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Tally   /tˈæli/   Listen
Tally

noun
(pl. tallies)
1.
A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.  Synonym: run.  "Their first tally came in the 3rd inning"
2.
A bill for an amount due.  Synonym: reckoning.
3.
The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order.  Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, numeration, reckoning.
verb
(past & past part. tallied; pres. part. tallying)
1.
Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics.  Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match.  "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check" , "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"
2.
Gain points in a game.  Synonyms: hit, rack up, score.  "He hit a home run" , "He hit .300 in the past season"
3.
Keep score, as in games.  Synonym: chalk up.
4.
Determine the sum of.  Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tot, tot up, total, tote up.



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"Tally" Quotes from Famous Books



... climbed to the top of the sky. The man worked on. Pan by pan, he went up the stream, the tally of results ...
— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London
... o' my heart on the old Pass By, He've a-took out o' me all the satisfaction He's likely to get. 'Tisn' like the man that built a new Jericho an' set up the foundations thereof 'pon his first-born an' the gates 'pon his youngest. The cases don't tally; for my son an' gran'son went down together in th' old boat, an' I got ...
— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Most of us managed to find room in our personal gear when sledging for some book which did not weigh much and yet would last. Scott took some Browning on the Polar Journey, though I only saw him reading it once; Wilson took Maud and In Memoriam; Bowers always had so many weights to tally and observations to record on reaching camp that I feel sure he took no reading matter. Bleak House was the most successful book I ever took away sledging, though a volume of poetry was useful, because it gave one something ...
— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard
... Tally cards may represent flags or shields with red strings or ribbons for the ladies and blue for the men, and on the reverse side write the name of the fort and company, as "Fort Sumter, Company A" and "Fort Sumter, Company B" instead of table 1, ...
— Games For All Occasions • Mary E. Blain
... Everhard and Squire Darnel should alternately represent the place in parliament. They agreed to this compromise for their mutual convenience; but they were never heartily reconciled. Their political principles did not tally; and their wives looked upon each other as rivals in fortune and magnificence. So that there was no intercourse between them, thof they lived in the same neighbourhood. On the contrary, in all disputes, they constantly headed the opposite parties. Sir Everhard ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett


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