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Definition of tally in English:

tally

nounPlural tallies ˈtaliˈtæli
  • 1A current score or amount.

    that takes his tally to 10 goals in 10 games
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Because his career was on the line, Paar would go by the mailroom every day and check the current tally.
    • The 24-year-old took his goal tally for the season to 14 last night with a solo effort in a 2-1 defeat of Fiorentina.
    • They doubled their tally late in the game with goals by Hill and Ben Connolly.
    • The current tally stands at between 1,138 and 1,374.
    • A call back and the nest site is marked and added to the tally.
    • This population explosion has secured Tullow's position as the second biggest town in the county, moving ahead of Bagenalstown, which was traditionally ahead of Tullow in recent census tallies.
    • This tally included briskly-taken goals from the elusive Fabio Cretaro and Brian Walsh, an extremely reliable forward.
    • That is an estimate based on last year's national census, which found that the number of college diploma holders was 600,000 more than the official record tally.
    • Stokell's win in the first of two Nations Cup races was his 40th and a record tally in the series.
    • The visitors offered little or nothing in an confrontation that Britton settled by doubling his goal tally for the season to four.
    • Current tallies show box office grosses and video rentals for movies based on the Cannonball concept total in excess of $100 million.
    • When the polls close, the election precinct workers record the tallies from each of the machines.
    • Neither side could add to their tally in the second period.
    • The final tally on our bill was 67.30 leva - not too bad for a meal for four people.
    • The tally at the 100-million mark is expected to be 54 million mobile phones and 46 million landlines, going by Trai reports.
    • With 220 cases reported by June, the 2004 tally is expected to overtake the record 420 infections identified in 2003.
    • We don't know what the current tally is, but they're expecting that they can handle some 25,000 refugees here alone.
    • The legislature, meanwhile, will have half of its 60 seats directly elected in the upcoming polls in September, six seats up from the current tally.
    • The data, obtained by the Washington Post under a Freedom of Information Act request, represents the first military-wide annual tallies made public since 1998.
    • The American, who has already won more world titles than any other female athlete, is aiming to extend her record tally to six golds.
    Synonyms
    total, score, count, sum, result
    1. 1.1 A record of a score or amount.
      I kept a tally of David's debt on a note above my desk
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Take a tally of the number of times Clemens succeeded as a stopper in his years with the Sox.
      • The hospital records indicate a tally of four to five positive rabies cases every month and over 3,500 cases of post exposures annually.
      • Extra staff are always on duty to cope with the numbers, and sometimes amuse themselves by keeping a running tally of blue-topped patients versus green and white.
      • In the three provinces of Riau, the Riau Islands and Papua, the final tally of eligible voters had recorded a decline.
      • As I read the book, I kept a tally of exactly who was quoted or discussed in detail.
      • The survey was carried out by an organisation called Duck Density with the help of volunteers who kept a tally of wildfowl.
      • I was keeping tally of the numbers of calls that each party was given.
      • The Inca, who had no written language, used the quipu - a device made of a series of strings with colored knots - to record census findings and tallies of animal herds and other resources.
      • He said he could not give a number of people on the two trains at the time, as routine tallies of passenger numbers were not taken.
      • A running tally of each player's score is kept [as in Hearts].
      • Mrs Burgess said she had never kept a tally of how much money she had raised, but said it ran into thousands of pounds.
      • And I was keeping a tally of every time Stella says ‘Superb.’
      • The prediction is based on tallies of recorded earthquake occurrences over hundreds of years.
      • Clark kept a close tally of the numbers of beneficial animals that wild ones harmed.
      • The boy kept a tally of the different colours of sweets as he chomped.
      • Another way of gauging public interest was to keep an eye on my favoured news Website, which keeps a running tally of the top 10 stories viewed by its customers.
      • Strong men were admired, and feats of physical strength - tallies of sheep shorn, fields ploughed, trees felled - went down in the annals of rural communities.
      • Success isn't quantified by the millions in the bank but by the tally of drivers' championship titles and Formula One records which appear after his name.
      • The program provided a password-protected tally of completed diary records so that the coaches could trouble shoot in the field and check compliance.
      • Since the mid-1990s, the tally of former footballers on honour rolls of Victorian league clubs has risen from 60 to 132.
      Synonyms
      running total, count, record, reckoning, enumeration, register, account, roll, itemization, listing
      census, poll
    2. 1.2 A particular number taken as a group or unit to facilitate counting.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • So he counted, and tallied, and counted his tallies, and when he was done he tossed the letters on the bed, flung himself full-length, and sighed.
      • Continue that count, albeit an artificially pre-programmed tally, to the year 2020, and you're face to face with the future.
      • The day's tally included more than 450,000 information requests.
      Synonyms
      total, sum total, grand total, aggregate, summation, gross
      arithmetical problem, problem, calculation, reckoning, question
    3. 1.3 A mark registering a number or amount.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One familiar approach is to arrange the tally marks in groups, making four parallel strokes and then a fifth cross-stroke.
      • I got up from the couch and, holding my arm to steady it, went over to the wall and made a faint mark for the sixth tally with the buckle from my sandal before going back and lying down.
      • Some of the galleries had incised lines cut into the wall, perhaps tally marks, or identification symbols.
      • ‘Look… someone has carved tally marks on the door here,’ Guy said.
      • Xander gave me a wink before taking one hand and scratching off an imaginary tally mark in the air.
      • My first two periods were English, a fact that put a tally mark under the ‘Pro’ column.
      • A single tally mark was made in the appropriate space.
      • ‘That's one less thing,’ I said making an invisible tally mark on the window.
      • Traditionally the score is kept on paper using tally marks for tens, grouping them into fifties.
      • Their daughter has introduced my children to the idea of drawing tally marks to figure out problems.
      • Your keyboard may be equipped with a small notepad; you should use this to make little tally marks in two columns for each time you shift.
      • Miss Bennett pointed her pencil eraser at her blackboard and said, ‘Make a tally mark up there.’
      • The second half was more of the same for the Warriors as Laurier followed the second kick-off with good intensity, notching a second tally early in the half.
      • The simplest kind of counting is based on tally marks.
      • It seems that the abacus started life as a humble tray covered with nothing more than dust or sand, upon which the ‘operator’ could draw figures or tally marks.
    4. 1.4 An account kept by means of a tally.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A hanger-on ran up to her with a collection of shipping tallies and informed her of the status of the ship.
      • Once you have registered for the Promotion, a tally account will be established for you; and you may then begin to search for the 20 hidden bottles.
      • Shipping insurance companies keep tallies on the ships lost and an inquiring mind could find the crew roster next to ‘lost at sea’.
      • We accept the figures given in the supervisor's returns, over his signature, as being the actual results as to the volumes of materials delivered and measured in the vehicles, for the tally account in the memorandum book.
      • The server keeps a cache of all active account and session tallies and credit balances.
  • 2historical A piece of wood scored across with notches for the items of an account and then split into halves, each party keeping one.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • No two sticks could be found so exactly similar, as to admit of being identically matched with each other, when split in the coarse manner of cutting tallies; and certainly no alteration of the particulars expressed by the notches and inscription could remain undiscovered when the two parts were again brought together.
    • As resident surgeon to the Bank of England and the son of the accountant general, Smee was able to state with authority concerning some tallies preserved as relics that "curiously enough, I have ascertained that no gentleman in the Bank of England recollects the mode of reading them."
    • When the deal was finalised, half of the tally stick went to the purchaser, and you kept the other half as a permanent record.
  • 3archaic A counterpart or duplicate of something.

    the key is so cut as to form a tally with the interior machinery
    Synonyms
    counterpart, match, mate, duplicate
  • 4A label giving information about a plant or tree.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The tally itself is what is known as the "package label" of the nurserymen, being six inches long, one and one-fourth inches wide, and costing (painted) less than one and one-half dollars a thousand.
    • Figure 185 shows a zinc tally, which is secured to the tree by means of a sharp and pointed wire driven into 185' Zinc tree label' the wood.
verbtallies, tallied, tallying ˈtaliˈtæli
  • 1no object Agree or correspond.

    their signatures should tally with their names on the register
    their books never tallied
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, these claims do not appear to tally with official figures, which show that the number of acute beds increased by just 408 since 2001.
    • It is therefore important for speech writers to recognise the fact that, whatever they scribble, should tally with the audience or expectations of the listeners.
    • Andrews just hopes their ambitions tally with his own and those of his boss.
    • They can then see how their answers tally with those of people sampled in a Harris Poll.
    • If the names on voting documents don't tally with people's ID, they will not be able to vote.
    • They say his actions, which destabilise, don't tally with the talk.
    • However, his age and marital status do not seem to tally with the ‘Second Class’ status of this person in the List.
    • The news of economic prosperity doesn't tally with the headlines in the newspapers.
    • There are undoubtedly chefs who believe reviewers go out with the express intention of ripping into a restaurant, but that doesn't tally with my experience.
    • Each of these designs has its own technical approach and theoretical bandwidth, the latter of which didn't always tally with our test results.
    • This number tallies with the number given in the so-called street books where deaths were recorded by reference to the streets and houses where the dead were found.
    • Overall, worldwide PC unit shipments were up 23.3 per cent, according to IDC, which tallies well with PC Data's report on the US retail, online and mail order channels.
    • The actor feels the pressure of living up to a media-induced facade that just doesn't tally with reality.
    • Often tax inspectors would discover tax evasion by examining an individual's personal assets and lifestyle to see if their outgoings tally with their income.
    • While most pollsters say they would contact clients whose analyses didn't tally with the numbers, few ever do.
    • There are good reasons why the slightly arrogant screen image doesn't quite tally with the reality.
    • The number of reports does not tally with the number of case files because in some cases a single case file corresponds to more than one report of the same practice under investigation.
    • The way observations tally with detailed calculations provides firm support for the model.
    • The figures tally with national averages, as a new report out today from the Department of Health reveals that Caesareans have increased four-fold in the last 25 years.
    • If the numbers of those who voted at that particular spot don't tally with the registers in the hands of agents, it would clearly be known.
    Synonyms
    correspond, agree, accord, concur, coincide, match, fit, be in agreement, be consistent, conform, equate, harmonize, suit, be in tune, dovetail, correlate, parallel
    informal square
    North American informal jibe
  • 2with object Calculate the total number of.

    the votes were being tallied with abacuses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • With no actual paper trail, votes could be tallied and lost, or not even counted at all.
    • There were concerns that some votes weren't tallied, that people didn't know how to use the machines.
    • That means we need to retain policies to tally the votes at the polls, in front of observers.
    • When he finished tallying them, the total came to 34.
    • With hundreds of thousands of troops overseas, how will those votes be tallied and collected?
    • Within each nesting block, we tallied the number of avian nest predators observed.
    • We tallied the total acreage of each of the three relevant soil series in every county within the Ridge and Valley using the county soil surveys.
    • Additionally, a composite barrier scale was constructed by tallying the total number of barriers identified by parents.
    • With 11 candidates, the Ballymote Electoral area is sure to be one to watch out for when the votes are being tallied up.
    • Having access to the full report allowed the Advocate to tally the figures for the past financial year and compare them to the total for the previous financial year.
    • The votes are tallied separately, but count together to determine the winner.
    • Subgeneric diversity was calculated by tallying taxa that cross boundaries.
    • Votes will be tallied at counting centres in the presence of candidate representatives and the media.
    • Countries also collect species-specific trade data to produce an annual report that tallies all imports and exports.
    • I would dearly like to be able to tally the total amount their varied and many fundraisers for deserving causes have accumulated over the years.
    • An overall reliability coefficient was calculated by tallying the number of intervals in which both observers agreed that the targeted behavior did or did not occur.
    • So, let's get straight to the answers, so you can tally your score.
    • It wasn't until Sunday that the votes were tallied.
    • Points were given for successful answers and were tallied up at the end of the day.
    • The membership total is tallied by counting the number of people who have paid dues in the last 18 months.
    Synonyms
    count, calculate, add up, total, enumerate, compute
    figure out, work out, reckon, measure, quantify, rate
    British tot up

Derivatives

  • tallier

  • noun
    • Most importantly, it does not protect voters’ privacy if the tallier and validator collude.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • After the voting booths have closed, a set of talliers decrypt the encrypted votes with the aid of the mix network, to obtain the final tally, but without revealing or being able to notice the relationship between votes cast and votes in the tally.
      • In our system, the voter receives a receipt confirming her vote, and does not need to trust any pollster to correctly encrypt her vote, or convey it to the talliers.
      • The candidates or persons interested in the ballot question, their counsel, watchers, and talliers shall be allowed to observe each ballot as it is called and to take notes as they desire for their own records.
      • For example, the talliers can compute a so-called hash of the tally, and each would then sign his hash.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a notched tally stick): from Anglo-Norman French tallie, from Latin talea 'twig, cutting'. Compare with tail2.

Rhymes

Ali, alley, Allie, Ally, bally, dally, dilly-dally, farfalle, galley, Halley, mallee, Mexicali, pally, Raleigh, rally, reveille, sally, valley
 
 

Definition of tally in US English:

tally

nounˈtalēˈtæli
  • 1A current score or amount.

    that takes his tally to 10 goals in 10 games
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The legislature, meanwhile, will have half of its 60 seats directly elected in the upcoming polls in September, six seats up from the current tally.
    • The visitors offered little or nothing in an confrontation that Britton settled by doubling his goal tally for the season to four.
    • They doubled their tally late in the game with goals by Hill and Ben Connolly.
    • That is an estimate based on last year's national census, which found that the number of college diploma holders was 600,000 more than the official record tally.
    • Current tallies show box office grosses and video rentals for movies based on the Cannonball concept total in excess of $100 million.
    • A call back and the nest site is marked and added to the tally.
    • The tally at the 100-million mark is expected to be 54 million mobile phones and 46 million landlines, going by Trai reports.
    • Because his career was on the line, Paar would go by the mailroom every day and check the current tally.
    • With 220 cases reported by June, the 2004 tally is expected to overtake the record 420 infections identified in 2003.
    • This population explosion has secured Tullow's position as the second biggest town in the county, moving ahead of Bagenalstown, which was traditionally ahead of Tullow in recent census tallies.
    • Stokell's win in the first of two Nations Cup races was his 40th and a record tally in the series.
    • Neither side could add to their tally in the second period.
    • The 24-year-old took his goal tally for the season to 14 last night with a solo effort in a 2-1 defeat of Fiorentina.
    • When the polls close, the election precinct workers record the tallies from each of the machines.
    • The final tally on our bill was 67.30 leva - not too bad for a meal for four people.
    • The data, obtained by the Washington Post under a Freedom of Information Act request, represents the first military-wide annual tallies made public since 1998.
    • The American, who has already won more world titles than any other female athlete, is aiming to extend her record tally to six golds.
    • The current tally stands at between 1,138 and 1,374.
    • This tally included briskly-taken goals from the elusive Fabio Cretaro and Brian Walsh, an extremely reliable forward.
    • We don't know what the current tally is, but they're expecting that they can handle some 25,000 refugees here alone.
    Synonyms
    total, score, count, sum, result
    1. 1.1 A record of a score or amount.
      I kept a running tally of David's debt on a note above my desk
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I was keeping tally of the numbers of calls that each party was given.
      • Success isn't quantified by the millions in the bank but by the tally of drivers' championship titles and Formula One records which appear after his name.
      • And I was keeping a tally of every time Stella says ‘Superb.’
      • As I read the book, I kept a tally of exactly who was quoted or discussed in detail.
      • The boy kept a tally of the different colours of sweets as he chomped.
      • The Inca, who had no written language, used the quipu - a device made of a series of strings with colored knots - to record census findings and tallies of animal herds and other resources.
      • The hospital records indicate a tally of four to five positive rabies cases every month and over 3,500 cases of post exposures annually.
      • Mrs Burgess said she had never kept a tally of how much money she had raised, but said it ran into thousands of pounds.
      • Clark kept a close tally of the numbers of beneficial animals that wild ones harmed.
      • Since the mid-1990s, the tally of former footballers on honour rolls of Victorian league clubs has risen from 60 to 132.
      • The survey was carried out by an organisation called Duck Density with the help of volunteers who kept a tally of wildfowl.
      • The prediction is based on tallies of recorded earthquake occurrences over hundreds of years.
      • Another way of gauging public interest was to keep an eye on my favoured news Website, which keeps a running tally of the top 10 stories viewed by its customers.
      • The program provided a password-protected tally of completed diary records so that the coaches could trouble shoot in the field and check compliance.
      • A running tally of each player's score is kept [as in Hearts].
      • In the three provinces of Riau, the Riau Islands and Papua, the final tally of eligible voters had recorded a decline.
      • Extra staff are always on duty to cope with the numbers, and sometimes amuse themselves by keeping a running tally of blue-topped patients versus green and white.
      • He said he could not give a number of people on the two trains at the time, as routine tallies of passenger numbers were not taken.
      • Strong men were admired, and feats of physical strength - tallies of sheep shorn, fields ploughed, trees felled - went down in the annals of rural communities.
      • Take a tally of the number of times Clemens succeeded as a stopper in his years with the Sox.
      Synonyms
      running total, count, record, reckoning, enumeration, register, account, roll, itemization, listing
    2. 1.2 A particular number taken as a group or unit to facilitate counting.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • So he counted, and tallied, and counted his tallies, and when he was done he tossed the letters on the bed, flung himself full-length, and sighed.
      • The day's tally included more than 450,000 information requests.
      • Continue that count, albeit an artificially pre-programmed tally, to the year 2020, and you're face to face with the future.
      Synonyms
      total, sum total, grand total, aggregate, summation, gross
      arithmetical problem, problem, calculation, reckoning, question
    3. 1.3 A mark registering a number or amount.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A single tally mark was made in the appropriate space.
      • Some of the galleries had incised lines cut into the wall, perhaps tally marks, or identification symbols.
      • It seems that the abacus started life as a humble tray covered with nothing more than dust or sand, upon which the ‘operator’ could draw figures or tally marks.
      • Miss Bennett pointed her pencil eraser at her blackboard and said, ‘Make a tally mark up there.’
      • Traditionally the score is kept on paper using tally marks for tens, grouping them into fifties.
      • Their daughter has introduced my children to the idea of drawing tally marks to figure out problems.
      • One familiar approach is to arrange the tally marks in groups, making four parallel strokes and then a fifth cross-stroke.
      • Xander gave me a wink before taking one hand and scratching off an imaginary tally mark in the air.
      • My first two periods were English, a fact that put a tally mark under the ‘Pro’ column.
      • The simplest kind of counting is based on tally marks.
      • I got up from the couch and, holding my arm to steady it, went over to the wall and made a faint mark for the sixth tally with the buckle from my sandal before going back and lying down.
      • The second half was more of the same for the Warriors as Laurier followed the second kick-off with good intensity, notching a second tally early in the half.
      • ‘Look… someone has carved tally marks on the door here,’ Guy said.
      • ‘That's one less thing,’ I said making an invisible tally mark on the window.
      • Your keyboard may be equipped with a small notepad; you should use this to make little tally marks in two columns for each time you shift.
    4. 1.4 An account kept by means of a tally.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A hanger-on ran up to her with a collection of shipping tallies and informed her of the status of the ship.
      • The server keeps a cache of all active account and session tallies and credit balances.
      • Once you have registered for the Promotion, a tally account will be established for you; and you may then begin to search for the 20 hidden bottles.
      • We accept the figures given in the supervisor's returns, over his signature, as being the actual results as to the volumes of materials delivered and measured in the vehicles, for the tally account in the memorandum book.
      • Shipping insurance companies keep tallies on the ships lost and an inquiring mind could find the crew roster next to ‘lost at sea’.
  • 2historical A piece of wood scored across with notches for the items of an account and then split into halves, each party keeping one.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As resident surgeon to the Bank of England and the son of the accountant general, Smee was able to state with authority concerning some tallies preserved as relics that "curiously enough, I have ascertained that no gentleman in the Bank of England recollects the mode of reading them."
    • No two sticks could be found so exactly similar, as to admit of being identically matched with each other, when split in the coarse manner of cutting tallies; and certainly no alteration of the particulars expressed by the notches and inscription could remain undiscovered when the two parts were again brought together.
    • When the deal was finalised, half of the tally stick went to the purchaser, and you kept the other half as a permanent record.
  • 3archaic A counterpart or duplicate of something.

    Synonyms
    counterpart, match, mate, duplicate
  • 4A 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.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The tally itself is what is known as the "package label" of the nurserymen, being six inches long, one and one-fourth inches wide, and costing (painted) less than one and one-half dollars a thousand.
    • Figure 185 shows a zinc tally, which is secured to the tree by means of a sharp and pointed wire driven into 185' Zinc tree label' the wood.
verbˈtalēˈtæli
  • 1no object Agree or correspond.

    their signatures should tally with their names on the register
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, these claims do not appear to tally with official figures, which show that the number of acute beds increased by just 408 since 2001.
    • The figures tally with national averages, as a new report out today from the Department of Health reveals that Caesareans have increased four-fold in the last 25 years.
    • Andrews just hopes their ambitions tally with his own and those of his boss.
    • If the names on voting documents don't tally with people's ID, they will not be able to vote.
    • The news of economic prosperity doesn't tally with the headlines in the newspapers.
    • The way observations tally with detailed calculations provides firm support for the model.
    • Often tax inspectors would discover tax evasion by examining an individual's personal assets and lifestyle to see if their outgoings tally with their income.
    • While most pollsters say they would contact clients whose analyses didn't tally with the numbers, few ever do.
    • They say his actions, which destabilise, don't tally with the talk.
    • This number tallies with the number given in the so-called street books where deaths were recorded by reference to the streets and houses where the dead were found.
    • The number of reports does not tally with the number of case files because in some cases a single case file corresponds to more than one report of the same practice under investigation.
    • If the numbers of those who voted at that particular spot don't tally with the registers in the hands of agents, it would clearly be known.
    • There are undoubtedly chefs who believe reviewers go out with the express intention of ripping into a restaurant, but that doesn't tally with my experience.
    • Each of these designs has its own technical approach and theoretical bandwidth, the latter of which didn't always tally with our test results.
    • It is therefore important for speech writers to recognise the fact that, whatever they scribble, should tally with the audience or expectations of the listeners.
    • There are good reasons why the slightly arrogant screen image doesn't quite tally with the reality.
    • Overall, worldwide PC unit shipments were up 23.3 per cent, according to IDC, which tallies well with PC Data's report on the US retail, online and mail order channels.
    • They can then see how their answers tally with those of people sampled in a Harris Poll.
    • The actor feels the pressure of living up to a media-induced facade that just doesn't tally with reality.
    • However, his age and marital status do not seem to tally with the ‘Second Class’ status of this person in the List.
    Synonyms
    correspond, agree, accord, concur, coincide, match, fit, be in agreement, be consistent, conform, equate, harmonize, suit, be in tune, dovetail, correlate, parallel
  • 2with object Calculate the total number of.

    the votes were being tallied with abacuses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • So, let's get straight to the answers, so you can tally your score.
    • Subgeneric diversity was calculated by tallying taxa that cross boundaries.
    • Countries also collect species-specific trade data to produce an annual report that tallies all imports and exports.
    • The membership total is tallied by counting the number of people who have paid dues in the last 18 months.
    • With hundreds of thousands of troops overseas, how will those votes be tallied and collected?
    • With no actual paper trail, votes could be tallied and lost, or not even counted at all.
    • Votes will be tallied at counting centres in the presence of candidate representatives and the media.
    • The votes are tallied separately, but count together to determine the winner.
    • With 11 candidates, the Ballymote Electoral area is sure to be one to watch out for when the votes are being tallied up.
    • An overall reliability coefficient was calculated by tallying the number of intervals in which both observers agreed that the targeted behavior did or did not occur.
    • We tallied the total acreage of each of the three relevant soil series in every county within the Ridge and Valley using the county soil surveys.
    • When he finished tallying them, the total came to 34.
    • There were concerns that some votes weren't tallied, that people didn't know how to use the machines.
    • Additionally, a composite barrier scale was constructed by tallying the total number of barriers identified by parents.
    • Having access to the full report allowed the Advocate to tally the figures for the past financial year and compare them to the total for the previous financial year.
    • Within each nesting block, we tallied the number of avian nest predators observed.
    • That means we need to retain policies to tally the votes at the polls, in front of observers.
    • Points were given for successful answers and were tallied up at the end of the day.
    • I would dearly like to be able to tally the total amount their varied and many fundraisers for deserving causes have accumulated over the years.
    • It wasn't until Sunday that the votes were tallied.
    Synonyms
    count, calculate, add up, total, enumerate, compute

Origin

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

 
 
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