transcription, транскрипция: [ telɪŋ ]
( tellings)
1.
The telling of a story or of something that has happened is the reporting of it to other people.
Herbert sat quietly through the telling of this saga...
N-VAR
2.
If something is telling , it shows the true nature of a person or situation.
How a man shaves may be a telling clue to his age.
= revealing
ADJ
• tell‧ing‧ly
Most tellingly, perhaps, chimpanzees do not draw as much information from the world around them as we do.
ADV : ADV with cl , ADV with v
3.
A telling argument or criticism is a very effective one.
The most telling condemnation of the system was that it failed to fulfil its function.
ADJ : usu ADJ n
4.
You use there’s no telling to introduce a statement when you want to say that it is impossible to know what will happen in a situation.
There’s no telling how long the talks could drag on...
PHRASE : usu PHR wh