TOLD

Definition: TOLD

TOLD

1. Imp. & p. p. of Tell.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Tell

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TOLD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Told

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Hope

Phrase: nil desperandum; never say die, dum spiro spero, latet scintillula forsan, all is for the best, spero meliora; every cloud has a silver lining; " the wish being father to the thought"; "hope told a flattering tale"; rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis.

Information

Phrase: a little bird told me; I heard it through the grapevine.

Obedience

Verb: be -obedient; Adjective: obey, bear obedience to; submit; comply, answer the helm, come at one's call; do one's bidding, do what one is told, do suit and service; attend to orders, serve faithfully.

Unmeaningness

Empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil; "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal."

Crosswords: TOLD

Danish (customs), Hungarian (to splice).

As I told Lady Freeze when I pulled her plug, this is a one woman show (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

I told you to have the air-conditioning checked (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry)

Have I ever told you I love you (Indecent Proposal; writing credit: Amy Holden Jones)

And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

Her eyes alone told the story of her age, staring out from under her doll-like curls, with a questioning that will one day need an answer (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Nobody told me there'd be days like these (Nobody Told Me; performing artist: John Lennon)

I never told you I think you're hot (You Should've Told Me; performing artist: Kelly Price)

And have I told you lately that I love you (HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY; performing artist: Rod Stewart)

Mama told me not to come (Mama Told Me (Not to Come); performing artist: Three Dog Night)

I must have told you a thousand (Duck And Run; performing artist: 3 Doors Down)

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words. (references; author: Woody Allen)

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told (references; author: unknown)

Sleeping on the job: They told me at the blood bank that this might happen. (references; author: unknown)

Don't be angry at a friend who told your secret, for neither could you keep it to yourself. (references; author: unknown)

The Sexiest Story Ever Told (1973)

I Told You So (1970)

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

Or The Maddest Story Ever Told Spider Baby (1964)

Lies My Father Told Me (1960)

Mama Told Me (Not To Come) (performing artist: Three Dog Night)

Nobody Told Me (performing artist: John Lennon)

You Should've Told Me (performing artist: Kelly Price)

I've Told Every Little Star (performing artist: Linda Scott)

Have I Told You Lately (performing artist: Rod Stewart)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• No One Told the Aardvark (reference)

• The Abbot and I: As Told by Josie the Cat (reference)

• If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Ceos and Other Smart Executives Share Wisdom They Wish They'd Been Told 25 Years Ago (reference)

• Conversations With Animals: Cherished Messages and Memories As Told by an Animal Communicator (reference)

• Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Greatest Story Ever Told (reference)

• Whitney Houston - Fine/If I Told You That (DVD Single) (reference)

• God Told Me To (reference)

• The Greatest Story Ever Told (Special Edition) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Have I Ever Told You (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

ORCA signal in Taku Inlet Told tourists in area that signals were native hieroglyphics Signal made by crew off of WESTDAHL. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Gen. Michael E. Ryan, Air Force chief of staff, told members of Congress Sept. 27, the Air Force needs $20 to $30 billion a year to solve its readiness challenges. He cited operations tempo, past underfunding of spares, aging infrastructure and aircraft a.

Then he told me he hoped I would pick out a wife for Peter --. Credit: Library of Congress.

I'm sorry a son of mine, she said with dignity, had to be told how to act with his mother. Credit: Library of Congress.

Who stole the tarts?] "They told me that you had been to her, and mentioned me to him ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Why didn't you think of that? All you ever told 'em is they've got to pay more. / Berryman. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Klondike--washing done and fortunes told, Dawson City. Credit: Library of Congress.

Japanese-American volunteers. This is the Army, Shuichi "Pete" Sakamoto, surveyor and civil engineer, and Bill Shiramizu of Hanamaulu, are told by Captain C.J. White, commanding officer of the provisional company of AJA (Americans of Japanese ancestry) vo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Kitchen with stove bought last winter from Denver salesman. Great Western Sugar Company's beet sugar workers colony at Hudson, Colorado. The housewife says, "The man told me it would save its cost in food, but the roof leaks so bad it's getting all rusted. Credit: Library of Congress.

France has her fortune told. (The French press is speculating on a new grouping of the powers). Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We are told by some, that the English monarchy is founded in the Norman conquest, and that our princes have thereby a title to absolute dominion: which if it were true, (as by the history it appears otherwise) and that William had a right to make war on this island; yet his dominion by conquest could reach no farther than to the Saxons and Britons, that were then inhabitants of this country. (Second Treatise of Government)

The President has told you that it is his wish, as I am sure it is yours, that I should have full liberty to give my true and faithful counsel in these anxious and baffling times. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He told her the news

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear

I told him my name quite gently, for he was much too small to be angry with

Scrooge did as he was told, and held it fast

His hearers could not rest until they had told one another of what each knew better than he could tell or hear

Jean Valjean could not have told.

I told you I had no money

That the Earl of Richmond Is with a mighty power landed at Milford Is colder tidings, yet they must be told.

And as the worlds moved westward, rules became laws, although no one told the families

Next I saw Hannibal passing the Alps, who told me he had not a drop of vinegar in his camp

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Unless your doctor has told you otherwise, eat potassium-rich foods. (references)

If you are told you are infected, notify all your sex partners immediately. (references)

Some may have to be told such basics as the fact that cancer is not contagious. (references)

Business

Chinese companies have been told to make good use of the time before 2005 to develop their own capabilities. (references)

We were told repeatedly that longer and more favorable credit terms were the determining factor in recent purchases. (references)

We were also told repeatedly that U.S. firms suffer somewhat from having a very large domestic market in the U.S. that permits them to ignore the export market when U.S. sales are strong. (references)

Children

Ghana

Students reportedly told the school administration, including the headmistress, about the assaults, but they were rebuffed and no action was taken; the teacher has not been arrested. (references)

Afghanistan

The Taliban told the Special Rapporteur in 1999 that primary education was available to girls between the ages of 6 and 10 and that such education was provided in mosque schools under the Ministry of Religious Affairs. (references)

Philippines

In September a former NPA member, recruited at age 13 and carrying a weapon by the time she was 15, told reporters that the NPA had deceived her into believing that the Government was "nothing but evil." A 12-year-old former NPA member said that he cooperated with the NPA against his will because "I feared for my family, they said they would skin them alive." According to domestic and international NGO's, the MILF recruited children as young as 12 years of age to serve as reserve forces. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cameroon

Government officials told Radio Star's promoters to file their own applications. (references)

Malaysia

In some instances, persons were told to disband immediately or face police action. (references)

Macau

The incident ended peacefully when a plainclothes police officer told the Falun Gong adherents to leave. (references)

Economic History

Yemen

Others on the list of 16 were told informally they could return to take advantageof the amnesty, but most remained outside Yemen. (references)

Vietnam

The international community has told Vietnamese leaders that the situation calls for a bold new round of structural economic reforms. (references)

Malaysia

The plan expanded on an earlier, controversial, directed merger program under which domestic institutions had been told to merge under six pre-selected anchor banks. (references)

Human Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

Billon told his father and leaders of the RDR about the plot. (references)

Mexico

The family was told that Escamilla hanged himself in his cell. (references)

Iran

Ganji told the court that he was beaten and tortured in prison. (references)

Indigenous People

Bangladesh

After their safe and peaceful release on March 17, one of the hostages told a newspaper reporter that one of his abductors had confided that the motive was not political but rather, they wanted money "for the welfare of Chakma people." On June 23, a Bengali truck driver in Khagrachhari District in the Chittagong Hill Tracts was murdered. (references)

Minorities

Vietnam

The Government also told ethnic Kinh officials that they must learn the language of the locality in which they are working. (references)

Niger

Upon notifying authorities, the missionaries were told that, while it was within their rights to be there, the local police could not ensure their safety. (references)

Political Rights

Malaysia

In July 1999, a government minister told Parliament that the money only was given to ruling coalition Members of Parliament because it came from the Government. (references)

Ethiopia

There were credible reports that during the 2000 national elections citizens who tried to register to vote were told by government personnel that they had to prove their citizenship in order to register; under the law only citizens can vote. (references)

Women

India

The youth told police that he suspected the woman caused his father's prolonged illness by sorcery. (references)

Worker Rights

Greece

Of female prostitutes, 75 percent are not told why they are being brought to Greece. (references)

Poland

Many are unaware and are not told that under Polish law prostitution is not a crime. (references)

Brazil

In other cases, women are told that they are to work as nannies or as household servants. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "TOLD": a little bird told me ♦ All told ♦ be told ♦ being told ♦ have you told him? ♦ i have already told you that ♦ it was she who told me ♦ when all is told. Additional references.

Beginning with "TOLD": told-and, told-you-so.

Ending with "TOLD": oft-told, re-told.

Containing "TOLD": i-told-so-you-so, i-told-you-so.

Arabic 

‏مروي (related), ‏قال (go, said, say, speak, state, talk, tell, utter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

казан (caldron, copper, pot-still, said, tank, vat). (various references)

Chinese 

知道 (Knew, know, knowing, known, Tell, telling). (various references)

Czech

min.èas i příè.min. od tell. (various references)

Farsi 

گفته شده (Said). (various references)

Finnish

saada tietää (be informed, be told, gather, get to know, hear, learn), olen kuullut luotettavalta taholta (I am reliably infinformed, I am responsibly told, I have it on good authority), minut käskettiin sisälle (I was told to come in), kuulla (be told, hear, learn), kaikkiaan (all told, in all, taken all together), hän sai kuulla totuuden (he was told the truth). (various references)

French

racontées, racontée, raconté, racontèrent, raconta. (various references)

German

gesagt (said), erzählte (narrated, prosed, recounted), berichtete (chronicled, reported). (various references)

Greek 

είπα (said), αόρ. του tell, αφηγήθηκα. (various references)

Hebrew 

להאמר (be told). (various references)

Hungarian

tud (can, know, one can, to ken, to savvy, to tell, wit, wot), utasít (direct, instruct, order, to condition, to direct, to instruct, to tell), mondta (that is what he said or words to that effect), mondott (said), mond (had, have, say, tell, to have, to mind one's p's and q's, to pronounce, to say a few words, to snarl, to tell, to term), megmond (gave, given, quoth, to give, to quote, to tell), hatása van (to pull, to take effect, to tell), eredménye van (to tell), elmesél (to tell, to unfold, unfold), elbeszél (narrate, recount, relate, tell, to recount, to relate, to tell, to unfold, unfold). (various references)

Indonesian

pelipur-lara (consoler, tale told for amusement). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

伺う (to ask, to be told, to hear, to inquire, to visit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しめて (all told, in all), うかがう (to ask, to be told, to hear, to implore, to inquire, to see the situation, to visit), うけたまわる (to be told, to hear, to know), いったって (even if I told you), いいなり (doing as one is told, yes man), けんりょう (admission fee, fee for having one's fortune told). (various references)

Korean 

말하는 (said, spoken, Talked). (various references)

Manx

troiddit (chided, scolded, told off). (various references)

Pig Latin

oldtay.(various references)

Portuguese

falaram-me (they told me). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

falaram-me (they told me). (various references)

Romanian

trecut şi participiu trecut de la tell. (various references)

Russian 

сообщать (acquaint, advise s, announce, communicate, communicate to, convey, impart, inform, lend, let ~ know, let us know, report, say [], says, send word, tell, telling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proš. vreme i particip od tell. (various references)

Spanish

pret y pp de tell. (various references)

Swedish

berättat, berättade. (various references)

Turkish

yekun olarak (all told), söylenmek (be said, be told, chide, complain, fret and fume, grouch, grouse, grumble, make a noise, murmur, repine, snarl, snarl at), söylenme (being told, complaining, grouch, grumble, murmur, snarl). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "TOLD": foretold, outtold, retold, untold. (additional references)

Misspellings

"TOLD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atold, dold, jold, kold, nold, Ntolo, tald, teild, thol, thold, tild, tildy, tilv, tl, tlot, tlt, todi, todt, toid, Toida, tolde, tolds, tole, Tollo, tolm, tolu, toly, tond, tondu, tood, toole, toord, tord, torda, toud, tulo, twould, vtol, Yold, zold. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dolt.

-1 letter: dol, dot, lot, old, tod.

-2 letters: do, lo, od, to.

+1 letter: dolts, dotal, toled.

+2 letters: bolted, dalton, diglot, dottel, dottle, drylot, jolted, lofted, looted, lotted, louted, molted, oldest, retold, stoled, stolid, tholed, toddle, toiled, toledo, tolled, toluid, tooled, untold.

+3 letters: bloated, blotted, boldest, bottled, clothed, clotted, clouted, coldest, cotidal, couldst, daltons, delator, deltoid, dicotyl, diglots, dilator, dilutor, diplont, dithiol, doltish, dottels, dottily, dottles, dottrel, doublet, droplet, drylots, feedlot, floated, flouted, foldout, footled, gloated, glouted, goldest, holdout, jostled, lentoid, leotard, letdown, lithoed, lithoid, loathed, lobated, located, loudest, mottled, moulted, notedly, oldster, outduel, outlaid, outland, outplod, outsold, outtold, piloted, plotted, plotzed, sandlot, slotted, solated, stooled, styloid, tabloid, tadpole, taloned, telford, tenfold, toddled, toddler, toddles, toehold, toggled, toledos, tolidin, toluide, toluids, tootled, toppled, totaled, tousled, touzled, toweled, trifold, troland, trolled, twofold, voluted, woodlot, wouldst.