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ALL meanings of tale

tale
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  • noun tale a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog. 1
  • noun tale a literary composition having the form of such a narrative. 1
  • noun tale a falsehood; lie. 1
  • noun tale a rumor or piece of gossip, often malicious or untrue. 1
  • noun tale the full number or amount. 1
  • noun tale Archaic. enumeration; count. 1
  • noun tale Obsolete. talk; discourse. 1
  • noun tale story 1
  • noun tale lie 1
  • noun tale rumour 1
  • noun Technical meaning of 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. 1
  • countable noun tale A tale is a story, often involving magic or exciting events. 0
  • countable noun tale You can refer to an interesting, exciting, or dramatic account of a real event as a tale. 0
  • noun tale a report, narrative, or story 0
  • noun tale one of a group of short stories connected by an overall narrative framework 0
  • noun tale a malicious or meddlesome rumour or piece of gossip 0
  • noun tale (in combination) 0
  • noun tale a fictitious or false statement 0
  • noun tale a number; amount 0
  • noun tale computation or enumeration 0
  • noun tale something told or related; relation or recital of happenings 0
  • noun tale a story or account of true, legendary, or fictitious events; narrative 0
  • noun tale a literary composition in narrative form 0
  • noun tale a piece of gossip 0
  • noun tale a falsehood; lie 0
  • noun tale a tally; count 0
  • noun tale the act of telling 0
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