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| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : tal-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtæl i |
Definition of tally
Origin :- mid-15c., "stick marked with notches to indicate amount owed or paid," from Anglo-French tallie (early 14c.), Anglo-Latin talea (late 12c.), from Medieval Latin tallia, from Latin talea "a cutting, rod, stick" (see tailor, and cf. sense history of score). Meaning "a thing that matches another" first recorded 1650s, 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.
- noun count, record
- verb add up; count, record
- The dates, circumstances, all tally in the minutest particulars.
- Extract from : « Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. » by Charles James Lever
- Neither did our conduct at all tally with the reputation that preceded us.
- Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever
- It had entirely failed to tally with his expectations of it.
- Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett
- This startling fact did not tally somehow with the idea Davidson had of Heyst.
- Extract from : « Victory » by Joseph Conrad
- It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul.
- Extract from : « The Moon and Sixpence » by W. Somerset Maugham
- Success requires that the counting should tally with the pointing.
- Extract from : « The Measurement of Intelligence » by Lewis Madison Terman
- Anthony unearthed a college chum who was tally man at a sawmill.
- Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Salem » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
- The young manager watched the operations and took a tally of the props.
- Extract from : « The Pit Prop Syndicate » by Freeman Wills Crofts
- To make sure that Tally was really dead I got down into the boat.
- Extract from : « The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton » by Louis Becke
- This tally did not cover Indians, of whom he had slain several.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Outlaw » by Emerson Hough
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