tale

tale

story; an actual or fictitious narrative of an event: He told an exciting tale.
Not to be confused with:tail – the prolongation of an animal’s rear end: The dog wagged his tail.; the rear part of an aircraft; the side of a coin that does not bear a head or date; someone employed to follow and report the movements of another: put a tail on the suspect

tale

T0011700 (tāl)n.1. A recital of events or happenings; a report or revelation: told us a long tale of woe.2. A malicious story, piece of gossip, or petty complaint.3. A deliberate lie; a falsehood.4. A narrative of real or imaginary events; a story.5. Archaic A tally or reckoning; a total.

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[Middle English, from Old English talu; see del- in Indo-European roots.]

tale

(teɪl) n1. a report, narrative, or story2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) one of a group of short stories connected by an overall narrative framework3. a. a malicious or meddlesome rumour or piece of gossip: to bear tales against someone. b. (in combination): talebearer; taleteller. 4. a fictitious or false statement5. tell tales a. to tell fanciful liesb. to report malicious stories, trivial complaints, etc, esp to someone in authority6. tell a tale to reveal something important7. tell its own tale to be self-evident8. archaic a. a number; amountb. computation or enumeration9. an obsolete word for talk[Old English talu list; related to Old Frisian tele talk, Old Saxon, Old Norse tala talk, number, Old High German zala number]

tale

(teɪl)

n. 1. a narrative that relates some real or imaginary incident; story. 2. a literary composition in the form of such a narrative. 3. a falsehood; lie. 4. a malicious rumor. 5. Archaic. enumeration; count. 6. Obs. talk; discourse. [before 900; Middle English; Old English talu list, story]

Tale

 a number of things; a list or series; a tally or total.Examples: an exact tale of the dead bodies, 1722; tale of fair children, 1864; goodly tale of folios, 1826; of lambs (the total number), 1697; tale of oysters (quantity by which they are sold), 1594; of good works, 1732.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	tale - 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"narration, narrative, storytearjerker - an excessively sentimental narrativesubject matter, content, message, substance - what a communication that is about something is abouttall tale - an improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) storyfolk tale, folktale - a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folksob story, sob stuff - a sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress; designed to arouse sympathyfairy story, fairy tale, fairytale - a story about fairies; told to amuse childrennursery rhyme - a tale in rhymed verse for children
	2.	tale - a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"fib, taradiddle, tarradiddle, storylie, prevarication - a statement that deviates from or perverts the truthcock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale, song and dance - an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse

tale

noun1. story, narrative, anecdote, account, relation, novel, legend, fiction, romance, saga, short story, yarn (informal), fable, narration, conte (French), spiel (informal), urban myth, urban legend a collection of poems and folk tales2. lie, fabrication, falsehood, fib, untruth, spiel (informal), tall story (informal), rigmarole, cock-and-bull story (informal) He's always ready to spin a tall tale about the one that got away.Quotations
"And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,"
"And then from hour to hour we rot and rot;"
"And thereby hangs a tale" [William Shakespeare As You Like It]Proverbs
"A tale never loses in the telling"

tale

noun1. An untrue declaration:canard, cock-and-bull story, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, inveracity, lie, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, untruth.Informal: fish story, tall tale.Slang: whopper.2. An entertaining and often oral account of a real or fictitious occurrence:anecdote, fable, story.Informal: tall tale, yarn.3. Archaic. A noting of items one by one:count, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally.4. Archaic. A number or quantity obtained as a result of addition:aggregate, amount, sum, summation, sum total, total, totality.

Translations

故事荒诞故事谎言

tale

(teil) noun1. a story. He told me the tale of his travels. 故事 故事2. an untrue story; a lie. He told me he had a lot of money, but that was just a tale. 荒誕故事，謊言 荒诞故事，谎言

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