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Meaning of tally

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  tally
      n 1: a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four
           bases safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of
           the 9th"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning" [syn:
           {run}, {tally}]
      2: a bill for an amount due [syn: {reckoning}, {tally}]
      3: the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order;
         "the counting continued for several hours" [syn: {count},
         {counting}, {numeration}, {enumeration}, {reckoning},
         {tally}]
      v 1: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their
           characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many
           details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the
           check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on
           the gun" [syn: {match}, {fit}, {correspond}, {check},
           {jibe}, {gibe}, {tally}, {agree}] [ant: {disaccord},
           {disagree}, {discord}]
      2: gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He
         hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" [syn:
         {score}, {hit}, {tally}, {rack up}]
      3: keep score, as in games [syn: {tally}, {chalk up}]
      4: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to
         those of the neighboring town" [syn: {total}, {tot}, {tot
         up}, {sum}, {sum up}, {summate}, {tote up}, {add}, {add
         together}, {tally}, {add up}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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