(v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
(v. i.) To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
(v. t.) To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Residents of Cardiff , Cumbria and Plymouth are either dallying with the idea or actively pursuing it.
(2) Of 257 named characters, only a handful dare shoot up an ironic eyebrow, fewer dally in high camp.
(3) Indirect hemagglutination tests on sera from 251 Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) from interior Alaska collected during the period 1979 to 1987 revealed no evidence of exposure to Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae.
(4) Yes, she dallied with cocaine but she wouldn’t again.
(5) Now, however, all four Burgess boys are big news Down Under, where they have teamed up at the South Sydney Rabbitohs, and George became the first Briton ever to be named Rookie of the Year at the National Rugby League's Dally M awards night, only a few hours after McNamara had confirmed that he, Sam and Tom will be flying to South Africa this week to join England's high-altitude World Cup training camp in Potchefstroom.
(6) Only once did this concern the visiting defence – when Zabaleta dallied in the area but a cool touch allowed him and Kompany to clear the danger.
(7) Inevitably, it has provoked distrust in the rest of the continent: in which the chancellor's costly dilly-dallying during the debt crisis, led to remarks about a third world war in the British press.
(8) Both sides were exhibiting a wastefulness in the final third as Mark Davies dragged wide after a promising foray and Roger Espinoza dallied when bearing down on goal.
(9) In a typically water animal (Phocaenoides dalli) the cervical thickening is expressed feebly, the lumbar one is absent, the epidural space is developed better than in terrestrial and semiwater animals.
(10) Rats were given dally injections of nicotine in the same environment.
(11) Dalli, in a videoed interview with a Brussels political paper, said the investigators' report "stated there was no proof at all that I was involved in any misdeed" and that no decision of the commission had been jeopardised.
(12) Dodd toyed and dallied in the telling, knowing his audience couldn't know where the joke was going and then warning them, just before the punchline: "You don't deserve this."
(13) He picks out Liam Lawrence, who dilly-dallies then passes when he probably should have had a shot from distance.
(14) The commissioner John Dalli has revealed that he was forced to resign by the European commission president, José Manuel Barroso, following an investigation by the EU anti-fraud office Olaf into a complaint by a Swedish tobacco company.
(15) He wouldn't necessarily have chosen that path, but Glamorgan have dilly-dallied over the negotiations.
(16) I became negative and didn’t feel like myself.” It is no secret that the Dutchman, like Congerton, had become dismayed by Short’s reluctance to follow his advice and invest significant sums in root and branch reform of a squad which has spent the past few seasons dallying with relegation.
(17) For weeks now, Hollande has led the European response to the Syrian crisis, pursuing a hawkish approach to Damascus in stark contrast to the dilly-dallying of France's continental allies and neighbours.
(18) We noted frequency of body-image disturbance (BID) and dismorphophobias (DPP) in 97 girls and 8 boys among 107 girls and 8 boys with Anorexia Nervosa (AN), seen since 1973 and coming up semiologic criterions of Laboucarie and Dally & Sargant.
(19) He turned to psychoanalysis, David Astor's favoured remedy, and ended up with a psychiatrist, probably the late Peter Dally, who first injected him with methadrine and then – this was the 60s – offered LSD, which was still legal.
(20) The prevalences of three helminths, Campula oblonga, Halocercus dalli and Crassicauda sp., recovered from Dall's porpoises which were net-entrapped incidentally in the vicinity of the Western Aleutian Islands in the northwest Pacific are reported.
Tally
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
(n.) Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.
(n.) One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
(n.) A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game.
(n.) A tally shop. See Tally shop, below.
(n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit.
(n.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
(v. i.) To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.
(v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.
(a.) Stoutly; with spirit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The director of the Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Alexandra Hildebrandt, keeps a tally started by her late husband Rainer, the museum’s founder, which currently lists 1,720 victims.
(2) There are harsh lessons in football and we have learned some over the last week.” Two James Milner penalties and goals from the impressive Adam Lallana, Sadio Mané and Philippe Coutinho took Liverpool’s tally to 24 in eight games.
(3) Only 321 birds have fallen in the first six months of this year and the project is working to minimize the death tally, according to Thomas Doyle, president of NRG’s renewable energy business.
(4) A program is presented which permits use of a pocket-size programmable calculator, the HP-65, to tally phenotypes resulting from a three-point cross.
(5) That's how many times Tony Gwynn struck out during his long career, a total that some players today seem to tally on a ten-game road trip.
(6) Chinese authorities have raised the death toll from Beijing's floods to 77 from 37 after the public questioned the days-old tally.
(7) Their current Westminster tally is strikingly close, too, to the 45% of the constituency vote that gave Alex Salmond his great Holyrood landslide in 2011, and indeed to the 44% who tell ICM in Friday’s survey that they would plump for the nationalists if there were a fresh ballot for their local Holyrood seat.
(8) The device consists of a motor-driven shaft which moves the record past a fixed cursor, and an electronic counter which records the movements of the shaft, thereby providing a cumulative tally of the distance of the current position of the cursor from some arbitrary origin on the record.
(9) While many of these have provided useful insight and detail into the operation of the program, several of the reports do not tally with the information obtained by the Guardian.
(10) Anyway, tallies of positive and negative pieces are a dangerous measure, as the Guardian should not be a fanzine for any side.
(11) His running here was unstinting and he doubled his tally with a clinical finish after a first touch too smart for Pogatetz, preening perhaps after giving Boro a sniff of reprieve.
(12) The Patriots eventually beat the Colts 43-22, but it wasn't quite the romp that that final tally would suggest, as the Colts cut it to a one-score game in the third quarter.
(13) Since clinic and pathogenesis tally, one should abandon the idea that Morton's metatarsalgia consists of interdigital pain (mainly in the 3rd space) and accept it as a pfeudoneuroma due mainly to pressure on the plantar digital nerve.
(14) Although programmed operation of the calculator for tallying purposes is slower than a single purpose instrument designed for tallying, this deficiency is componensated by the computational capability of this instrument.
(15) I would stay and try to help it get its act together, but Labour's views no longer seem to tally with mine.
(16) The previous February, Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and member of the armed services committee, was quoted tallying the deaths caused by drone strikes over the past decade at 4,700 people.
(17) The clinical pattern (somatic, skeletal and neurological) tallies with published findings in this disease.
(18) That crowded, baroque city, with its high tally of wooden buildings, was incinerated on the night of 13 February 1944 in a man-made firestorm that destroyed 90% of the city centre.
(19) That was his 10th goal in all competitions this season, a tally that has eased some of the pressure on Chelsea's blunt strikers, though this would eventually be decided by one of their number.
(20) Phoenix is also said to be considering a role in Gus van Sant's next film, Sea of Trees , which would tally more closely with his recent career trajectory.