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tell·tale    Audio Help   [tel-teyl] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a person who heedlessly or maliciously reveals private or confidential matters; tattler; talebearer.
2.a thing serving to reveal or disclose something.
3.any of various indicating or registering devices, as a time clock.
4.Music. a gauge on an organ for indicating the air pressure.
5.an indicator showing the position of a ship's rudder.
6.a row of strips hung over a track to warn train crew members on freight trains that a low bridge, tunnel, or the like is approaching.
7.Yachting. (on a sailboat) a feather, string, or similar device, often attached to the port and starboard shrouds and to the backstay, to indicate the relative direction of the wind.
8.Squash. a narrow piece of metal across the front wall of a court, parallel to and extending 17 inches (43.2 cm) above the base: a ball striking this is an out.
–adjective
9.that reveals or betrays what is not intended to be known: a telltale blush.
10.giving notice or warning of something, as a mechanical device.

[Origin: 1540–50; tell1 + tale]

telltalely, adverb
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tell·tale    Audio Help   (těl'tāl')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. One who informs on another; a talebearer.
  2. Something that indicates or reveals information; a sign.
  3. Any of various devices that indicate or register information, especially:
    1. A time clock.
    2. Nautical One of the brightly colored lengths of yarn or ribbon attached to the shrouds, stays, or sails of a sailboat, serving to indicate wind direction relative to the boat's motion.
    3. A row of strips hung above a railroad track to warn a passing train of low clearance ahead.
  4. Sports A resonant metal strip, 24 or 30 inches (61 or 76 centimeters) high, across the bottom of the front wall of a racquets or squash court above which the ball must be hit.

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telltale 
1548 (n.), 1594 (adj.), from tell + tale, in phrase to tell a tale "relate a false or exaggerated story" (c.1275).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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telltale

adjective
1. disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down" [syn: revealing

noun
1. someone who gossips indiscreetly [syn: tattletale

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ˈtelltale adjective
giving information (often which a person would not wish to be known)
Example: the telltale signs of guilt
Arabic: ناقِل مَعْلومات أو إشاعات
Chinese (Simplified): 拨弄是非的
Chinese (Traditional): 撥弄是非的
Czech: prozrazující
Danish: afslørende
Dutch: veelbeduidend
Estonian: reetlik
Finnish: paljastava
French: révélateur
German: verräterisch
Greek: αποκαλυπτικός
Hungarian: árulkodó
Icelandic: sem kemur upp um, *ljóstrar upp
Indonesian: mengungkapkan
Italian: rivelatore
Japanese: 自然にあらわれる
Korean: (속사정을) 폭로하는
Latvian: izteiksmīgs; nodevīgs
Lithuanian: iškalbus, išdavikiškas
Norwegian: avslørende, ytre
Polish: wymowny
Portuguese (Brazil): revelador
Portuguese (Portugal): revelador
Romanian: grăitor
Russian: предательский
Slovak: prezrádzajúci
Slovenian: izdajalski
Spanish: revelador
Swedish: avslöjande, skvallrande
Turkish: ele veren, açığa vuran
See also: teller, telling, I told you so, tell, tell on, tell tales, tell the time, there's no telling, you never can tell

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

telltale

Tat"tler\, n. 1. One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales. --Jer. Taylor.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.

Note: The common American species are the greater tattler, or telltale (T. melanoleucus), the smaller tattler, or lesser yellowlegs (T. flavipes), the solitary tattler (T. solitarius), and the semipalmated tattler, or willet. The first two are called also telltale, telltale spine, telltale tattler, yellowlegs, yellowshanks, and yelper.

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Telltale

Tell"tale`\, a. Telling tales; babbling. "The telltale heart." --Poe.

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