What's the difference between suit and tally?

Suit


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.
  • (n.) The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.
  • (n.) The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.
  • (n.) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.
  • (n.) That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.
  • (n.) Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.
  • (n.) A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes.
  • (n.) One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds.
  • (n.) Regular order; succession.
  • (v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.
  • (v. t.) To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
  • (v. t.) To dress; to clothe.
  • (v. t.) To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.
  • (v. i.) To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The suits ensures the conditions for the function of the musculoskeletal apparatus and the cardiovascular system which are close to those on the Earth.
  • (2) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
  • (3) It is concluded that the present method for demonstration of aryl sulphatase activity is not well suited for microscopical identification of lysosomes in rat liver parenchymal cells.
  • (4) Quantitative esophageal sensibility, therefore is concluded to be particularly suited to evaluation by electric stimulation.
  • (5) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
  • (6) This variability, coupled with the lack of extreme specificity in the secondary auditory cortex, suggests that secondary cortical neurons are not well suited for the role of "vocalization detectors."
  • (7) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
  • (8) Ligament tissue seems to be less well suited to the microsphere technique; however, further study is warranted.
  • (9) Stimulus-response characteristics suggested that this system was well suited for a role in tonic inhibition of sympathetic activity.
  • (10) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
  • (11) CIE has several operational advantages over ELISA and best suited to laboratories with limited resources.
  • (12) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (13) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
  • (14) These studies thus provide a well-characterized repertoire of MAbs that are well suited for potential clinical trials involving the radiolocalization and possibly therapy of human colon carcinoma lesions.
  • (15) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
  • (16) Short of setting up a hotline to the Met Office – or, more prosaically, moving to a country where the weather best suits our condition, as Dawn Binks says several sufferers she knows have done – migraineurs can do little to ensure that the climate is kind to them.
  • (17) A test suite has been developed for evaluating hearing aids.
  • (18) Owing to its broad spectrum of action (covering both gram-positive and gram-negative microorganisms and anaerobes) and its consistently strong molar action, mezlocillin is well suited as a beta-lactam combination component for intensive care patients.
  • (19) These design methods are suited for constructing the most efficient gradient coil that meets a specified homogeneity requirement.
  • (20) What we’re saying is the advertising is false.” Prosecutors are not asking the court to halt the company’s services while the suit proceeds.

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.