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   Tal·ly

   /ˈtalē/

   

   noun

   • 1. a current score or amount: "that takes his tally to 10 goals in 10 games" Similar totalscorecountsumresult
   • ▪ a record of a score or amount: "I kept a running tally of David's debt on a note above my desk" Similar running totalcountrecordreckoningenumerationregisteraccountrollitemizationlistingcensuspoll
   • ▪ a particular number taken as a group or unit to facilitate counting.
   • ▪ a mark registering a number or amount.
   • ▪ an account kept by means of a tally.
   • 2. a piece of wood scored across with notches for the items of an account and then split into halves, each party keeping one. historical
   • 3. a counterpart or duplicate of something: archaic "the key is so cut as to form a tally with the interior machinery" Similar counterpartmatchmateduplicate
   • 4. a label attached to a plant or tree, or stuck in the ground beside it, that gives information about it, such as its name and class.

   verb

   • 1. agree or correspond: "their signatures should tally with their names on the register" Similar correspondagreeaccordconcurcoincidematchfitbe in agreementbe consistentconformequateharmonizesuitbe in tunedovetailcorrelateparallelinformal:squarejibeOpposite disagreediffer
   • 2. calculate the total number of: "the votes were being tallied with abacuses" Similar countcalculateadd uptotalenumeratecomputefigure outwork outreckonmeasurequantifyratetot up

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting a notched tally stick): from Anglo-Norman French tallie, from Latin talea ‘twig, cutting’. Compare with tail2.

   Derivatives

   • 1. tallier noun

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