tallying [
'tælɪ]
Tally \Tal"ly\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tallied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tallying}.] [Cf. F. tialler to cut. See {Tally}, n.]
1. To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to
correspond; to cause to fit or suit.
They are not so well tallied to the present
juncture. --Pope.
2. (Naut.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard
or outboard. --W. C. Russell.
{Tally on} (Naut.), to dovetail together.
- Vote tallying began Monday for ballots cast Saturday in Assembly elections in the northeastern states of Nagaland and Mizoram, where ballot boxes from remote interior villages had to be collected by helicopter.
- The workers' demands include wage increases. Officials in Warsaw, meanwhile, began tallying votes from Sunday's free elections for local councils, a vote that aroused the interest of less than half the electorate.
- Official figures aren't available yet, but tallying by the Independence Evening Post, a national daily newspaper, said the DPP garnered 22% of the votes, compared with 16.8% for opposition candidates in 1983.
- The hospital where the boy and his sister are recovering is tallying toys and phone calls, and a fund has been set up for Julio.