tale : พจนานุกรม Longdo (Longdo Dictionary)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tale \Tale\ (t[=a]l), n. See {Tael}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] We spend our years as a tale that is told. --Ps. xc. 9. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] The ignorant, . . . who measure by tale, and not by weight. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale. --Milton. [1913 Webster] In packing, they keep a just tale of the number. --Carew. [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) A count or declaration. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] {To tell tale of}, to make account of. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Therefore little tale hath he told Of any dream, so holy was his heart. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Syn: Anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation; account; legend; narrative. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tale \Tale\ (t[=a]l), v. i. To tell stories. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --Gower. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tael \Tael\, n. [Malay ta[i^]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}.] [1913 Webster] Taen From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: tale n 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}, {tale}] 2: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: {fib}, {story}, {tale}, {tarradiddle}, {taradiddle}] From Danish-English Freedict dictionary [fd-dan-eng]: tale speech speak; talk

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