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setback
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?tbæk/
Etymology
From the verb phrase set back.
Noun
setback (plural setbacks)
- An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, blow (an adverse event which retards or prevents progress towards a desired outcome)
- After some initial setbacks, the expedition went safely on its way.
- (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
- (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
- Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.
- An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
- 1980, Popular Science (volume 217, number 4)
- Fuel savings from thermostat setbacks have long been accepted as fact, but little documentation existed to support it.
- 1980, Popular Science (volume 217, number 4)
- (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
- (archaic) A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
Translations
Anagrams
- backest, backets, backset
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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.
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