different between sell vs telemarketer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?l/
• Rhymes: -?l
• Homophone: cell

Etymology 1

From Middle English sellen, from Old English sellan (“give; give up for money”), from Proto-Germanic *saljan?, from Proto-Indo-European *selh?-. Compare Danish sælge, Swedish sälja, Icelandic selja.

Verb

sell (third-person singular simple present sells, present participle selling, simple past and past participle sold)

1. (transitive, intransitive, ditransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

   • If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor.

2. (ergative) To be sold.

3. To promote a product or service.
   • 2016, "The Fetal Kick Catalyst", The Big Bang Theory

     Howard: You're gonna feel terrible when I'm in a wheelchair. Which, by the way, would fit easily in the back of this award-winning minivan.

     Bernadette: Fine, we'll go to the E.R. Just stop selling me on the van.

     Howard: You're right. It sells itself.

4. To promote a particular viewpoint.

5. To betray for money.
6. (slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)
7. (professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.

Synonyms

• peddle

Antonyms

• buy

Derived terms

Descendants

• Chinese Pidgin English: sellum, ??
• Sranan Tongo: seri

Translations

Noun

sell (plural sells)

1. An act of selling.

   This is going to be a tough sell.

2. An easy task.
3. (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 12

     "Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."

   • 1922, Katherine Mansfield, The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354)

     What a sell for Lena!

See also

• sale

Etymology 2

From French selle, from Latin sella.

Alternative forms

• selle (obsolete)

Noun

sell (plural sells)

1. (obsolete) A seat or stool.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairfax to this entry?)

2. (archaic) A saddle.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:

     turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell, / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].

Etymology 3

From Old Saxon seill or Old Norse seil. Cognate with Dutch zeel (“rope”), German Seil (“rope”).

Noun

sell (plural sells)

1. (regional, obsolete) A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).

Derived terms

• bowsell

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Anagrams

• ELLs, Ells, ells

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?l/

Noun

sell m

1. look, glance

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Cognate to German selbig (“the same (one)”).

Pronoun

sell

1. that one

Determiner

sell

1. that
   • 1954, Albert F. Buffington, A Pennsylvania German grammar, pages 32 and 81:

     sell Haus datt driwwe

     that house over there

     […]

     In sellem alde Glaawe maag en bissel Waahret schtecke.

     In that old belief there may be a bit of truth.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sell.

Inflection

References

• Earl C Haag, Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar (2010), page 204

Scots

Etymology

From Old English sellan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?l/

Verb

sell (third-person singular present sells, present participle sellin, past sellt or sauld, past participle sellt or sauld)

1. To sell.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse sil, a word also recorded in Norway as sel, in Sweden as silder, sälder, standard Swedish sel, from the root of Old Norse seinn and síð.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sel], [sé??]
  • Rhymes: -el, -é?l

Noun

s?ll n (definite singular sellä, definite plural sella or selja)

1. pool, calm water (occurring in the course of a stream)

   dä sellä gjär ’n mil langt

   The calm water at that place stretches for a mile.

English

Etymology

tele- +? marketer

Noun

telemarketer (plural telemarketers)

1. Someone who sells products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls.

Translations