| 单词 | to tell off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto tell off to tell off 1. a. transitive. Originally Military. Originally: to number off the soldiers of (a platoon, squadron, etc.); to divide up (soldiers) by this means. Later: to assign (a member or members of a larger group, originally a body of soldiers) to a particular task, duty, objective, position, or the like; to depute, detach, detail; (sometimes more generally) to allocate; to divide up. In later use frequently with to. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > count people tell1511 muster1565 poll1649 to tell off1727 census1881 the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose markOE to choose out1297 out-trya1325 cullc1330 welec1330 try1340 walea1350 coil1399 drawa1400 to mark outa1450 electa1513 sorta1535 prick1536 exempta1538 select1567 sort1597 to gather out1611 single1629 delibate1660 to cut out1667 outlooka1687 draught1714 draft1724 to tell off1727 the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > separate by counting tellOE tale1631 to tell off1827 to count out1865 1727 H. Bland Treat. Mil. Discipline vi. 66 As soon as the Platoons are told off, there must be an Officer appointed to each, to Command them. 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 2 Each Squadron is to be told off—by Half squadrons. Four divisions. Eight sub-divisions. 1804 J. Whitehouse Jrnl. 3 Nov. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1997) XI. 108 The Captn. formd. his men On the S.W. Side of the river Missourie and told them off in Sections, from the right. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 29 Jan. (1941) 15 How could the castes be distinguished or told off in a populous nation? 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow III. xv. 229 The troops were told off into the boats. 1872 Punch 21 Sept. 116/1 Let an intelligent policeman be told off to mount guard. 1909 Manch. Guardian 16 Apr. 14/4 Six Arabs are told off whose special duty it is to feed and water the birds twice every day. 1936 Wonderful S. Afr. 381 At intervals rest-camps are provided with rough comforts and means of protection, apart from the armed guard which is told off to act as guides. 1991 Ships Monthly Apr. 16/1 The ‘Black Gang’, all Scots except for one Irishman and me and Alf, then mustered in the engine-room and were told off into watches. 2001 E. Kerner Lesser Kindred v. 107 Varien and I were told off to see what we could find in the way of small game. b. intransitive. Military. Of a group of soldiers: to number off; to divide into groups on the basis of such numbering. Now rare. ΚΠ 1757 New Regulations Prussian Infantry ii. i. 28 While the Battalion is telling off and sizing, the Major appoints the Officers and non-commissioned Officers to their respective Posts. 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 86 The men are to be instructed to tell off by files and by threes. 1887 Times of India 29 Oct. The men mounted and formed up behind him, telling off in a whisper. 1951 F. H. Maitland Hussar of Line iii. 42 From the right tell off by sections! 2. transitive. To count off; to mark off in sequence. ΚΠ 1742 T. Clarke Compl. & Compend. Treat. Arithm. 4 Begin at the Right-hand, and tell off two Threes or six Places. 1790 Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 2 ii. ii. 62 We can tell off the beats, not only by pairs, but also by parcels of three, four and other numbers. 1857 Harper's Weekly 10 Jan. 20 The large clock..that seems to ‘tell off’, as with a pendulum tally, the entrances and the exits. 1879 Wesleyan Missionary Notices Dec. 287/2 One man..gave nine pounds for himself and family, naming each person and telling off each pound on the tips of his fingers. 1989 M. Dibdin Tryst viii. 93 The church clock told off the hours one after the other. 1999 R. Kaplan Nothing that Is viii. 85 Telling off the seconds, the cracks in the sidewalk, the patternless holes in the dentist's ceiling tiles. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (intransitive)] > number in succession to tell off1837 1837 C. Lofft Self-formation I. ii. 67 I told off the tale as glibly and circumstantially as though I had read it from a printed book. 1841 A. Helps Self-discipline in Ess. (1875) 21 To think that a man can find nothing better to do, in the presence of his Creator, than telling off so many words! 1892 Roanoke (Va.) Times 22 Nov. 2/3 Little did we girls think, as we glibly told off the story of that battle and the queen's gift to the conqueror, that [etc.]. ΚΠ 1876 London Society May 447/2 The business of ‘telling off prisoners’ proceeded. 1880 R. M. Jephson Roll of Drum 218 The duty of telling off the culprits was at once proceeded with. Prisoner after prisoner was marched in.., his crime read out to him, evidence heard on both sides, and sentence pronounced. 1889 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. 33 315 In all ordinary cases of military crime the circumstances are such that there is usually no difficulty whatever in at once ‘telling off’ a prisoner. 5. transitive. To reprimand, rebuke, scold. Cf. telling-off n. 2, and also tick v.1 3c. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] threac897 threapc897 begripea1000 threata1000 castea1200 chaste?c1225 takec1275 blame1297 chastya1300 sniba1300 withnima1315 undernima1325 rebukec1330 snuba1340 withtakea1340 reprovec1350 chastisea1375 arate1377 challenge1377 undertake1377 reprehenda1382 repreync1390 runta1398 snapea1400 underfoc1400 to call to account1434 to put downc1440 snebc1440 uptakec1440 correptc1449 reformc1450 reprise?c1450 to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450 control1451 redarguec1475 berisp1481 to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522 checkc1530 admonish1541 nip1548 twig?1550 impreve1552 lesson1555 to take down1562 to haul (a person) over the coals1565 increpate1570 touch1570 school1573 to gather up1577 task1580 redarguate?1590 expostulate1592 tutor1599 sauce1601 snip1601 sneap1611 to take in tax1635 to sharp up1647 round1653 threapen1671 reprimand1681 to take to task1682 document1690 chapter1693 repulse1746 twink1747 to speak to ——1753 haul1795 to pull up1799 carpet1840 rig1841 to talk to1860 to take (a person) to the woodshed1882 rawhide1895 to tell off1897 to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900 to get on ——1904 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 strafe1915 tick1915 woodshed1935 to slap (a person) down1938 sort1941 bind1942 bottle1946 mat1948 ream1950 zap1961 elder1967 1897 Manch. Guardian 17 July 7/6 This girl's mother..has told me off even more than you did, but I stood it all. 1915 Munsey's Mag. June 206/1 When the woman..played without the slightest regard to the rules of the game, she had to be told off properly. 1933 Scotsman 12 Aug. 13/2 That famous declaration of Scots independence..in which the Holy Father is ‘told off’ for favouring the English against the Scots. 1974 M. Birmingham You can help Me iv. 97 She's..telling off the police good and proper... She blames them for all the dirt. 2005 Mizz 30 Nov. 70/1 Alf can usually be found telling off the younger residents of the Bay for not calling him ‘Mr Stewart’. < as lemmas |
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