To Tell

1. (transitive, archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
2. (transitive) To narrate.
3. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
4. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
5. (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
6. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
7. (transitive) To reveal.
8. (intransitive) To be revealed.
9. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
10. (transitive) To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
11. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
12. (authorship, intransitive) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show

In dialects, other past tense forms (besides told) may be found, including tald/tauld (Scotland), tawld (Devonshire), teld (Yorkshire, Devonshire), telled (Northern England, Scotland, and in nonstandard speech generally), telt (Scotland, Geordie), tole (AAVE, Southern US, and some dialects of England), toll (AAVE), tolt (AAVE).

(enumerate): count, number

(narrate): narrate, recount, relate

(to instruct or inform): advise, apprise; inform

(reveal): disclose, make known; divulge

(inform someone in authority): grass up, snitch, tattle; rat out

(to instruct or inform): ask