tally

noun (plural tallies)

• 1a current score or amount:that takes his tally to 10 goals in 10 games
• a record of a score or amount:I kept a tally of David’s debt on a note above my desk
• a particular number taken as a group or unit to facilitate counting.
• a mark registering a tally.
• an account kept by means of a tally.

• 2 (also tally stick) historical a piece of wood scored across with notches for the items of an account and then split into halves, each party keeping one.

• 3 archaic a counterpart or duplicate of something: the key is so cut as to form a tally with the interior machinery

• 4a label giving information about a plant or tree.

verb (tallies, tallying, tallied)

• 1 [no object] agree or correspond:their signatures should tally with their names on the register their books never tallied

• 2 [with object] calculate the total number of:the votes were being tallied with abacuses