telling adj

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, telltale(a)]

2 powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument" [syn: cogent, weighty]

3 producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture" [syn: impressive]

1 an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable" [syn: relation, recounting]

2 informing by words [syn: apprisal, notification]

3 disclosing information or giving evidence about another [syn: tattle, singing]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ

Adjective

1. having force
2. revealing information
3. serving to convince

Verb

telling

1. present participle of tell

Noun

1. The act of narration
2. The disclosure of information

Dutch

Etymology

tellen + -ing

Noun

1. counting, count

Derived terms

• jaartelling

Teller may refer to:

• a bank teller, a bank employee responsible for receiving and disbursing money; sometimes referred to as a cashier
• a Teller (elections) who counts the votes in an election
• an automated teller machine
• a fortune teller, someone who practices fortune-telling
• the Teller Amendment, an 1898 amendment to the United States declaration of war against Spain proposed by Henry Moore Teller
• the Teller mine, a World War II-era German anti-tank mine

Teller is also the name of some places in the United States of America:

• Teller, Alaska
• Teller County, Colorado

Teller is also the name of several people:

• Wilhelm Abraham Teller (1734–1804), a German Protestant theologian
• Henry Moore Teller (1830–1914), a U.S. politician
• Leopold Teller (1844–??), a Hungarian actor
• Edward Teller (1908–2003), a nuclear physicist known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb"
• Ludwig Teller (1911–1965), a U.S. Naval lieutenant and political figure
• Teller (magician) (born Raymond Joseph Teller in 1948), a member of the comedy and magic duo Penn and Teller
• Juergen Teller (born 1964), a German photographer

Teller is also the name of a company:

• Teller AS is Norways largest acquirer of international card transactions and the largest supplier of services to Norwegian card issuers.

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