tally

see definition of tally

nouncount, record
verbadd up; count, record

Synonyms for tally

noun count, record

account

noun. record of finances, fees, or charges

accounts

noun. record of finances, fees, or charges

add

verb. simple arithmetical process of increase; accumulation

Word Origin & History

mid-15c., "stick marked with notches to indicate amount owed or paid," from Anglo-French tallie (early 14c.), Anglo-Latin talea (late 12c.), from Medieval Latin tallia, from Latin talea "a cutting, rod, stick" (see tailor, and cf. sense history of score). Meaning "a thing that matches another" first recorded 1650s, said to be from practice of splitting a tally lengthwise, debtor and creditor each retaining one of the halves. Sports sense of "a total score" is from 1856.

Example Sentences for tally

The dates, circumstances, all tally in the minutest particulars.

Neither did our conduct at all tally with the reputation that preceded us.

It had entirely failed to tally with his expectations of it.

This startling fact did not tally somehow with the idea Davidson had of Heyst.

It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul.

Success requires that the counting should tally with the pointing.

Anthony unearthed a college chum who was tally man at a sawmill.

The young manager watched the operations and took a tally of the props.

To make sure that Tally was really dead I got down into the boat.

This tally did not cover Indians, of whom he had slain several.

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Synonyms for tally

accorded

according

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