_tally_
Verb.
Pronunciation
and accent: tælɪ.
Etymology: from the noun TALLY, and this one
from Latin talea (= stick,
cutting from a plant, rod).
Preterite tense: tallied. Preterite participle: tallied.
Present participle: tallying.
It is dated from
the beginning of 1400.
Transitively: 1. Obsolete
acceptation: to notch (something) so as to form a tally. Hence, to register on
or as on a tally. Particularly:
a. To register or cause to be registered (a
score, point, etc.) in a game, etc.
b. To register the contents of (a cargo) by
counting, labelling them, etc.
The
second mate was expected to assist the first mate in supervising the stowing of
cargo, and he tallied the cargo entering one hatch
while the mate tallied the cargo at the other hatch.
Eric Sager… Seafaring Labour
c. To distinguish (a bale of goods, etc.)
with a tally or laber; to identify by or as by a tally.
A
portion of the contents of the despatches were made known to him, and the
syndic was very soon afterwards seen to walk out, leaving his people to mark
and tally the bales which were hoisting out from a vessel
in the canal.
Frederick Marryat… Snarleyyow
Not
long after we had dined, the food-bringing was over. The gifts (carefully noted
and tallied as they came in) were now
announced by a humorous orator, who convulsed the audience, introducing singing
notes, now on the name of the article, now on the number; six thousand odd
heads of taro, three hundred and nineteen cooked pigs.
Robert Stevenson… Vailima Letters
2. To count or reckon, to number (sometimes
with up):
Once
the subcontractor costs are tallied, the general contractor adds
his or her work, overhead charges, and specific costs incurred, suitably backed
by invoices from suppliers or payroll records, and the total cost of construction
for the month is tallied.
Stuart Rider… Idiot's Guide…
[…]
she decided to spend even more [makeup] on others than she did on herself, and
she began keeping an account of what she spent. She kept every receipt and tallied up the totals every night in one of her ledgers.
Michelle Hancock… Lost
3. To cause (one or
more things) to tally; to cause to fit.
Intransitively: (of a thing) to be fitted to
another, as if it were one half of a cloven tally with its counterpart; to be
suitably coupled with another; (of two
things) to be so mutually similar as to be suitably coupled together.
Antonyms: to
contrast, discord, differ.
Synonyms: to
suit, to match, conform.
Translation: concordar, in Spanish; concordare, in Italian; concorder, in French.
The
description and the memorandum tallied exactly.
Catherine Crowe… Susan Hopley
-) With the
preposition with, to
signify conformity with another thing:
Requesting
the miner to accompany him to the hotel, Manning interrogated him closely about
the appearance of the man, and found that he was [… veridical], as his
description of Duncan tallied precisely with what he himself had already learned.
Allan Pinkerton… The Burglar's
"My
valet is not going to leave me," said the old man, with an insolence of look
that tallied with the rude speech.
Charles Lever… Roland Cashel
The
lady was still down on her knees, looking at the list of clothing pasted on the
inside of the lid of one of her husband's bullock trunks, and seeing whether
the different articles scattered on the ground tallied in number with it.
Henry Mayhew – A. Mayhew… The image of his father
My
secret intelligence tallied very well with what I observed.
James Abbott … Journey from Heraut to Khiva 1867
The
description of this person exactly tallied with that of the pretended American.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton… A Strange Story
The
certificates were regularly signed as extracts from the parish books, the first
letter had a genuine appearance of having been written and preserved for some years,
the handwriting of the second tallied with it exactly, (making proper
allowance for its having been written by a person in extremity,) and there were
several other corroboratory scraps of entries and memoranda which it was
equally difficult to question.
Charles Dickens… Nicholas Nickleby
Words derived
from TALLY: tallying,
tallyman, tallywoman.
