Definitions for Tally

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Tally tal·ly

Spelling: [tal-ee]

IPA: /ˈtæl i/

Tally is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in Tally (allty).

Definitions for Tally

noun

1. an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
2. Also called tally stick. a stick of wood with notches cut to indicate the amount of a debt or payment, often split lengthwise across the notches, the debtor retaining one piece and the creditor the other.
3. anything on which a score or account is kept.
4. a notch or mark made on or in a tally.
5. a number or group of items recorded.
6. a mark made to register a certain number of items, as four consecutive vertical lines with a diagonal line through them to indicate a group of five.
7. a number of objects serving as a unit of computation.
8. a ticket, label, or mark used as a means of identification, classification, etc.
9. anything corresponding to another thing as a counterpart or duplicate.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark or enter on a tally; register; record.
2. to count or reckon up.
3. to furnish with a tally or identifying label.
4. to cause to correspond or agree.

verb (used without object)

1. to correspond, as one part of a tally with the other; accord or agree:
2. to score a point or make a goal, as in a game.

Origin of Tally

1275-1325; (noun) Middle English taly Medieval Latin talia, variant of Latin tālea rod, cutting, literally, heel-piece, derivative of tālus heel; (v.) late Middle English talyen, derivative o

Examples for Tally

Neither did our conduct at all tally with the reputation that preceded us.

tally one for the superstition list… no more laundry at night.

We keep a tally of school shootings at The Daily Beast, too, using a slightly different methodology.

When the smoke cleared, a most precious 43-8 tally remained intact.

It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul.

This startling fact did not tally somehow with the idea Davidson had of Heyst.

The dates, circumstances, all tally in the minutest particulars.

It had entirely failed to tally with his expectations of it.

The following day, another school shooting at Arapahoe High School added to our tally.

They examined every “poll list, tally sheet, certificate of result, and, where necessary, each ballot.”