tally

Plural: tallies

Noun

• a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
  • "their first tally came in the 3rd inning"
• a bill for an amount due
• the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: tallied, tallying, tallies

• To count or record; to agree or correspond.
• be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
• gain points in a game
• keep score, as in games
• determine the sum of
• 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.

Intj

• Target sighted.

Adv

• In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.

Examples

• He tried to TALLY the points in his head, but his opponent was too fast.

Synonyms

add, add together, add up, agree, chalk up, check, correspond, count, counting, enumeration, fit, gibe, hit, jibe, match, numeration, rack up, reckoning, run, score, sum, sum up, summate, tot, tot up, total, tote up, enumerate, number, tallyho

Antonyms

disagree

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