tally

Meanings

Interjection

• Target sighted.

Noun

• 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 match; a mate.
• 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.

Verb

• 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.

Adverb

• In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.

Related

Similar words

• tallyho

Origin

• From Middle English talie, from Anglo-Norman tallie and Old French taille, from Medieval Latin tallia, from Latin talea.
• From Middle English talien, from the noun (see above). Also from Medieval Latin taliare
• From Middle English tally, talliche, equivalent to tall + -ly.