tally
verb/ˈtæli/
/ˈtæli/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they tally | /ˈtæli/ /ˈtæli/ |
| he / she / it tallies | /ˈtæliz/ /ˈtæliz/ |
| past simple tallied | /ˈtælid/ /ˈtælid/ |
| past participle tallied | /ˈtælid/ /ˈtælid/ |
| -ing form tallying | /ˈtæliɪŋ/ /ˈtæliɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] tally (with something) to be the same as or to match another person’s account of something, another set of figures, etc. synonym match up (with something)
- Her report of what happened tallied exactly with the story of another witness.
- The two accounts tally precisely/closely/fairly well.
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- [transitive] tally something (up) to calculate the total number, cost, etc. of something
- When we tallied up the cost of moving, we decided against it.
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a notched tally stick): from Anglo-Norman French tallie, from Latin talea ‘twig, cutting’.
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