What's the difference between sally and tally?

Sally


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.
  • (v.) A leaping forth; a darting; a spring.
  • (v.) A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to attack the besiegers; a sortie.
  • (v.) An excursion from the usual track; range; digression; deviation.
  • (v.) A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind.
  • (v.) Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
  • (2) Leaving aside those who make difficult interviewees because they are difficult people, Sally Wainwright is probably the most difficult interviewee ever.
  • (3) The recent Channel 4 documentary "You're killing my son" told the story of Neon Roberts, a young boy whose treatment for a brain tumour was halted by his mother Sally, who remained convinced that radiotherapy would cause long-term harm and wanted to try alternative medical treatments.
  • (4) McAlpine was not named in the programme, but he was incorrectly linked to the claims on the internet, including by the speaker's wife, Sally Bercow, and the actor Alan Davies.
  • (5) Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said at the time however that e-cigarettes should only be used a means to help smokers quit.
  • (6) So off he toddled with his bindle-stick to play at running away, taking refuge at Sally's house.
  • (7) These days large theatres such as the Met in New York still use the recitative, but most productions tend to opt for the original dialogue, while a few, including Sally Potter's production for ENO in 2007, attempt to make do without either.
  • (8) One consequence of the Cummings memo was that the Labour peer Sally Morgan was not reappointed as chair of Ofsted’s board earlier this year, in an effort to force the pace of internal change.
  • (9) In a statement, the chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, said: "Severe winter flu and its complications can make people really ill and can kill, particularly those who are weak and frail which is why we already offer vaccinations to the most at risk groups.
  • (10) BBC1’s police thriller Happy Valley, starring Sarah Lancashire set in the Calder Valley and written by Sally Wainwright , will return for a third series after its second pulled 7 million viewers.
  • (11) One of the greatest Hollywood comedies, When Harry Met Sally , is still largely remembered as a "chick flick", when it was directed by Rob Reiner, the man who made Spinal Tap .
  • (12) Legally, Sally has every right to demand the money back – no one is entitled to keep money wrongly credited to their account.
  • (13) Sally Copley, Save the Children's head of UK policy, said the government needed a way to count children in extreme poverty.
  • (14) We must urgently change course to avert this potential crisis.” There has also been considerable advocacy by health officials, like Sally Davies, chief medical officer of the UK.
  • (15) The 14-member committee – whose only woman is Northampton MP Sally Keeble – stopped short of calling for quotas on female board representation in financial firms or for legal changes to boost the profile of women in the City.
  • (16) For example, Sue and Dorrie heard the voice mention "David", "pain in the back" and "passed quickly", and they both claim that Sally then repeated this word-for-word on stage, but in a more dramatic fashion.
  • (17) Sally Chisholm of the NHS Technology Adoption Centre blamed "budget silos", as narrow funding streams often present financial disincentives to changing the way of working.
  • (18) We need our Stephen Hawkings, but we also need Bob the Builder, firefighter Sally, Ned the nurse, soldier Salim and postal worker Patu.
  • (19) Sally sent us off on the Tiny Tim Trail, a sloping, twisting, turning snowshoe path that had me panting and out of breath in less than five minutes.
  • (20) Some might gently suggest it is best left empty, but Sally threw good judgment to the wind and took to internet dating.

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.