teller
teller
Definition
teller (tel′ər)
noun
- a person who tells (a story, etc.); narrator
- a person who counts; specif.,
- one who counts votes, as in a legislative body
- a bank clerk who pays out or receives money
Teller
Definition
Tel·ler (tel′ər)
Teller, Edward 1908-2003; U.S. nuclear physicist, born in Hungary
teller
Synonyms
teller
n.
teller
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- tale: About a teller of tall tales in the pub.
- story: There he gained a reputation as a great teller of stories.
- story: We're called to be salt, called to be light, called to be tellers of the story of Jesus Christ.
Converse of object
- appoint: In the event of a ballot being held the chairman shall appoint tellers who nevertheless may vote.
- become: One of the flint knappers becomes a story teller through contact with a woman from outside the community who comes to live with them.
- give: A robber in Panorama City, Cal. , gave a teller a note saying, " I have a gun.
Adjective modifier
- automated: Not to use the Card to withdraw funds through the automated teller in excess of the daily limit we from time to time prescribe.
- automatic: Automatic tellers, too, require programmers and technicians, and their salaries are four times what bank tellers receive.
- great: He is the greatest story teller in the world!
- professional: That is what makes storytelling such a powerful art far more important than the final artistic polish of a professional teller.
- good: To be a good teller, you need to be a good listener.
- many: The second telling was fast, throwaway and unembellished, as Pickering was up against competition from many other tellers.
Modifies a noun
- machine: For our daily cash, we trust the banks or automated teller machines to deliver.
- window: The banks DO check your CDL number as well as date of birth at the teller window.
Noun used with modifier
- fortune: Open the fortune teller each way, counting up to the number they chose.
- sheriff: SHERIFF TELLER: They can detect every flash of lightning on this planet.
- story: Then the story teller began to spin his magic yarn.
- Gypsy: Estrella, ( O'Hara ), a gypsy fortune teller at a carnival, transforms her clients into zombies by throwing acid on them.
- bank: Police say Bass is accused of passing a note to a bank teller saying ` ` don't be stupid.
- master: Nakata says he considers himself more a ' celluloid craftsman ' than a master story teller.
