Telltale

What do we mean by telltale?

One who informs on another; a talebearer. noun

Something that indicates or reveals information; a sign. noun

Any of various devices that indicate or register information, especially. noun

A time clock. noun

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. noun

A row of strips hung above a railroad track to warn a passing train of low clearance ahead. noun

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. noun

One who officiously or heedlessly communicates information concerning the private affairs of others; one who tells that which is supposed to be secret or private; a blabber; an informer; a tale-bearer. noun

An indication or an indicator; that which serves to convey information. noun

A name given to a variety of instruments or devices, usually automatic, used for counting, indicating, registering, or otherwise giving desired information. noun

In ornithology, a tattler; a bird of the genus Totanus in a broad sense: as, the greater and lesser telltale, Totanus melanoleucus and T. fiavipes. See tattler, and cut under yellowlegs. noun

Disposed to tell or reveal secrets, whether officiously or heedlessly; given to betraying the confidences or revealing the private affairs of others; blabbing: as, telltale people.

Showing, revealing, or denoting that which is not intended to be known, apparent, or proclaimed: as, telltale tears; telltale blushes.

That gives warning or intimation of something: as, a telltale pipe attached to a cistern or tank.

One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress. noun

A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted. noun

A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm. noun

A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course. noun

A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted. noun

One who divulges private information with intent to hurt others.

Tattletale; squealer.

An indicator, such as a warning light, that serves to warn of a hazard or problem.

Something that serves to reveal something else.

A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected to the bellows of an organ, whose position indicates when the wind is exhausted.

A length of yarn or ribbon attached to a sail or shroud etc to indicate the direction of the flow of the air relative to the boat.

A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.

A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.

A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees (factory hands, watchmen, drivers, etc.) by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.

A bird, the tattler.

A story or fable that has a moral or message.

Having to choose a difficult choice; developing an outcome that includes seperation or fatality of a living being, based on the game company Telltale that features games consisting the above definition. Urban Dictionary

That asshole that tells on you in class and gets you into trouble, very similar to the fun-sucker they are incredibly stupid and you want to slap them round the face with a bat. They never leave your classes and stay there all through middle school from year 7 to 11. Urban Dictionary

That scumbag you want to beat up with a spiky baseball bat for telling you off. Most common in elementary/ middle school, this word can be used as an insult to liar. Urban Dictionary

A game which is really easy to get all achievements in it. Urban Dictionary

No matter what decision you make, or how nice or mean you are to a character in a telltale game, they end up being a jerk to you anyway. Choosing the right words or even agree with them constantly has no bearing on how they are going to treat you. Rendering your decisions pontless Urban Dictionary

Telltale, adjective, a 3d rendered adventure game for any IP from someone else that is mediocre due to the illusion of choice and generally glitchyness but will sell amazingly because Walking Dead Season 1 was good. Urban Dictionary

Used when you're faced with a hard decision to make and you have to choose no matter what Urban Dictionary

A practice in video games that involve the player's choices being able to influence the game and the character's fate. The Telltale Treatment is where the characters whose status (dead, alive etc) is influenced by the player's choices but the character in question ends up dying on later on in the story either way. This is named "The Telltale Treatment" as it is most common in Telltale Games' games such as The Walking Dead. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to telltale:
telltale, tell-tale, tell tale, tall tale, tell-all, tellable, tell all, telltales, felltare, teletalk.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word telltale:
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Words that rhyme with telltale:
scale, rail, pale, hail, entail, trail, mail, avail, email, whale, sale, detail, tail, prevail, nail, bail, cocktail, fail, curtail, ale, sail, tale, veil, assail, hale, retail, stale, gale, bale, frail, quail, travail, vale, wail, male, dovetail, blackmail, flail, wholesale, swale, zale, voicemail, pail, dale, ail, braille, kale, grail, shale, jail, female, upscale, snail, wale, vail, derail, unveil, impale, exhale, yale, surveil, fairytale, inhale, abigail, holy grail, foxtail, quale, cale, gmail, guardrail, ponytail, thumbnail, handrail, brail, greenmail, gael, dwale, gail, coattail, dail, orrell, toenail, resale, monorail, fantail, martingale, airedale, horsetail, clydesdale, countervail, folktale, airmail, soleil, hobnail, biennale, faille, kail, calle, salle, shail.

Adjectives that are often used to describe telltale:
more, little, few, certain, top, great, first, such, same, red, small, characteristic, sure, good, several, awful, upper, single, bottom, most, green.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective telltale:
signs, sign, marks, evidence, mark, symptoms, sound, traces, clues, odor, tracks, bulge, sounds, lines, face, trail, smoke, stains, clue, color, flush, line, light, spots, eyes, features, blush, scars, blood, footprints, holes, click, signature, hole, stain, look, scent, pattern, smell, symptom, heart, bubbles, glow, spot, markings, characteristics, lights, phrase, word, patterns, scar, signals, indications, wake, trace, flash, signal, cloud, streaks, indicators, ring, indication, expression, glint, compass, noise, rash, indicator, fingerprints, patches, prints, feature, evidences, details, flicker, hair, shadows, odors, tears, movements, noises, track, shadow, signatures, wrinkles, letter, red, bruises, streak, shape, rings, aroma, rattle, clouds, plume, crack, dust.

Consonant match to telltale:
tall tale.

Words that sound like telltale:
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