tally.
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Meaning & usage
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Where this word comes from
Clipping of tallyho.
Abbreviation of tally stick.
One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate.
One thing made to suit another; a counterpart or match.
A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
A tally shop.
A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
A state of cohabitation, living with another individual in an intimate relationship outside of marriage.
Five dozen bunches of turnips.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English talie, from Anglo-Norman tallie and Old French taille (“notch in a piece of wood signifying a debt”), from Medieval Latin tallia, from Latin talea (“a cutting, rod, stick”). Doublet of taille and talea.
To count something.
To mathematically calculate a numeric result.
To record something by making marks.
To make things correspond or agree with each other.
To keep score.
To correspond or agree.
To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English talien, from the noun (see above). Also from Medieval Latin taliare.
In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English tally, talliche, equivalent to tall + -ly.
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