cuéntamelo

Phonetic: "/tɛl/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.

Definition: That which is told; a tale or account.

Definition: A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.

Phonetic: "/tɛl/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: (archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.

Example: All told, there were over a dozen.  Can you tell time on a clock?  He had untold wealth.

Definition: To narrate.

Example: I want to tell a story;  I want to tell you a story.

Definition: To convey by speech; to say.

Example: Finally, someone told him the truth.  He seems to like to tell lies.

Definition: To instruct or inform.

Example: Please tell me how to do it.

Definition: To order; to direct, to say to someone.

Example: Tell him to go away.

Definition: To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

Example: Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance?  No, there's no way to tell.

Definition: To reveal.

Example: Time will tell what became of him.

Definition: To be revealed.

Definition: To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.

Example: Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.

Definition: To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.

Definition: To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.

Example: I saw you steal those sweets! I'm going to tell!

Definition: (authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show

Example: Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.

Part Of Speech: pronoun

Definition: As the direct object of a verb.

Example: Can you hear me?

Definition: Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.

Definition: As the object of a preposition.

Example: Come with me.

Definition: As the indirect object of a verb.

Example: He gave me this.

Definition: Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.

Definition: As the complement of the copula (be or is).

Example: It wasn't me.

Definition: (with and) As the subject of a verb.

Example: Me and my friends played a game.

Definition: (not with and) As the subject of a verb.

Phonetic: "/əˈbɛʊt/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Moving around; astir.

Example: After my bout with Guillan-Barre Syndrome, it took me 6 months to be up and about again.

Definition: In existence; being in evidence; apparent.

Example: This idea has been about for a while but has only recently become fashionable.

Definition: Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood.

Example: I had my keys just a minute ago, so they must be about somewhere.

Phonetic: "/əˈbɛʊt/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: On all sides; around.

Example: I looked about at the scenery that surrounded me.

Definition: Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.

Example: Bits of old machinery were lying about.

Definition: From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.

Example: walking about;  rushing about;  jumping about;  thrashing about

Definition: Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.

Example: messing about;  fooling about;  loafing about

Definition: Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.

Example: Dinner's about ready.

Definition: Near; in the vicinity.

Definition: To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.

Example: to face about;  to turn oneself about

Definition: In succession; one after another; in the course of events.

Definition: In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference.

Example: a mile about, and a third of a mile across

Phonetic: "/əˈbɛʊt/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.

Example: The snake was coiled about his ankle.

Definition: Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.

Example: He was well known about town.

Definition: Indicates that something will happen very soon; indicates a plan or intention to do something.

Definition: Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.

Example: He talked a lot about his childhood.

Definition: Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.

Example: to be about one's business

Definition: Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.

Example: I can't find my reading glasses, but they must be somewhere about the house.

Definition: On one's person; nearby the person.

Example: I had no weapon about me but a stick.

Definition: In or near, as in mental faculties or in the possession of; under the control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.

Example: He has his wits about him.

Phonetic: "/ɪt/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.

Definition: The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.

Example: In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…

Definition: The game of tag.

Example: Let's play it at breaktime.

Definition: Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty.

Definition: Sexual activity.

Example: caught them doing it

Definition: A biological force that inhabits living beings, according to the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck.

Phonetic: "/ɪt/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Most fashionable.

Phonetic: "/ɪt/"

Part Of Speech: pronoun

Definition: The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals.

Example: I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today.

Definition: A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender.

Example: She took the baby and held it in her arms.

Definition: Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.

Example: Is it her?

Definition: The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)

Example: It is nearly 10 o’clock.

Definition: The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms.

Definition: The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a .

Example: He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that)

Definition: All or the end; something after which there is no more.

Example: Are there more students in this class, or is this it?

Definition: A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male.

Definition: Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.