Tallied vs Tallies - What's the difference?
tallied | tallies |
(tally)
(label) Used as a mild intensifier: very (almost exclusively used by the upper classes).
Target sighted.
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
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, date=September 2
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, title=Bulgaria 0-3 England
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One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
* Dryden
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.
To count something.
To record something by making marks.
To make things correspond or agree with each other.
* Alexander Pope
To keep score.
To correspond or agree.
* Addison
* Walpole
(nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
As verbs the difference between tallied and tallies
is that tallied is past tense of tally while tallies is third-person singular of tally.As a noun tallies is
plural of lang=en.tallied
English
Verb
(head)tally
English
Etymology 1
.Adjective
(en adjective)- Up and over to victory! Tally ho!
Interjection
(en interjection)- ''(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
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- They were framed the tallies for each other.
Verb
- They are not so well tallied to the present juncture.
- I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel.
- Your idea tallies exactly with mine.