different between invoice vs tally
invoice
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French envois pl, plural of envoi, from the verb envoyer (“to send”). See also envoy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n?v??s/
Noun
invoice (plural invoices)
- A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
- The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
- Synonym: shipment
- (generally of a vehicle) The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold.
Related terms
- (price a seller pays): sticker price, list price
Translations
Verb
invoice (third-person singular simple present invoices, present participle invoicing, simple past and past participle invoiced)
- (transitive) To bill; to issue an invoice to.
- I will invoice my supplier tomorrow.
- (transitive) To make an invoice for (goods or services).
Translations
invoice From the web:
- what invoice number should i start with
- what invoice mean
- what invoice number means
- what invoice price on a car
- what invoice number to start with
- what invoiced mean on order
- what invoice number
- what invoice should include
tally
English
Etymology 1
Clipping of tallyho.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tæli/
- Hyphenation: tal?ly
- Rhymes: -æli
Interjection
tally
- (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)
- Abbreviation of tally stick.
- (by extension) One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
- (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.
- 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.
- c. 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, Act V, scene 1:
- A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
- A tally shop.
- A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
- (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)
- (transitive) To count something.
- (transitive) To record something by making marks.
- (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
- (intransitive) To keep score.
- (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
- (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)
- (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.
- c. 1612, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain, Act II, scene ii:
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
- properly, suitably, becomingly
Descendants
- English: tally (obsolete)
- Yola: taullee
References
- “tall?, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
tally From the web:
- what tally means
- what tally ho means
- what tally hall song are you
- what tally erp 9
- what tally marks
- what tally in computer
- what's tally course
- what's tally software
you may also like
- invoice vs tally
- handsome vs super
- marshalling vs pageantry
- pillage vs pilferings
- tale vs romance
- planning vs dealing
- cool vs disinterested
- intrepidity vs pluck
- distract vs enchant
- striking vs stupefying
- rest vs deposit
- gloominess vs grimness
- sparing vs liberal
- plod vs struggle
- fairytale vs parable
- outcome vs profit
- nimble vs cunning
- engaging vs natural
- passive vs numb
- injurious vs sinister