}, {recital}] 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 Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [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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