[
US
/ˈtæɫi/
]
[ UK /tˈæli/ ]
[ UK /tˈæli/ ]
VERB
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be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
The handwriting checks with the signature on the check
The two stories don't agree in many details
The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun - keep score, as in games
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determine the sum of
Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town -
gain points in a game
The home team scored many times
He hit a home run
He hit .300 in the past season
NOUN
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a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
their first tally came in the 3rd inning
the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th -
the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
the counting continued for several hours - a bill for an amount due
How To Use tally In A Sentence
- In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
- The magnificent 18 th-century mansion is set in private landscaped grounds at the edge of the town, opposite the golf links and West Sands but totally screened by trees, woods and 18-foot high lodge gates.
- Silence is the rule for our heroes, and that means a bit of extra claustrophobia to scenes that would otherwise be totally generic.
- By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
- I was totally expecting you to say that you read a section looking for the miscut part and got yourself hideously freaked out for the bike ride home. Cooperative Blog » Blog Archive » Stephen King
- Black color is sentimentally bad but, every black board makes the students life bright. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- In ways often too subtle to be conscious but sometimes overt, I believe, blacks remain devalued in American schools, where, for example, a recent national survey shows that through high school they are still more than twice as likely as white children to receive corporal punishment, be suspended from school, or be labeled mentally retarded. Race and the Schooling of Black Americans
- Male speaker It's an attack on them mentally.
- The severity, universality, complexity of peasant burden overweight, is to determined fundamentally that solving peasant burden overweight needs long period of time and arduousness of problem.
- To say how prisoners spend their time on leave is up to individuals is totally unacceptable. The Sun
