different between sticker vs tally

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?k?(r)/
• Rhymes: -?k?(r)

Etymology 1

stick (“to pierce, to be fastened, to adhere”) +? -er (“agent”)

Noun

sticker (plural stickers)

1. Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
   • 1918, Decisions of the Courts of Pennsylvania (Supreme, Superior and Common Pleas), in Workmen's Compensation Cases, page 158:

     […] and I said to Mr. McCauley, whatever is the matter with your neck, it is all swelled up, and he said he got it in the mill; he said he had an arm load of wool and a sticker stuck him in the neck, here (indicating the right hand side of the neck just below the jaw).

   • 1982, Fernando Alegria, Fernando Alegría, Chilean Writers in Exile: Eight Short Novels

     The prisoner fell flat on his face. They dragged him again, this time towards the grove of calafates. They lifted him up there and they threw him in the middle of the bushes. The boy screamed. Thousands of stickers pierced into his flesh.

   • 2010, Valerie Estelle Frankel, From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend, McFarland (?ISBN), page 212:

     When the prickly pear stickers pierced their paws they howled with pain, but they kept running. Sinopa, who hated the fighting, had followed her brothers. She shot a magic arrow over their heads, which pushed the brothers to safety, […]

   • 2013, Cathy McDavid, Cowboy for Keeps, Harlequin (?ISBN), page 118:

     He toppled backward, landing on a particularly large cholla and crying out as hundreds of stickers pierced his flesh.

2. One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
   • 1930, The Strand Magazine (volume 80, page 321)

     He's a sticker. He was a goer to the end in all he did — and in Rugger outstandingly […]

3. An adhesive label or decal.
4. A price tag.
5. (by extension) The listed price (also sticker price).

6. (Internet) A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
7. (informal) A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
8. (colloquial, dated) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.

   • "That's what I call a sticker for Wagg!"

9. A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation (also kiln sticker).
10. (music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
11. A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
12. (US, politics) A paster.

Derived terms

• stickery
• Tipper sticker

Translations

References

• sticker in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sticker in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “sticker” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.

Verb

sticker (third-person singular simple present stickers, present participle stickering, simple past and past participle stickered)

1. To apply one or more stickers to (something)
2. To mark as the sticker price

Etymology 2

stick (“sticky”, adjective) +? -er (“comparative”)

Adjective

sticker

1. (nonstandard, informal) comparative form of stick: more stick (stickier).

   A sticker type of glue that always stays sticky.

Anagrams

• restick, rickets, tickers

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sticker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?.k?r/
• Rhymes: -?k?r
• Hyphenation: stic?ker

Noun

sticker m (plural stickers, diminutive stickertje n)

1. sticker (adhesive decal)

   Synonym: plakplaatje

Derived terms

• bumpersticker
• prijssticker
• stickeralbum
• stickerboek
• stickervel
• waarschuwingssticker

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??tik?/

Adverb

sticker

1. about, approximately

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?tike?/, [es?t?i.ke?]

Noun

sticker m (plural stickers or sticker)

1. sticker

Swedish

Verb

sticker

1. present tense of sticka.

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.