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Teller

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Tel·ler  (tlr), Edward 1908-2003.
Hungarian-born American physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb and provided the theoretical framework for the hydrogen bomb.

tell·er  (tlr)
n.
1. One who tells: a teller of tall tales.
2.
a. A bank employee who receives and pays out money.
b. An automated teller machine.
3. A person appointed to count votes in a legislative assembly.

teller·ship n.

teller [ˈtɛlə]
n
1. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) another name for cashier1 [2]
2. (Law / Parliamentary Procedure) a person appointed to count votes in a legislative body, assembly, etc.
3. a person who tells; narrator
tellership  n

Teller [ˈtɛlə]
n
(Biographies / Teller, Edward (1908 M, USnational of birth: Hungarian, SCIENCE: physicist) Edward. born 1908, US nuclear physicist, born in Hungary: a major contributor to the development of the hydrogen bomb (1952)
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Teller - United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003)
2.teller - an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)
canvasser - a person who takes or counts votes
functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office
3.Teller - an employee of a bank who receives and pays out moneyteller - an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money
banker - a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank
4.Teller - someone who tells a storyteller - someone who tells a story            
anecdotist, raconteur - a person skilled in telling anecdotes
fabulist - a person who tells or invents fables
griot - a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village
speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer, utterer - someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims"
Translations
teller [ˈteləʳ] N
1. [of story] → narrador(a) m/f
2. (US, Scot) (in bank) → cajero/a m/f; (at election) → escrutador(a) m/f

teller [ˈtɛlər] n (in bank)caissier/ière m/f, guichetier/ière m/f

teller
n
(in bank) → Kassierer(in) m(f)
(= vote counter)Stimmenauszähler(in) m(f)
(of story)Erzähler(in) m(f)
(esp US: = cash machine) → Geldautomat m

teller [ˈtɛləʳ] n
a. (of story) → narratore/trice
b. (person, in bank) → cassiere/a; (at election) → scrutatore/trice

Teller رَاوِي vypravěč kasserer Erzähler ταμίας narrador kertoja raconteur bankovni blagajnik cassiere 話し手 이야기하는 사람 verteller forteller narrator narrador рассказчик kassör ผู้เล่านิทาน anlatıcı người kể chuyện 出纳员


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But later we begin to care very much indeed what words the story- teller uses, and how he uses them.
While Sir Dinadan was waiting for his turn to enter the lists, he came in there and sat down and began to talk; for he was always making up to me, because I was a stranger and he liked to have a fresh market for his jokes, the most of them having reached that stage of wear where the teller has to do the laughing himself while the other person looks sick.
Neither has it been possible for the writer of it to render the full force of the Zulu idiom nor to convey a picture of the teller.
 
 
 
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