[ˈtali], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a current score or amount
(e.g: that takes his tally to 10 goals in 10 games)

- a piece of wood scored across with notches for the items of an account and then split into halves, each party keeping one

- a counterpart or duplicate of something
(e.g: the key is so cut as to form a tally with the interior machinery)

- a label giving information about a plant or tree


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a notched tally stick): from Anglo-Norman French tallie, from Latin talea ‘twig, cutting’. Compare with tail

[ˈtali], (Verb)

Definitions:
- agree or correspond
(e.g: their signatures should tally with their names on the register)

- calculate the total number of
(e.g: the votes were being tallied with abacuses)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a notched tally stick): from Anglo-Norman French tallie, from Latin talea ‘twig, cutting’. Compare with tail