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单词 to tell tother from which
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to tell tother (or t'other) from which
1. The other (of two): often opposed to tone (see tone pron. and adj.). to tell tother (or t'other) from which (jocular), to tell one from the other or (loosely) another; to distinguish or tell apart.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > discriminate, distinguish [phrase]
to tell tother (or t'other) from whicha1325
can (or could) skillc1340
tella1425
to thread the difference1627
to cut (to) a thread (between)1647
to draw the line1766
the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > one (in antithesis to another) > the other
tothera1325
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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 16 Þet uerste heaued of þe beste of helle ys prede, þet oþer is enuie.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 101 Ane dale ha etheold..& spende al  oðer.]
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2724 Ðis on wulde don ðe toðer wrong.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 248 Þe toon pope falliþ þe toþurs bullis.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. vi. 3 Thei crieden the tother to the tother.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11056 Þe tan was leuedi maiden ying, þe toþer [Gött. toder] hir hand-womman kerling.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. vi. 3 Thei crieden the toon to the tother.
c1440 Anc. Cookery in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 435 Dresse up the tone with the tother.
1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. Dvv Nother wyll we do the tone nor the tother.
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine ii. ii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gg4/2 Fran. What's the tother? Clor. What tother? Fran. He that lyes along there.
1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 7 Two small Dissertations, the one upon Noe's arrival..the t'other was about the Origin of the Druids.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 179 Brandy the tane, the tither whisky.
1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs iv, in Poems 10 The tither was a ploughman's collie.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. xii. 315 My lord cares as little about the tane as the tother.
β. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 84 And in þat toþer [Fairf. þe toþer, Trin. Cambr. þat oþer] scho lastes ever.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2032 ‘Þi fader slepand,’ said þat toiþer [Fairf. 14 þe toþer], ‘Liggus here-oute.’a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3494 His moder him luued mare þan þat toþer [Fairf., Gött., Trin. Cambr. þe toþer].γ. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1339/1 Tone gone to God,..still reigning tother.1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse i. iv Here's one, there's tother.1688 M. Prior Ode Exod. iii. 14 vi He on t'other's Ruin rears his Throne.1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 129 Securing the vogue on one side and t'other.1804 M. Edgeworth Lame Jervas i, in Pop. Tales I. 3 I saw the ghost..with the light in one hand, and a chain dragging after him in t'other.1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 259 You cannot tell one from tother.Phr.1874 M. Clarke His Nat. Life (1975) III. xxii. 24 You're so much alike one can't tell t'other from which.1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 258 We've mixed the whole show up..till you can't tell t'other from which.1979 D. Francis Whip Hand ii. 27 He calls them all Tommy, because he doesn't know tother from which.
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