1. (noun)run, tally a score in baseball made by a runnertouching 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 ascendingorder "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"
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"
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
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.
Definitions of tally 
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
