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Tale : (noun)
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]
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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Tale : \Tale\, v. i.
To tell stories. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Gower.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Tale : \Tale\, n.
See Tael.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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TALE, Eng. law. The declaration or count was anciently so called in law
pleadings. 3 Bl. Com. 293.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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TALE, comm. law. A denomination of money in China. In the computation of the
ad valorem duty on goods, &c. it is computed at one dollar and forty-eight
cents. Act of March 2, 1799, s. 61, 1 Sto. L. U. S. 626. Vide Foreign Coins.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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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.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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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."
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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