tally

== English == === Etymology 1 === Clipping of tallyho. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈtæli/ Hyphenation: tal‧ly Rhymes: -æli ==== Interjection ==== tally (radio, aviation) Target sighted. (Air Traffic Control): Speedbird 123, New York, traffic at two o’clock, seven miles, a Boeing 737, west-bound, at 4000 feet. (Pilot): New York, Speedbird 123, tally. ===== Usage notes ===== In aviation radio usage, more common than original tallyho. In civilian aviation usage, the official term for “traffic sighted” is “traffic in sight”. ===== Synonyms ===== (target sighted): tallyho === Etymology 2 === From Middle English talie, from Anglo-Norman tallie and Old French taille (“notch in a piece of wood signifying a debt”), from Medieval Latin tallia, from Latin talea (“a cutting, rod, stick”). Doublet of taille and talea. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈtæli/ Hyphenation: tal‧ly Rhymes: -æli ==== Noun ==== tally (plural tallies) Abbreviation of tally stick. (by extension) One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept. (by extension) Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate. (archaic) One thing made to suit another; a counterpart or match. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game. A tally shop. A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong. (informal, regional, dated) A state of cohabitation, living with another individual in an intimate relationship outside of marriage. (UK, obsolete) Five dozen bunches of turnips. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== 𝍸 === Etymology 3 === From Middle English talien, from the noun (see above). Also from Medieval Latin taliare. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈtæli/ Hyphenation: tal‧ly Rhymes: -æli ==== Verb ==== tally (third-person singular simple present tallies, present participle tallying, simple past and past participle tallied) (transitive) To count something. (transitive) To mathematically calculate a numeric result. (transitive) To record something by making marks. (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other. (intransitive) To keep score. (intransitive) To correspond or agree. [with with] (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard. ===== Synonyms ===== (count something): enumerate, number; see also Thesaurus:count ===== Derived terms ===== tally on tally up ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 4 === From Middle English tally, talliche, equivalent to tall +‎ -ly. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈtɔli/, /ˈtɔl.li/ (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈtɑli/, /ˈtɑl.li/ Hyphenation: tally ==== Adverb ==== tally (comparative more tally, superlative most tally) (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit. === Further reading === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tally”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “tally”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === References === == Middle English == === Alternative forms === talliche tawly (Northern) === Etymology === tal (adjective) +‎ -ly (adverbial) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtaliː/ === Adverb === tally properly, suitably, becomingly ==== Descendants ==== English: tally (obsolete) Yola: taullee ==== References ==== “tallī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.