Tally

['tælɪ] or ['tæli]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) keep score, as in games.

編輯:莉齐--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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; as, to make or earn a tally in a game.

(n.) A tally shop. See Tally shop, below.

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

(n.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.

(v. i.) To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.

(v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.

(a.) Stoutly; with spirit.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. Mate, match, counterpart.

v. n. Match, agree, accord, conform, correspond, harmonize, square, comport, cohere, quadrate, coincide, chime in, fall in.

整理:玛米

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Match, suit, accord, correspond, fit, harmonize, agree, coincide, comport

ANT:{[Piffw]?}, disagree, disaccord, miscompose

校對:沃尔多

解釋/意思:

n. a stick cut or notched to match another stick used to mark numbers or keep accounts by—(down to the beginning of the 19th century these were used in England for keeping accounts in Exchequer answering the double purpose of receipts and public records): anything made to suit another:—pl. Tall′ies.—v.t. to score with corresponding notches: to make to fit.—v.i. to correspond: to suit:—pa.t. and pa.p. tall′ied.—ns. Tall′ier one who keeps a tally; Tall′yman one who keeps a tally-shop: one who lives with a woman without marriage; Tall′yshop a shop where goods are sold to be paid by instalments the seller having one account-book which tallies with the buyer's; Tall′y-sys′tem -trade a mode of dealing by which dealers furnish certain articles on credit to their customers upon an agreement for the payment of the stipulated price by certain weekly or monthly instalments.—Live tally to cohabit without marriage.

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