TALLY (tallied)

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Irregular inflected form: tallied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tally mean? 

• TALLY (noun)
  The noun TALLY has 3 senses:

1. a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely

2. a bill for an amount due

3. the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

  Familiarity information: TALLY used as a noun is uncommon.

• TALLY (verb)
  The verb TALLY has 4 senses:

1. be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics

2. gain points in a game

3. keep score, as in games

4. determine the sum of

  Familiarity information: TALLY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TALLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

run; tally

Context example:

their first tally came in the 3rd inning

Hypernyms ("tally" is a kind of...):

score (the act of scoring in a game or sport)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tally"):

unearned run (a run that was scored as a result of an error by the other team)

rbi; run batted in (a run that is the result of the batter's performance)

earned run (a run that was not scored as the result of an error by the other team)

Derivation:

tally (keep score, as in games)

tally (gain points in a game)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A bill for an amount due

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

reckoning; tally

Hypernyms ("tally" is a kind of...):

account; bill; invoice (an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

count; counting; enumeration; numeration; reckoning; tally

Context example:

the counting continued for several hours

Hypernyms ("tally" is a kind of...):

investigating; investigation (the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tally"):

blood count (the act of estimating the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample)

census; nose count; nosecount (a periodic count of the population)

countdown (counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle))

miscount (an inaccurate count)

poll (the counting of votes (as in an election))

recount (an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election)

sperm count (the act of estimating the number of spermatozoa in an ejaculate)

Derivation:

tally (determine the sum of)

• TALLY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tally    ... he / she / it tallies   
Past simple: tallied   
Past participle: tallied   
-ing form: tallying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally

Context example:

The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun

Hypernyms (to "tally" is one way to...):

be; equal (be identical or equivalent to)

Verb group:

accord; agree; concord; consort; fit in; harmonise; harmonize (go together)

check; check out (be verified or confirmed; pass inspection)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tally"):

rhyme; rime (be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable)

adhere (be compatible or in accordance with)

pattern (form a pattern)

accord; agree; concord; consort; fit in; harmonise; harmonize (go together)

befit; beseem; suit (accord or comport with)

homologize (be homologous)

resemble (appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to)

bear out; corroborate; support; underpin (support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm)

square (be compatible with)

duplicate; parallel; twin (duplicate or match)

parallel (be parallel to)

correlate (to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation)

align (be or come into adjustment with)

coincide (be the same)

answer (match or correspond)

look (accord in appearance with)

consist (be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Gain points in a game

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

hit; rack up; score; tally

Context example:

He hit .300 in the past season

Hypernyms (to "tally" is one way to...):

advance; gain; gain ground; get ahead; make headway; pull ahead; win (obtain advantages, such as points, etc.)

"Tally" entails doing...:

compete; contend; vie (compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tally"):

walk (obtain a base on balls)

get; have; make (achieve a point or goal)

equalise; equalize; get even (compensate; make the score equal)

ace (score an ace against)

hole up (score a hole in one)

eagle (shoot in two strokes under par)

homer (hit a home run)

convert (score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone)

convert (complete successfully)

convert (score (a spare))

shoot (score)

par (make a score (on a hole) equal to par)

kick (make a goal)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

tally (a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Keep score, as in games

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

chalk up; tally

Hypernyms (to "tally" is one way to...):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

"Tally" entails doing...:

count; enumerate; number; numerate (determine the number or amount of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

tally (a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Determine the sum of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

add; add together; add up; sum; sum up; summate; tally; tot; tot up; total; tote up

Context example:

Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town

Hypernyms (to "tally" is one way to...):

count; enumerate; number; numerate (determine the number or amount of)

Verb group:

add; add together (make an addition by combining numbers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

tally (the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order)

 Context examples 

The total number of words and intrusions is tallied for each trial.

(Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Auditory Verbal Learning Test Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

I had just finished tallying the skins of the last boat aboard, when he came to my side, in the darkness, and said in a low tone:

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The researchers also performed a technique called crater counting — tallying up the number of craters at least 330 feet (100 meters) in diameter — to estimate the ages of the flows.

(Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time, NASA)

He, too, put me at once in communication with the proper officials, and I saw that their tally was correct with the original invoice.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“I have pricked off the tally,” said Aylward, who had come aboard with his lord.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The same post brought me a letter from Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, James Windibank. Voilà tout!

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am not in the least provoked at the sight of a lawyer, a pickpocket, a colonel, a fool, a lord, a gamester, a politician, a whoremonger, a physician, an evidence, a suborner, an attorney, a traitor, or the like; this is all according to the due course of things: but when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience; neither shall I be ever able to comprehend how such an animal, and such a vice, could tally together.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Their tally was exact with the list, and they had nothing to add except that the boxes were "main and mortal heavy," and that shifting them was dry work.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Louis has also given me additional information about Death Larsen, which tallies with the captain’s brief description.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

So, the tally is complete!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)