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count

[kount]

verb (used with object)

to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.

to reckon up; calculate; compute.

to list or name the numerals up to: Close your eyes and count ten.

to include in a reckoning; take into account: There are five of us here, counting me.

to reckon to the credit of another; ascribe; impute.

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to consider or regard: He counted himself lucky to have survived the crash.

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verb (used without object)

to count the items of a collection one by one in order to determine the total: She counted three times before she was satisfied that none was missing.

to list or name numerals in order: to count to 100 by fives.

to reckon numerically.

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to have a specified numerical value.

11.

to be accounted or worth something: That first try didn't count—I was just practicing.

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12.

to have merit, importance, value, etc.; deserve consideration: Every bit of help counts.

13.

to have worth; amount (usually followed by for): Intelligence counts for something.

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noun

14.

the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation: A count of hands showed 23 in favor and 16 opposed.

15.

the number representing the result of a process of counting; the total number.

16.

an accounting.

17.

Baseball. the number of balls and strikes, usually designated in that order, that have been called on a batter during a turn at bat: a count of two balls and one strike.

18.

Law. a distinct charge or theory of action in a declaration or indictment: He was found guilty on two counts of theft.

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19.

Textiles.

a number representing the size or quality of yarn, especially the number based on the relation of weight to length of the yarn and indicating its degree of coarseness.

the number of warp and filling threads per square inch in woven material, representing the texture of the fabric.

20.

Bowling. the number of pins struck down by the first ball rolled by a bowler in the frame following a spare and included in the score for the frame in which the spare was made.

21.

Physics.

a single ionizing reaction registered by an ionization chamber, as in a Geiger counter.

the indication of the total number of ionizing reactions registered by an ionization chamber in a given period of time.

22.

Archaic. regard; notice.

23.

the count, Boxing. the calling aloud by the referee of the seconds from 1 to 10 while a downed boxer remains off his feet. Completion of the count signifies a knockout, which the referee then declares: A hard right sent the challenger down for the count. Also called the full count.

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adjective

24.

noting a number of items determined by an actual count: The box is labeled 50 count.

Verb phrases

25.

count down, to count backward, usually by ones, from a given integer to zero.

26.

count in, to include: If you're going to the beach, count me in.

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count off, (often used imperatively, as in the army) to count aloud by turns, as to arrange positions within a group of persons; divide or become divided into groups: Close up ranks and count off from the left by threes.

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count on/upon, to depend or rely on: You can always count on him to lend you money.

29.

count out,

Boxing. to declare (a boxer) a loser because of inability to stand up before the referee has counted 10 seconds.

to exclude: When it comes to mountain climbing, count me out.

to count and apportion or give out: She counted out four cookies to each child.

to disqualify (ballots) illegally in counting, in order to control the election.

Idiom

30.

count coup. coup¹ (def. 4).

Origin:
1275–1325; (v.) Middle English counten < Anglo-French c(o)unter, Old French conter < Latin computāre to compute; (noun) Middle English counte < Anglo-French c(o)unte, Old French conte < Late Latin computus calculation, reckoning, noun derivative of computāre

Related forms

half-count·ed, adjective

Example Sentences

Every beginner, in his first session of bridge, is told to count the trumps.

They drop out before the first count is taken, usually a few weeks into the semester.

Don't count on them to conjure up remedies if the rich economies flag.

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Every beginner, in his first session of bridge, is told to count the trumps.

They drop out before the first count is taken, usually a few weeks into the semester.

Don't count on them to conjure up remedies if the rich economies flag.

Students should count hours plus to the east and minus to the west on their charts.

Knowing how to count lets kindergartners do arithmetic before they learn its rules.

Smithsonian is published eleven times a year, but occasionally publishes combined issues, which count as two issues.

Two of summer's best flavors combine in a cool, creamy treat that doesn't push your calorie count.

But a strict count at a demonstration can be less influential than what networks broadcast.

In these uncertain times, it's good to know that you can still count on some things.

Whales are notoriously difficult to count at sea, and no one is certain of the true figures.

But new research reveals that it might be the candidates' faces that count.

They had to stand in front of their cell, and we'd walk by and count them.

In an essential step toward programming cells as precisely as computers, synthetic biologists have finally learned to count.

Included in this count are a small number of online courses.

But debate rages over whether such structures count as nanotech only if they are deliberately created by humans.

Count your bags as they are loaded onto airport vans.

Let us count the ways that illusions play with our hearts and minds.

Perhaps the same would count for coffee and chocolate and all that.

Internally, there are are only a couple of notable changes: the pixel count.

When it comes to voter preference, the issues count.

Things you could count, he said, you ought to count.

Species too numerous to count are disappearing too.

At present, drugs that manipulate neurochemistry count as cutting.

Humans meet this part of the definition in too many ways to count.

While potential conflicts of interest are disconcerting, they mean little if voting machines can be trusted to count accurately.

We can't count on someone else to create one for us.

Because you don't have to count on anybody, and nobody has to count on you.

We can no more catalogue every celestial body than a biologist can count every beetle.

He should count how man of us are descended from those who didn't go on the trail of tears before he speaks.

The reason for this little critters' super-high gene count comes down to its rapid rate of gene multiplication.

It is also about myriad creatures too small to see that live in numbers too large to count in ways too numerous to imagine.

It means telling black people who count on my unconditional support that they, too, can be irredeemably wrong.

What the article does say is that a correlation was seen between the ability to count and what they define as number sense.

The commissions he has accepted over the decades are scarcely enough to count on the fingers of one hand.

Count me in the former camp, although my kids aren't yet old.

Numbers count, but some countries count more than others.

They sit and listen and count both the booms and the time between them.

Hedges was able to detect and count line breaks and measure faded edges.

But statistical methods used to count tanks in the second world war may.

Read the rules and download the forms so your jumping jacks will count.

The count is so high in part due to the nature of the attacks.

Flocks of, say, starlings or herds of wildebeest do not count as real societies.

At half-mile intervals, they stop and count the birds they see or hear within a radius of a quarter mile.

Scientists often count plankton by scooping up bucketfuls of seawater and sticking it under a microscope.

It also withheld credentials from opposition representatives to try to stop them witnessing the count.

But if an object is orbiting another, much larger object that's not a star, it wouldn't count as a planet either.

His reputation deserved or not did not count in his favor due to his disturbing scientific behavior.

When you see lightning, count the time until you hear thunder.

She fell into a deep depression after her last breakup and needed an ear she could count on to be consistently supportive and.

Given the density of human bones found so far, the final body count will likely reach the hundreds, experts say.

Scientists can then count these newborn nuclides, or isotopes.

Instruct students to read, review, and count pizzeria listings.

Others don't count grossly premature or malformed babies in their statistices.

The rules are a general guideline to make sure that there are enough people to accurately count the participants.

Memo to the snakefly-don't count your larvae til they've metamorphosized.

Whether date and fig concoctions count as true candy is up for debate.

When viewed in full size, you see lots of detail and you can almost count every single tulip.

Before you begin reading the stories with students, count how many times each new word appears in each story.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

(in some European countries) a nobleman equivalent in rank to an English earl.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English counte < Anglo-French c(o)unte, Old French conte, comte < Late Latin comitem, accusative of comes honorary title of various imperial functionaries, Latin: retainer, staff member, literally, companion; see comes

noun

William (“Count”), 1904–84, U.S. jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer.

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World English Dictionary

count¹ (kaʊnt)

—vb (often foll by in) (often foll by for)
1.	to add up or check (each unit in a collection) in order to ascertain the sum; enumerate: count your change
2.	(tr) to recite numbers in ascending order up to and including
3.	to take into account or include: we must count him in
4.	not counting excluding
5.	(tr) to believe to be; consider; think; deem: count yourself lucky
6.	(intr) to recite or list numbers in ascending order either in units or groups: to count in tens
7.	(intr) to have value, importance, or influence: this picture counts as a rarity
8.	to have a certain specified value or importance: the job counts for a lot
9.	(intr) music to keep time by counting beats

—n
10.	the act of counting or reckoning
11.	the number reached by counting; sum
12.	law a paragraph in an indictment containing a distinct and separate charge
13.	physics the total number of photons or ionized particles detected by a counter
14.	keep count to keep a record of items, events, etc
15.	lose count to fail to keep an accurate record of items, events, etc
16.	boxing, wrestling the act of telling off a number of seconds by the referee, as when a boxer has been knocked down or a wrestler pinned by his opponent
17.	boxing out for the count knocked out and unable to continue after a count of ten by the referee
18.	boxing take the count to be unable to continue after a count of ten
19.	archaic notice; regard; account

[C14: from Anglo-French counter, from Old French conter, from Latin computāre to calculate, compute]

count² (kaʊnt)

—n
1.	a nobleman in any of various European countries having a rank corresponding to that of a British earl
2.	any of various officials in the late Roman Empire and under various Germanic kings in the early Middle Ages
3.	a man who has received an honour (papal knighthood) from the Pope in recognition of good deeds, achievements, etc

[C16: from Old French conte, from Late Latin comes occupant of a state office, from Latin: overseer, associate, literally: one who goes with, from com- with + īre to go]

'countship²

—n

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Word Origin & History

count

mid-14c., from O.Fr. conter "add up," but also "tell a story," from L. computare (see compute).

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count

"title of nobility," mid-13c., from O.Fr. conte, from L. comitem (nom. comes) "companion, attendant," the Roman term for a provincial governor, from com- "with" + ire "go." The Anglo-Norm. term was used to render O.E. eorl, but the word was never truly naturalized and was mainly used with reference to

foreign titles.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

count (kount)
v. count·ed, count·ing, counts
To name or list the units of a group or collection one by one in order to determine a total. n.