TALLY
What does "TALLY" mean?
A running count or record of an amount, or to add up such a count.
Meanings
- A current record or count of a number of items. By midnight the vote tally still wasn't final.
- To count up or record a number of items. She tallied the receipts at the end of the shift.
- To correspond or agree (with something). His story doesn't tally with the witnesses' accounts.
Did you know?
- England recorded debts on notched wooden 'tally sticks' for centuries - and in 1834 an overstuffed furnace burning the obsolete tallies set fire to and destroyed the old Houses of Parliament.
Word origin
From Latin 'talea' meaning 'a stick or cutting', via Anglo-French 'tallie'; it named the notched 'tally stick' used to record debts before written ledgers.
Remember it
TALLY = the marks you make in groups (||||) - the double L looks like two tally strokes.
A little poem
Four upright strokes, then
a fifth laid across their backs-
the week made countable.
haiku
What it teaches
Before there were ledgers, there were notches: every count is a story we cut into something to remember.
Quick facts
What does TALLY mean?
A running count or record of an amount, or to add up such a count.
Is TALLY a valid word?
Yes — TALLY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is TALLY?
TALLY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does TALLY come from?
From Latin 'talea' meaning 'a stick or cutting', via Anglo-French 'tallie'; it named the notched 'tally stick' used to record debts before written ledgers.
What can TALLY teach us?
Before there were ledgers, there were notches: every count is a story we cut into something to remember.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.