What's the difference between series and tally?

Series


Definition:

  • (n.) A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
  • (n.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
  • (n.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
  • (2) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
  • (3) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
  • (4) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
  • (5) A series of eight patients with multiple meningiomas is presented.
  • (6) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
  • (7) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (8) Mitonafide is the lead compound of a new series of antitumor drugs, the 3-Nitronaphthalimides, which have shown antineoplastic activity in vitro as well as in vivo.
  • (9) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
  • (10) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
  • (11) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
  • (12) In a series of compounds with H2-antihistaminic activity, a conformational analysis was performed based on force field calculations.
  • (13) Probability distributions are fitted to these data and it is shown that the log-series distribution best fits the data for two subgroups.
  • (14) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
  • (15) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
  • (16) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
  • (17) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
  • (18) The four patients treated in our series recovered fully; the single fatal case constituted an unrecognized case of pneumococcal endocarditis.
  • (19) These unusual fractures are not easily detected on the routine three-view "hand-series."
  • (20) Recently, we have designed a series of simplified artificial signal sequences and have shown that a proline residue in the signal sequence plays an important role in the secretion of human lysozyme in yeast, presumably by altering the conformation of the signal sequence [Yamamoto, Y., Taniyama, Y., & Kikuchi, M. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 2728-2732].

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.