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单词 tally
释义 tal·ly
I. \ˈtalē, -li\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English taly, talye, from Medieval Latin talea, tallia, from Latin talea stick, twig, cutting — more at tailor
1. : a visible device for recording or accounting especially business transactions: as
 a. : a usually square wooden rod or stick notched with marks representing numbers and split lengthwise through the notches so that each of two bargaining parties may have a record of a transaction and of the amount of money due or paid; specifically : such a cloven stick formerly used by the English Exchequer as a record of government transactions
 b. : any of various primitive devices or wooden sticks used for marking or counting
 c. : any of various bookkeeping forms or sheets serving to record or check accounts, sales, or shipments
 d. : a mechanical counter held in the hand and operated with a button or lever
 e. : a tag or label used to mark or classify plants, trees, or goods
 f. : a card or folder that designates a bridge player's starting position and provides space for recording his score
2.
 a. : a reckoning or recorded account of something
  < a daily tally of accidents should be kept — Theodore Loveless >
  < game warden keeps tally on the creel — American Guide Series: Connecticut >
  < been out on the range … helping with the fall tally — W.V.T.Clark >
  < a tally of mixed blessings — Dixon Wecter >
 b. : a score or point made (as in a game)
  < a record tally of 263 for 72 holes — Current Biography >
  < drove in the first … tally in the opening inning — New York Times >
  < the tally coming on a 15-yard pass — New York Times >
 c. : a record of the number of pieces and the grades of lumber
3.
 a. : a half, part, or entity that agrees or corresponds to an opposite or companion member : complement, counterpart
  < one twin is the tally of the other >
 b. : the state or fact of correspondence or agreement
  < will find again the tally between proportion and thought — Edinburgh Review >
4.
 a. : a usually specified number or lot taken as a whole : tote
 b. : a number or division used as a unit of computation
 c. : the last of a specified unit or number
5. dialect England : companionate marriage 2
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-es)
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to mark (as a number) on or as if on a tally : tabulate, record
  < tally the election returns as they are reported >
  < tallied a deficit of … $1000 — Future >
  < tallies some 10,000 automobile miles a year — Time >
  < ideas and methods … impossible to tally on a balance sheet — Nation's Business >
 b. : to list or check off (a cargo, load, or shipment) by items
  < the mates supervising the loading and tallying the cargo >
 c. : to supply (a bale or shipment) with a label or distinguishing mark
 d. : to grade and record the number of pieces (as of lumber)
 e. : to register or cause to be registered (a point or score) in a game or contest
  < some means of tallying the scores — C.J.Erasmus >
  < tallying 269 for 72 holes and prize money — Current Biography >
  < tallied five TD's and two field goals — Eddie Beachler >
2. : to make a count of (something) : reckon, total
 < tally your expenses for the day — Winston Brebner >
 < can tally among his followers … three or four democratic senators — R.L.Neuberger >
 < those men are waiting to tally … cattle — S.E.White >
 < try to tally the bloody price exacted for this crime — O.T.Lanham >
— sometimes used with out or up
 < when we tallied out the herd, every cow was counted — S.E.Fletcher >
 < tally up the for and against — C.C.Furnas >
 < when the intelligence reports were finally tallied up — Lou Stoumen >
3. : to cause to correspond or complement : match
 < the far-fetched imagery, the insistent anecdote … are tallied by an equal amount of pains and forethought — Sacheverell Sitwell >
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to make a tally by or as if by tabulating a number or record
  < if an error is made in tallying, the results of computations will be wrong — Lester Guest >
  < at the time they tallied close to $110 billion — W.H.Anderson >
  < the quarterly and annual tallying of payrolls — A.J.Caruso >
 b. : to register a point or score in a game or contest
  < tallied on a 34-yard burst through tackle — New York Times >
  < the first time … over a five-year span that they had not tallied — Louis Effrat >
2. : to balance or correspond in complementary fashion
 < calculated values of the centripetal force and the gravitational force did not tally — S.F.Mason >
 < so completely did the two ghosts … tally in their particularity — Sacheverell Sitwell >
— often used with with
 < representation must tally with thing represented — R.M.Weaver >
 < this family doctrine tallied so little with the manifest circumstances — H.G.Wells >
Synonyms: see agree
III. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-es)
Etymology: origin unknown
: to haul aft (as a sheet)
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