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count¹ Definition

count (ko̵unt)

transitive verb

  1. to name numbers in regular order to (a certain number) to count five
  2. to add up, one by one, by units or groups, so as to get a total count the money
  3. to check by numbering off; inventory
  4. to take account of; include six, counting me
  5. to believe or take to be; consider to count oneself fortunate

Etymology: ME counten < OFr conter < L computare, compute

intransitive verb

  1. to name numbers or add up items in order
  2. to be taken into account; have importance, value, etc. his opinions don't count
  3. to have a specified value: often with for a touchdown counts for six points
  4. to rely or depend (on or upon)
  5. Music to keep time by counting the beats

noun

  1. the act of counting; adding or numbering
  2. the number reached by counting; total number or quantity
  3. a reckoning or accounting
  4. Archaic regard; notice; account
  5. Baseball the number of balls and strikes that have been pitched to the batter
  6. Bowling the number of pins knocked down by the first ball in a frame following a frame in which a spare or strike is scored: added to the score of the spare or strike of the preceding frame
  7. Boxing the counting of seconds up to ten, during which a boxer who has been knocked down must rise or lose the match
  8. Law any of the charges in an indictment, each of which gives a reason and is sufficient for prosecution

count¹ Related Forms
count′·able adjective
count¹ Idioms

count in

☆

to include

count off

to separate into equal divisions by counting

count out

  1. ☆ to disregard; omit
  2. Boxing to declare (a boxer) defeated when he has remained down for a count of ten
count² Definition

count (ko̵unt)

noun

a nobleman in European countries, having a rank equivalent to that of an English earl

Etymology: ME counte < OFr conte < L comes (gen. comitis), companion < com-, with + ire, to go: see exit

count Synonyms

count

n.

  1. Man of rank

    nobleman, peer, grandee, earl; see aristocrat, lord 2.

  2. Total

    number, sum, tally; see calculation 1, whole.

count Synonyms

count

v.

compute, reckon, enumerate, number, add up, total, sum, figure, count off, count up, cipher, calculate, include, take account of, foot up, tally, score, count noses*; see also add 1, calculate 1, total 1.

count Law Definition

n

  1. In a civil action, the statement of a distinct cause of action in a complaint or similar pleading.
  2. In a criminal action, the distinct allegation in an indictment or information that the defendant committed a crime.
multiple counts
Two or more distinct causes of action or allegations that the defendant committed an offense contained in a complaint, indictment, information, or similar pleading.
separate count
Any of the individual causes of action or allegations that the defendant committed an offense in a complaint, indictment, information, or similar pleading.
count Usage Examples

Object

  • crow: Gorgeous New Jersey Americana making the link between The Stones and Counting Crows; highly recommended!
  • calorie: Here are those: smoking, counting calories, reading horoscopes.
  • vote: Analyzing responses is never simply a matter of counting votes.
  • sheep: Dickens or Bronte would help you sleep, Anything lighter would meet with disdain As the're more effective than counting sheep.
  • number: How do I count the number of species present in separate grid squares?

Converse of object

  • lose: I think we all lost count of the number of lobsters we saw.
  • transect: Diagrams show typical flight periods and results of transect counts for most species.

Noun used with modifier

  • platelet: Diagnostic features are a normal platelet count with a prolonged bleeding time.
  • sperm: He was subsequently told by the Hospital, that his sperm counts were negative.
  • claimant: The claimant count jobless rate, for example, remains at just 2.9 % .
  • pollen: Pollen counts are taken during the summer months to warn hay fever sufferers of high levels.
  • blood: He's likely to be in for around 3 weeks depending on how quickly his white blood count can recover.
  • stroke: Their time or speed are less important than their stroke count.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • on: A favorable wind from government will be a boon, but cannot be counted on.

Adjective modifier

  • total: Figures as high as 30 % of the total passenger count on some off-peak services have been reported.
  • white: He's likely to be in for around 3 weeks depending on how quickly his white blood count can recover.
  • low: Age was the only significant factor by multivariate analyzes, with older patients having lower platelet counts at 1 year posttreatment.

Modifies a noun

  • rate: For the latter sample the ` count rate ` equals -1.0.

Adjective complement

  • 19: Another technique of scanning involves counting 19 in boxes along with rows / columns to identify missing numerals.

Preposition: for

  • nothing: Kings count for nothing now in questions of war.
count Quotes

Cannes†is10,000 people looking for10 people who really count.

—Anonymous

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kingsönor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. Andöwhich is moreöyou'll be a Man, my son!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to count.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

The English are all right. They're quiet, they're slow, they count things carefully, they hesitateöand I'm switching to their track.

—Walesa, Lech

You won the elections. But I won the count.

—Martin Ross

Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris. So long as you are fortunate, you will count many

—Ovid full name Publius OvidiusNaso   4317