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Definition of Tally

1. Noun. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely. "Their first tally came in the 3rd inning"

2. Verb. Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics. "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"

3. Noun. A bill for an amount due.

4. Verb. Gain points in a game. "He hit .300 in the past season"

5. Noun. The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order. "The counting continued for several hours"

6. Verb. Keep score, as in games.

7. Verb. Determine the sum of. "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"

Definition of Tally

1. 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.

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

3. v. i. To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.

4. adv. Stoutly; with spirit.

Definition of Tally

1. to count [v -LIED, -LYING, -LIES] - See also: count

Medical Definition of Tally

1. Origin: OE. Taile, taille, F. Taille a cutting, cut tally, fr. Tailler to cut, but influenced probably by taille, 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. 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. To strike tallies, to act in correspondence, or alike. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tally

tallols tallot tallots tallow tallow tallowed tallowing tallows tallowy tallow oil

tallow soap talls Tallulah Bankhead tallwood tally (current term) tally (current term) tallyho tallyhoed tallyhoing tallyhos

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