<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>plural tallies.</li><li>an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.</li><li>Synonyms: enumeration, count, inventory.</li><li>Also called tally stick: a stick of wood with notches cut to indicate the amount of a debt or payment, often split lengthwise across the notches, the debtor retaining one piece and the creditor the other.</li><li>anything on which a score or account is kept.</li><li>a notch or mark made on or in a tally.</li><li>a number or group of items recorded.</li><li>a mark made to register a certain number of items, as four consecutive vertical lines with a diagonal line through them to indicate a group of five.</li><li>a number of objects serving as a unit of computation.</li><li>a ticket, label, or mark used as a means of identification, classification, etc.</li><li>anything corresponding to another thing as a counterpart or duplicate.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>tallied, tallying.</li><li>to mark or enter on a tally; register; record.</li><li>Synonyms: list, enroll.</li><li>to count or reckon up.</li><li>Synonyms: calculate, enumerate.</li><li>to furnish with a tally or identifying label.</li><li>to cause to correspond or agree.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>tallied, tallying.</li><li>to correspond, as one part of a tally with the other; accord or agree: Does his story tally with hers?</li><li>to score a point or make a goal, as in a game.</li></ul>