Definition of "telling" []

• Having force and producing a striking effect. (adjective)
• Revealing previously unknown information. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And I did it all without a label telling me I needed to Auto-Tune myself, or have Rihanna guest on my album to drive up record sales."
• "The little we do is the label telling us what's happening and we go, That's weird."
• "Francesca peered down at him, her expression telling Zak what he already knew: It was an utterly stupid question."