• IPA: /ˈtæli/

1. (radio, aviation) 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.

• (target sighted) tallyho

From Middle English talie, from Anglo-Norman tallie and Old French taille, from Medieval Latin tallia, from Latin talea.

• IPA: /ˈtæli/

tally (plural tallies)

1. Abbreviation of tally stick
2. (by extension) One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
3. (by extension) Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate.
4. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
   • c. 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, Act V, scene 1:

     So paired, so suited in their minds and persons,
     That they were framed the tallies for each other.

5. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
6. A tally shop.
7. A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
8. (informal, regional, dated) A state of cohabitation, living with another individual in an intimate relationship outside of marriage.
9. (UK, obsolete) Five dozen bunches of turnips.
   • , London Labour and the London Poor

     Then turnips isn't such good sale yet, but they may be soon, for winter's best for them. […] I buy turnips by the 'tally.' A tally's five dozen bunches.

• Russian: счёт

• French: marque
• German: Strichliste, Zähler
• Portuguese: contador
• Russian: счёт
• Spanish: marca

• German: Kerbe, Strich, Haken
• Russian: зарубка

From Middle English talien, from the noun (see above).

• IPA: /ˈtæli/

tally (tallies, present participle tallying; simple past and past participle tallied)

1. (transitive) To count something.
2. (transitive) To mathematically calculate a numeric result.
3. (transitive) To record something by making marks.
4. (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
5. (intransitive) To keep score.
6. (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
7. (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.

• (count something) enumerate, number; see also Thesaurus:count

• German: zählen
• Italian: conteggiare
• Portuguese: contar, somar
• Russian: считать
• Spanish: contar

• German: abhaken, markieren
• Portuguese: marcar
• Russian: отмечать
• Spanish: tarjar

• German: einspielen, einstimmen, aufeinander abstimmen

• German: den Spielstand beihalten
• Portuguese: marcar

• German: übereinstimmen, korrespondieren

From Middle English tally, talliche, equivalent to tall + -ly.

• IPA: /ˈtɔli/, /ˈtɔl.li/
• (cot-caught) IPA: /ˈtɑli/, /ˈtɑl.li/

tally

1. (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.
   • c. 1612, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain, Act II, scene ii:

     And you, Lodovick, / That stand so tally on your reputation, / You shall be he shall speak it.

1. A male given name
2. A female given name