Word: Tally
How to pronounce: ˈtælɪ
Noun
Definitions:
1. A current score or amount.
Example sentences: "That takes his tally to 10 goals in 10 games"
2. A piece of wood scored across with notches for the items of an account and then split into halves, each party keeping one.
Example sentences: "When the deal was finalised, half of the tally stick went to the purchaser, and you kept the other half as a permanent record."
3. A counterpart or duplicate of something.
4. A label attached to a plant or tree, or stuck in the ground beside it, that gives information about it, such as its name and class.
Example sentences: "The tally itself is what is known as the "package label" of the nurserymen, being six inches long, one and one-fourth inches wide, and costing (painted) less than one and one-half dollars a thousand."
Verb
Definitions:
1. Agree or correspond.
Example sentences: "Their signatures should tally with their names on the register"
2. Calculate the total number of.
Example sentences: "The votes were being tallied with abacuses"
Synonyms:
count
score
counting
reckoning
enumeration
sum
tot
match
dovetail
coincide
correspond
conform
accord
agree
Derivations:
tallying
tallied
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Tally in Other Languages...
Spanish: Tally
German: Strichliste
French: Décompte
Italian: Tally
Turkish: Saymak
