Look up: tally

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   Tally
   Originally, a tally was a piece of wood scored across with notches representing an amount of debt or payment. The wood was then split in half lengthways and each party kept half. An early document records the manner of using a tally thus: 'Let a hazel stick have cut transversely into it as many notches as there are figures tobe recorded. To distinguish 1d, 1s, Å“1, or any multiple thereof, the notches are cut of different breadths. Let the stick then split down the middle through all the notches....
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   Tally
   NavalSlang word meaning Name; hence, Cap-tally (= cap-ribbon with ship's name on it), Death-tally (= identity disc). The word comes from the tally-stick used in checking cargo in the old days (hence the phrase 'tallying the cargo'); these were wooden batons on which the checkers cut notches - just as early cricket scorers kept their sides' scores (whence the expression 'notching the runs').
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   tally
   [v] - keep score, as in games
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   tally
   to measure and record length of pipe of tubing
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   tally
   a mark or score, as in recording results by the conventional five-barred gate method, i. e. by marking every fifth score across the previous four Category: Standards, measures and testing • the physical unit which carries the entry Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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   Tally
   Definition (keystage 2) A simple way of counting things; we make one vertical mark for each thing until we get to the fifth thing, when we make a horizontal mark through the first four marks. After that we start a new group of vertical marks, and repeat the process. This makes it quite easy to count the groups of five and see how many things we hav ...
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   Tally
   Tal'ly noun ; plural Tallies . [ Middle English taile , taille , French taille a cutting, cut tally, from tailler to cut, but influenced probably by taillé , past participle of tailler . See Tailor , and confer Tail a limitation, Taille , Tallage .] 1. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or sc ...
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   Tally
   Tal'ly transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Tallied ; present participle & verbal noun Tallying .] [ Confer French tialler to cut. See Tally , noun ] 1. To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit. « They are not so well ta ...
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   Tally
   Tal'ly intransitive verb 1. To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match. « I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel.» Addison. « Your idea . . . tallies exactly with mine.» Walpole. 2. To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game. Tally on (Nautical) , to man a rope fo ...
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    Tally
    Tal'ly adverb [ See Tall , adjective ] Stoutly; with spirit. [ Obsolete] Beau. & Fl.
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    tally
    Origin: OE. Taile, taille, F. Taille a cutting, cut tally, fr. Tailler to cut, but influenced probably by taille, p.p. Of tailler. See Tailor, and cf. Tail a limitation, Taille, Tallage. ... 1. 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 correspondin ...
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    tally
    verb keep score, as in games
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    Tally
    `Tally` may refer to: *Thomas L. Tally *a tally stick, a pre-modern type of memory aid *tally marks *tally (voting) *tally (cap) *tally (lace)
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    Tally
    • (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.) One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate. • (n.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard. • (n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to ...
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    tally
    tally, tallying, tallied 1. An account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, etc. 2. Also called 'a tally stick' or a stick of wood with notches cut to indicate the amount of a debt or payment, often split lengthwise across the notches, the debtor retaining one piece and the creditor the other. 3. Anything on which a score or an account is...
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    tally
    To count or keep score. In the past this was often done by making marks on a stick; the word comes from the Latin talea meaning 'one who cuts,' which is also the root of 'tailor.' The oldest known tally stick is thought to be the Lebombo bone dating back about 37,000 years. Until around 1828 British...
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