Other forms: tallied, tallying, tallies
A tally is a running count kept with marks. Keep a tally, the tally so far, a tally of votes.
The classic method is four vertical strokes with a fifth struck across them, which groups the count in fives and is used worldwide. As a verb, to tally means to count up, and also to agree: the figures do not tally, meaning they do not match. Note tally chart, which is standard in primary school maths; and that tally comes from a stick notched to record a debt.
1nountallyA running count kept with marks.
“She kept a tally of the cars going past by drawing lines on a piece of paper.”
2verbmatchTo match or agree.
“The suspect's story didn't tally with what the witnesses said.”
tally is a running count.
a clipping of tallyho.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Numbers & Measurement