[teyl] 
,| 1. | a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog. |
| 2. | a literary composition having the form of such a narrative. |
| 3. | a falsehood; lie. |
| 4. | a rumor or piece of gossip, often malicious or untrue. |
| 5. | the full number or amount. |
| 6. | Archaic. enumeration; count. |
| 7. | Obsolete. talk; discourse. |
| tale (tāl) n.
[Middle English, from Old English talu; see del-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
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.
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."
