单词 | tally |
释义 | tally —tallier, n. /tal"ee/, n. , pl. tallies, v. , tallied, tallying. n. 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. v.t. 10. to mark or enter on a tally; register; record. 11. to count or reckon up. 12. to furnish with a tally or identifying label. 13. to cause to correspond or agree. v.i. 14. to correspond, as one part of a tally with the other; accord or agree: Does his story tally with hers? 15. to score a point or make a goal, as in a game. [1275-1325; (n.) ME taly < ML talia, var. of L talea rod, cutting, lit., heel-piece, deriv. of talus heel; (v.) late ME talyen, deriv. of the n.] Syn. 1. inventory, count, enumeration. 10. enroll, list. 11. enumerate, calculate. |
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