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tallied

tallied is the simple past and past participle of tally.

Meaning of tally

Verb

tally (third-person singular simple present tallies, present participle tallying, simple past and past participle tallied)

  1. (transitive) To count something.
    Synonyms:
    enumerate
  2. (transitive) To mathematically calculate a numeric result.
  3. (transitive) To record something by making marks.
    • The counter tallied the languages people were conversing in while walking along a set route that wove back and forth through the chairs and tables.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4
  4. (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
    • I am sorry to find they are not so well tallied to the present juncture as I could wish.1822, Alexander Pope, quoting Jonathon Swift, “Letter IV. From Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. August 30, 1716”, in The Works of Alexander Pope, volume 9, with notes by Joseph Warton, page 11
  5. (intransitive) To keep score.
  6. (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
    • In some I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel, and in others a little wall of bricks1767 [1705], Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy &c. In the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, page 138

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Questions about tallied

What is tallied the simple past and past participle of?
Tallied is the simple past and past participle of tally.

Words near tallied in the dictionary

  1. talliator
  2. talliators
  3. tallica
  4. tallicas
  5. tallie
  6. tallied
  7. tallied on
  8. tallied up
  9. tallier
  10. talliers
  11. tallies

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