(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.
Telly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) There would never be a meeting in a darkened room where a winner was chosen just to fit an audience demographic or to create more entertaining telly.
(2) We used to watch River Cottage on the telly and thought: “Wow, where’s that?
(3) The Gogglebox people are all nice(ish) and funny(ish), qualities vital to keep at bay total self-loathing that we are gathered as a family, watching on telly other people watching telly.
(4) Changing Rooms and Ground Force – market- leaders in the home make-over genre that was the telly sensation in the decade before incarceration game-shows – ran from 1996 to 2004 and 1997 to 2005 respectively.
(5) And it is quite striking, when you look into the history of telly, that predominantly women have been written by men, and represented through the prism of men’s eyes.
(6) Mum and Dad may not have wanted to talk about sex, but telly, film, literature, newspapers and pop music did.
(7) However there is little time to savour the triumph with his team, because of the extensive media duties: telly, radio, telly... then upstairs for the newspaper hacks.
(8) "There is a sense that if you're not on the telly then you might have died.
(9) For six weeks it's me saying on the telly what I've been saying on my blog for two years: "This is where I shop, this is what I do."
(10) Barely a radio or telly interview passes by which isn't stuffed with "issues", and only the new waffly sort, not the ones you could either mop up or be proud of.
(11) I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.
(12) It's nerve-racking to present and it's technically pretty complicated but it's fun, live telly.
(13) I used to watch the Mercury prize on the telly when I was 16, wondering when it would be my time, so this is really special.” East India Youth’s Doyle was also delighted that the band’s album had been selected.
(14) IDS's spinners are continuing an increasingly popular political tactic in both the US and UK of using telly references to connect with the electorate.
(15) Faced with this mutant telly genre masquerading as reality, soaps have become unreal just when we needed them to be otherwise.
(16) (Amstell, curiously enough, wasn’t a comedian when he started presenting telly.
(17) I don’t really remember, I suppose I watched a bit of telly, scrounged around the fridge for something to eat … that was a grim, grim day.” His next choice of music, perhaps tellingly, was one he first heard while working on reconciliation during his time at Coventry cathedral, a poignant Advent composition by John Tavener.
(18) I always wanted to listen to them and watch them on telly – I was a drummer so I wanted to be their drummer.
(19) On Sundays in the mid-70s, he and his family would gather round the telly to watch Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, a satire on soap operas.
(20) I repeat: 1.5m viewers for a half-hour comedy before it's on "normal" telly.