Tally

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A reckoning or score.
  • n. A stick on which notches are made to keep a count or score.
  • n. A stick on which notches were formerly made to keep a record of amounts paid or owed.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A label, ticket, or piece of metal or wood used for identification or classification, especially in gardens and greenhouses.
  • n. Something that is very similar or corresponds to something else; a double or counterpart.
  • n. Nautical A metal plate attached to a ship's machinery and bearing instructions for its use.
  • v. To reckon or count.
  • v. To record by making a mark.
  • v. Sports & Games To score (a point or goal) in a game or contest.
  • v. To label, as with a ticket, for identification or classification.
  • v. To cause to correspond or agree.
  • verb-intransitive. To be alike; correspond or agree: The report tallies with your description of the accident.
  • verb-intransitive. To keep score.
  • verb-intransitive. Sports & Games To score a point or goal in a game or contest.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Used as a mild intensifier: very (almost exclusively used by the upper classes).
  • n. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number;
  • n. Later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
  • n. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate.
  • n. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
  • n. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
  • n. A tally shop.
  • v. To count something
  • v. To record something by making marks
  • v. To make things correspond or agree with each other
  • v. To keep score
  • v. To correspond or agree
  • ad. In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
  • n. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.
  • n. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
  • n. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally.
  • n. A tally shop. See Tally shop, below.
  • v. To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit.
  • v. To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
  • verb-intransitive. To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a tally; to score.
  • ad. Stoutly; with spirit.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An Italian: as, the Tallies are working on the railroad. Dialect Notes, II. vi.
  • n. A piece of wood on which notches or scores are cut to mark numbers, as in keeping an account or giving a receipt; loosely, anything on which a score or an account is kept.
  • n. A score kept upon a notched stick or by other means; a reckoning; an account; a record as of debit and credit or of the score in a game.
  • n. A mark made to register a certain number of objects; one of a series of consecutive marks by which a number of objects are recorded or checked; also, a number as thus recorded; a number serving as a unit of computation.
  • n. A ticket or label of wood, metal, or the like used as a means of identification; specifically, in horticulture, such a ticket bearing either a number referring to a catalogue, or the name of the plant with which it is connected.
  • n. By extension, anything corresponding to another as duplicate or counterpart.
  • n. An abbreviation of tally-shop.
  • To mark or record on a tally; score; register.
  • To reckon; count; sum: with up.
  • To score with corresponding notches; hence, to cause to conform; suit; adapt; match.
  • To parallel; do or return in kind.
  • Nautical, to put aft, as the sheets or lower corners of the mainsail and foresail.
  • To correspond, as one part of a tally to the other; conform; agree.
  • In basset, faro, etc., to act as banker.
  • n. Same as tally-ho.
  • Same as tally-ho.
  • In a tall manner.
  • Stoutly; boldly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
  • v. gain points in a game
  • v. be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
  • v. keep score, as in games
  • v. determine the sum of
  • n. a bill for an amount due
  • n. the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
  • Verb Form
    tallied    tallies    tallying    tallys   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    record    enter    put down    count    numerate    number    enumerate    bill    invoice    account   
    Variant
    tallied   
    Form
    tallied    tallying   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    match    mate    suit    correspond    score    stoutly    high    straggle    check    brand   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Allie    Cali    Challis    Halle    Halley    Hally    Lally    Sallee    Sallie    Sally   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    stepsister