Tally
['tælɪ] or ['tæli]
Definition
(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.
Edited by Ivan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mate, match, counterpart.
v. n. Match, agree, accord, conform, correspond, harmonize, square, comport, cohere, quadrate, coincide, chime in, fall in.
Editor: Mamie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Match, suit, accord, correspond, fit, harmonize, agree, coincide, comport
ANT:{[Piffw]?}, disagree, disaccord, miscompose
Typist: Waldo
Definition
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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Examples
- They reckoned time by months, and in the earlier period kept a ru de tally of the years by driving nails into a statue of Janus, the ancient sun-god. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We had a man who kept tally, and when the time came for one to sleep, he was notified. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was in the early temples that the records and tallies of events were kept and that writing began. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 1696, tallies had been at forty, and fifty, and sixty, per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The blank space, to have exactly tallied with his birth certificate, ought to have occurred in the July part of the register. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I can't say that my experience tallied with theirs, in this respect. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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