different between assent vs tally

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: ascent

Etymology

From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb).

Verb

assent (third-person singular simple present assents, present participle assenting, simple past and past participle assented)

1. (intransitive) To agree; to give approval.
   • 2012, Spectral Mortuary, Lapidated

     To assent to the words
     Of medieval law
     To pay a corporal price
     To death, by lapidation

2. (intransitive) To admit a thing as true.

   • And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

Synonyms

• (give approval): consent; See also Thesaurus:assent
• (admit a thing as true): affirm, allow, astipulate, aver, soothe, stipulate

Related terms

Translations

Noun

assent (countable and uncountable, plural assents)

1. agreement; act of agreeing

   I will give this act my assent.

Synonyms

• approval, consent, sanction; See also Thesaurus:approval

Related terms

• assentor

Translations

Anagrams

• antses, sanest, snaste, stanes, steans

Latin

Verb

assent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of ass?

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of tallyho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæli/
• Hyphenation: tal?ly
• Rhymes: -æli

Interjection

tally

1. (radio, aviation) Target sighted.

   (Air Traffic Control): Speedbird 123, New York, traffic at two o’clock, seven miles, a Boeing 737, west-bound, at 4000 feet.

   (Pilot): New York, Speedbird 123, tally.

Usage notes

In aviation radio usage, more common than original tallyho. In civilian aviation usage, the official term for “traffic sighted” is “traffic in sight”.

Synonyms

• (target sighted): tallyho

Etymology 2

From Middle English talie, from Anglo-Norman tallie and Old French taille (“notch in a piece of wood signifying a debt”), from Medieval Latin tallia, from Latin talea (“a cutting, rod, stick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæli/
• Hyphenation: tal?ly
• Rhymes: -æli

Noun

tally (plural tallies)

1. Abbreviation of tally stick.
2. (by extension) One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
3. (by extension) Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate.
4. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
   • c. 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, Act V, scene 1:

     So paired, so suited in their minds and persons,

     That they were framed the tallies for each other.

5. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
6. A tally shop.
7. A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
8. (informal, regional, dated) A state of cohabitation, living with another individual in an intimate relationship outside of marriage.

Translations

See also

• Five-bar gate tally

Etymology 3

From Middle English talien, from the noun (see above). Also from Medieval Latin taliare

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæli/
• Hyphenation: tal?ly
• Rhymes: -æli

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To count something.
2. (transitive) To record something by making marks.
3. (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
4. (intransitive) To keep score.
5. (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
6. (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.

Synonyms

• (count something): enumerate, number; see also Thesaurus:count

Derived terms

• tally up

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English tally, talliche, equivalent to tall +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?li/, /?t?l.li/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?t?li/, /?t?l.li/
• Hyphenation: tally

Adverb

tally (comparative more tally, superlative most tally)

1. (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.
   • c. 1612, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain, Act II, scene ii:

     And you, Lodovick, / That stand so tally on your reputation, / You shall be he shall speak it.

Further reading

• tally in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• tally at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• talliche, tawly

Etymology

tal (“adj”) +? -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tali?/

Adverb

tally

1. properly, suitably, becomingly

Descendants

• English: tally (obsolete)
• Yola: taullee

References

• “tall?, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.