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match | tally |

In intransitive terms the difference between match and tally

is that match is to agree, to be equal, to correspond to while tally is to correspond or agree.

In transitive terms the difference between match and tally

is that match is to equal or exceed in achievement while tally is to make things correspond or agree with each other.

In obsolete terms the difference between match and tally

is that match is to unite in marriage, to mate while tally is in a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.

As an adjective tally is

used as a mild intensifier: very (almost exclusively used by the upper classes).

As an interjection tally is

target sighted.

As an adverb tally is

in a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.

match

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) macche, from (etyl)

Noun

(es)
  • (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
    • My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
  • Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
  • * Drayton
    • many a warlike match
  • * Dryden
    • A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.
  • Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
    • He knew he had met his match .
  • * Addison
    • Government makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.
  • A marriage.
  • A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
  • * Clarendon
    • She was looked upon as the richest match of the West.
  • Suitability.
  • Equivalence; a state of correspondence. (rfex)
  • Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It were no match , your nail against his horn.
  • A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
    • The carpet and curtains are a match .
  • An agreement or compact.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thy hand upon that match .
  • * Boyle
    • Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.
  • (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
    • Derived terms
    * cage match * first class match * friendly match * grudge match * * love match * Man of the Match/man of the match * match fixing * match made in heaven * match made in hell * matchless * matchmaker * match play/matchplay * matchplayer * match point * match referee * * one-day match * overmatch * post-match * rubber match * shouting match * slanging match * steel cage match * Test match * tour match * whole shitting match * whole shooting match

    Verb

    (es)
  • (lb) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
  • :
  • :
  • (lb) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
  • :
  • *
  • *:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
  • (lb) To make a successful match or pairing.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
  • (lb) To equal or exceed in achievement.
  • :
  • (lb) To unite in marriage, to mate.
  • *1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :
  • *:Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
  • *(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • *:A senator of Rome survived, / Would not have matched his daughter with a king.
  • To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
  • :
    • Derived terms
    * match drill * matcher * matchup * matchy * * overmatch * unmatch
    See also
    * mate

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (es)
  • Device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
    • He struck a match and lit his cigarette.
    Synonyms
    * spunk
    Derived terms
    * fireplace match * matchbook, matchbox, matchlock * matchgirl * phosphorus match * quick match * safety match * slow match * strike-anywhere match * sulfur match * sulphur match
    See also
    * fire, lighter, cigarette lighter * strike (to strike a match)

    tally

    English

    Etymology 1

    .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (label) Used as a mild intensifier: very (almost exclusively used by the upper classes).
    • Up and over to victory! Tally ho!

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • 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 (m). In civilian aviation usage, the official term for “traffic sighted” is “traffic in sight”.Federal Aviation Administration: Pilot/Controller Glossary (P/CG)], [https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/pcg/T.HTM T (Traffic)

    Synonyms

    * (target sighted) (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tallie, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (tallies)
  • 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 corresponding accounts were kept.
  • Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 2 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Bulgaria 0-3 England , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Bulgaria, inevitably, raised the tempo in the opening moments of the second half and keeper Joe Hart was forced into his first meaningful action to block a deflected corner - but England were soon threatening to add to their goal tally .}}
  • One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
  • * Dryden
    • They were framed the tallies for each other.
  • 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.

    • Verb

  • To count something.
  • To record something by making marks.
  • To make things correspond or agree with each other.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • They are not so well tallied to the present juncture.
  • To keep score.
  • To correspond or agree.
  • * Addison
    • I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel.
  • * Walpole
    • Your idea tallies exactly with mine.
  • (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.

    • Etymology 3

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

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