Definitions of Tally [ˈtæl i]

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Definition of 'Tally'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tally
an account; reckoning.

2.  tally
a stick of wood with notches cut to indicate the amount of a debt or payment.

3.  tally
anything on which a score or account is kept.

4.  tally
a notch or mark made on or in a tally.

5.  tally
a number recorded, as of points in a game.

6.  tally
a number of objects used as a unit of computation.

7.  tally
anything corresponding to another thing as a counterpart or duplicate.

8. (v.t.) tally
to mark on a tally; record.

9.  tally
to count; reckon.

10.  tally
to cause to correspond or agree.

11. (v.i.) tally
to correspond; agree:
Both accounts tally.

12.  tally
to score a point or goal, as in a game.

Etymology: (1275–1325; (n.) ME taly < AF

Definition of 'Tally'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) run, 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"

2. (noun) reckoning, tally
a bill for an amount due

3. (verb) count, counting, numeration, enumeration, reckoning, tally
the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
"the counting continued for several hours"

4. (verb) match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree
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"

5. (verb) score, hit, tally, rack up
gain points in a game
"The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"

6. (verb) tally, chalk up
keep score, as in games

7. (verb) total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up
determine the sum of
"Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"

Definition of 'Tally'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Tally
stoutly; with spirit

2. (noun) Tally
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

3. (noun) Tally
hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate

4. (noun) Tally
one thing made to suit another; a match; a mate

5. (noun) Tally
a notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game

6. (noun) Tally
a tally shop. See Tally shop, below

7. (noun) Tally
to score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit

8. (noun) Tally
to check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard

9. (verb) Tally
to be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match

10. (verb) Tally
to make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game

Definitions of 'Tally'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. Tally
a notched stick used in commercial and Exchequer transactions when writing was yet a rare accomplishment; the marks, of varying breadth, indicated sums paid by a purchaser; the stick was split longitudinally, and one-half retained by the seller and one by the buyer as a receipt. As a means of receipt for sums paid into the Exchequer, the tally was in common use until 1782, and was not entirely abolished till 1812. Tally System, a mode of credit-dealing by which a merchant provides a customer with goods, and receives in return weekly or monthly payments to account.

Translation of 'Tally'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: an account He kept a tally of all the work he did.
Afrikaans: rekening	Arabic: سِجِل الحَوادِث اليَوْمِي	Bulgarian: отчет
Brazilian: registo	Czech: evidence	German: die Rechnung
Danish: regnskab	Greek: λογαριασμός	Spanish: cuenta (llevar la cuenta)
Estonian: arvestus	Farsi: حساب	Finnish: luku
French: compte	Hebrew: תוֹאֵם	Hindi: लेखा
Croatian: račun, obračun	Hungarian: elszámolás	Indonesian: hitungan
Icelandic: skrá, listi	Italian: contrassegno	Japanese: 記録
Korean: 계산	Lithuanian: apskaita	Latvian: uzskaite
Malay: catatan	Dutch: aantekening	Norwegian: regnskap, (opp)telling
Polish: zapis, rejestr, ewidencja	Portuguese: registo	Romanian: socoteală
Russian: учёт	Slovak: evidencia	Slovenian: račun
Serbian: evidencija	Swedish: [kontroll]räkning	Thai: การบันทึกจำนวน
Turkish: hesap tutma,çetele	Taiwanese: 記錄，記帳	Ukrainian: рахунок
Urdu: حساب	Vietnamese: bảng liệt kê	Chinese: 记录，记帐
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