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tal·ly
(tăl′ē)n. pl. tal·lies
1.
a. A reckoning, score, or amount: What was the final tally of votes?
b. A record of a reckoning, score, or amount: She keeps a tally of the miles she runs each week.
2. The act of scoring a point or goal in a game or contest: took the lead on his tally in the second half.
3.
a. A stick on which notches are made to keep a count or score.
b. A stick on which notches were formerly made to keep a record of amounts paid or owed.
4. A mark used in recording a number of acts or objects, most often in series of five, consisting of four vertical lines canceled diagonally or horizontally by a fifth line.
5. A label, ticket, or piece of metal or wood used for identification or classification, especially in gardens and greenhouses.
6. Archaic Something that is very similar or corresponds to something else; a double or counterpart.
v. tal·lied, tal·ly·ing, tal·lies
v.tr.
1.
a. To reckon or count. Often used with up: tallied up the bill.
b. To make a record of (an amount, for example).
2. To score (a point or goal) in a game or contest.
3. To label, as with a ticket, for identification or classification.
v.intr.
1. To be alike; correspond or agree: The report tallies with your description of the accident.
2. To keep a record, as of a score in a game.
3. To score a point or goal in a game or contest.
[Middle English taly, from Anglo-Norman tallie, from Medieval Latin tallia, from Latin tālea, stick.]
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tally
(ˈtælɪ)vb, -lies, -lying or -lied
1. (intr) to correspond one with the other: the two stories don't tally.
2. (tr) to supply with an identifying tag
3. (intr) to keep score
4. (tr) obsolete to record or mark
n, pl -lies
5. any record of debit, credit, the score in a game, etc
6. a ticket, label, or mark, used as a means of identification, classification, etc
7. a counterpart or duplicate of something, such as the counterfoil of a cheque
8. a stick used (esp formerly) as a record of the amount of a debt according to the notches cut in it
9. a notch or mark cut in or made on such a stick
10. a mark or number of marks used to represent a certain number in counting
11. (Agriculture) Austral and NZ the total number of sheep shorn by one shearer in a specified period of time
[C15: from Medieval Latin tālea, from Latin: a stick; related to Latin tālus heel]
ˈtallier n
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tal•ly
(ˈtæl i)n., pl. -lies, n.
1. an account; reckoning.
2. a stick of wood with notches cut to indicate the amount of a debt or payment.
3. anything on which a score or account is kept.
4. a notch or mark made on or in a tally.
5. a number recorded, as of points in a game.
6. a number of objects used as a unit of computation.
7. anything corresponding to another thing as a counterpart or duplicate.
v.t. 8. to mark on a tally; record.
9. to count; reckon.
10. to cause to correspond or agree.
v.i. 11. to correspond; agree: Both accounts tally.
12. to score a point or goal, as in a game.
[1275–1325; (n.) Middle English taly < Anglo-French tallie < Medieval Latin talia, for Latin tālea cutting (from a plant), rod]
tal′li•er, n.
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Tally
a number, group, or series, 1674; a unit of measure, sometimes, five dozen objects.Examples: tally of cabbage, 1891; of cauliflowers, 1883; of hops, 1868; of marrows, 1891; of squirary (young squires), 1327; of turnips (five dozen bunches), 1851.
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tally
Past participle: tallied
Gerund: tallying
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| Noun | 1. |  tally - a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning"score - the act of scoring in a game or sport; "the winning score came with less than a minute left to play" earned run - a run that was not scored as the result of an error by the other team unearned run - a run that was scored as a result of an error by the other team rbi, run batted in - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" |
| 2. | tally - a bill for an amount due | |
| 3. |  tally - the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours"investigating, investigation - the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically blood count - the act of estimating the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample countdown - counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle) miscount - an inaccurate count poll - the counting of votes (as in an election) recount - an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election sperm count - the act of estimating the number of spermatozoa in an ejaculate | |
| Verb | 1. | tally - be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" consist - be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous; "Desires are to be satisfied only so far as consists with an approved end" look - accord in appearance with; "You don't look your age!" answer - match or correspond; "The drawing of the suspect answers to the description the victim gave" coincide - be the same; "our views on this matter coincided" align - be or come into adjustment with correlate - to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation; "Do these facts correlate?" parallel - be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours" twin, duplicate, parallel - duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse" square - be compatible with; "one idea squares with another" bear out, underpin, corroborate, support - support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence" resemble - appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to; "She resembles her mother very much"; "This paper resembles my own work" conform to, fit, meet - satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" homologize - be homologous; "A person's arms homologize with a quadruped's forelimbs" accord, concord, fit in, harmonise, harmonize, consort, agree - go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded" pattern - form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before" adhere - be compatible or in accordance with; "You must adhere to the rules" |
| 2. | tally - gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" par - make a score (on a hole) equal to par shoot - score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal" convert - score (a spare) convert - complete successfully; "score a penalty shot or free throw" convert - score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone; "Smith converted and his team won" homer - hit a home run gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win, gain, advance - obtain advantages, such as points, etc.; "The home team was gaining ground"; "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference" kick - make a goal; "He kicked the extra point after touchdown" eagle - shoot in two strokes under par hole up - score a hole in one ace - score an ace against; "He aced his opponents" walk - obtain a base on balls | |
| 3. | tally - keep score, as in games | |
| 4. |  tally - determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"add together, add - make an addition by combining numbers; "Add 27 and 49, please!" |
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tally
noun
verb
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
tally
noun1. A noting of items one by one:
Archaic: tale.
2. The total number of points made by a contestant, side, or team in a game or contest:
1. To note (items) one by one so as to get a total:
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Translations
سِجِل الحَوادِث اليَوْمِيَّهيَتلائم، يَتَوافَق
evidenceshodovat se
regnskab
skrá, lististemma
apskaitaneprieštarauti
sakristsaskanētuzskaite
evidencia
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
tally
[ˈtæli] vi (= correspond) [two things] → concorder, se recouper
We've checked their stories and they don't quite tally → Nous avons vérifié leurs versions et elles ne concordent pas tout à fait., Nous avons vérifié leurs versions et elles ne se recoupent pas tout à fait.
to tally with sth → concorder avec qch
We've checked their stories and they don't quite tally → Nous avons vérifié leurs versions et elles ne concordent pas tout à fait., Nous avons vérifié leurs versions et elles ne se recoupent pas tout à fait.
to tally with sth → concorder avec qch
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
tally
n
(Hist, = stick) → Kerbholz nt
vi → übereinstimmen; (reports etc also) → sich decken; they don’t tally → sie stimmen nicht (miteinander) überein
vt (also tally up) → zusammenrechnen or -zählen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
tally
[ˈtælɪ]1. n (count) → conto, conteggio; (running total) → totale m; (score) → punteggio
to keep a tally of sth → tener il conto di qc
to keep a tally of sth → tener il conto di qc
2. vi to tally (with) → corrispondere (a)
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
tally
(ˈtӕli) – plural ˈtallies – noun an account. He kept a tally of all the work he did.
verb (often with with) to agree or match. Their stories tally; His story tallies with mine.
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