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tal⋅ly

  [tal-ee] noun, plural -lies, verb, -lied, -ly⋅ing.
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–noun
1. an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
2. Also called tally stick. a stick of wood with notches cut to indicate the amount of a debt or payment, often split lengthwise across the notches, the debtor retaining one piece and the creditor the other.
3. anything on which a score or account is kept.
4. a notch or mark made on or in a tally.
5. a number or group of items recorded.
6. a mark made to register a certain number of items, as four consecutive vertical lines with a diagonal line through them to indicate a group of five.
7. a number of objects serving as a unit of computation.
8. a ticket, label, or mark used as a means of identification, classification, etc.
9. anything corresponding to another thing as a counterpart or duplicate.
–verb (used with object)
10. to mark or enter on a tally; register; record.
11. to count or reckon up.
12. to furnish with a tally or identifying label.
13. to cause to correspond or agree.
–verb (used without object)
14. to correspond, as one part of a tally with the other; accord or agree: Does his story tally with hers?
15. to score a point or make a goal, as in a game.
Origin:
1275–1325; (n.) ME taly < ML talia, var. of L tālea rod, cutting, lit., heel-piece, deriv. of tālus heel; (v.) late ME talyen, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
tal⋅li⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. inventory, count, enumeration. 10. enroll, list. 11. enumerate, calculate.
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tal·ly   (tāl'ē)   
n.   pl. tal·lies
  1. A reckoning or score.
    1. A stick on which notches are made to keep a count or score.
    2. A stick on which notches were formerly made to keep a record of amounts paid or owed.
  3. 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.
  4. A label, ticket, or piece of metal or wood used for identification or classification, especially in gardens and greenhouses.
  5. Something that is very similar or corresponds to something else; a double or counterpart.
  6. Nautical A metal plate attached to a ship's machinery and bearing instructions for its use.
v.   tal·lied, tal·ly·ing, tal·lies

v.   tr.
  1. To reckon or count.
  2. To record by making a mark.
  3. Sports & Games To score (a point or goal) in a game or contest.
  4. To label, as with a ticket, for identification or classification.
  5. To cause to correspond or agree.
v.   intr.
  1. To be alike; correspond or agree: The report tallies with your description of the accident.
  2. To keep score.
  3. Sports & Games To score a point or goal in a game or contest.

[Middle English taly, from Anglo-Norman tallie, from Medieval Latin tallia, from Latin tālea, stick.]
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Tally

Tal"ly\, n.; pl. Tallies. [OE. taile, taille, F. taille a cutting, cut tally, fr. tailler to cut, but influenced probably by taill['e], p. p. of tailler. See Tailor, and cf. Tail a limitation, Taille, Tallage.]

1. 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.

Note: In purshasing and selling, it was once customary for traders to have two sticks, or one stick cleft into two parts, and to mark with a score or notch, on each, the number or quantity of goods delivered, -- the seller keeping one stick, and the purchaser the other. Before the use of writing, this, or something like it, was the only method of keeping accounts; and tallies were received as evidence in courts of justice. In the English exchequer were tallies of loans, one part being kept in the exchequer, the other being given to the creditor in lieu of an obligation for money lent to government.

2. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.

3. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.

They were framed the tallies for each other. --Dryden.

4. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game.

5. A tally shop. See Tally shop, below.

Tally shop, a shop at which goods or articles are sold to customers on account, the account being kept in corresponding books, one called the tally, kept by the buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement. The trade thus regulated is called tally trade. --Eng. Encyc.

To strike tallies, to act in correspondence, or alike. [Obs.] --Fuller.

Tally

Tal"ly\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tallied; p. pr. & vb. n. Tallying.] [Cf. F. tialler to cut. See Tally, n.]

1. To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit.

They are not so well tallied to the present juncture. --Pope.

2. (Naut.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard. --W. C. Russell.

Tally on (Naut.), to dovetail together.

Tally

Tal"ly\, v. i. 1. To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.

I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel. --Addison.

Your idea . . . tallies exactly with mine. --Walpole.

2. To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.

Tally on (Naut.), to man a rope for hauling, the men standing in a line or tail.

Tally

Tal"ly\, adv. [See Tall, a.] Stoutly; with spirit. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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Language Translation for : Tally
Spanish: cuenta (llevar la cuenta), registro,
German: die Rechnung,
Japanese: 記録
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tally  (n.)
1440, "stick marked with notches to indicate amount owed or paid," from Anglo-Fr. tallie (1321), Anglo-L. talea (1189), from M.L. tallia, from L. talea "a cutting, rod, stick" (see tailor, and cf. sense history of score). Meaning "a thing that matches another" first recorded 1651, said to be from practice of splitting a tally lengthwise, debtor and creditor each retaining one of the halves. Sports sense of "a total score" is from 1856. The verb is c.1440, from M.L. talliare "to tax," from tallia.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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