Pronunciations (2)
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/kaʊnt/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/kuːnt/
Pronunciation notes
- Northumbria
Verb
To recite numbers in sequence.
Usage- Intransitive
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Can you count to a hundred?
The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.
To determine the number of (objects in a group).
Usage- Transitive
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Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.
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The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,[…]
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
To amount to, to number in total.
Usage- Intransitive
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They counted thirty, crowded in a space Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]
To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something).
Usage- Figurative
- Intransitive
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Your views don’t count here.
It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.
To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
Usage- Figurative
- Intransitive
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Apples count as a type of fruit.
This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
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Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” he asked.¶“Too many,” Kirk quipped. The crowd clapped and cheered.¶Five, the audience member claimed. “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?” the man continued. Kirk leaned forward and picked up his mic before setting back into an upright position. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” he said.¶A loud “pop” suddenly rang out.¶Kirk lurched back and to the left. Blood splashed from his neck onto his white shirt.
To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
Usage- Transitive
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He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.
I count you as more than a friend.
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The entertainment we haue had of him, Is far from villanie or ſeruitude, And might in noble mindes be counted princely.
To reckon in, to include in consideration.
Usage- Transitive
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They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.
To take account or note (of), to care (for).
Usage- Intransitive
- Obsolete
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[…]to make her faire, that no man counts of her beauty.
To recount, to tell.
Usage- Obsolete
- Transitive
To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
Usage- UK usage
- Intransitive
- Obsolete
Noun
The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
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Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
Breathe out slowly through your mouth for a count of five.
The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
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By the official count, there are something like thirteen hundred species of birds in the Amazon, but Cohn-Haft thinks there are actually a good many more, because people have relied too much on features like size and plumage and not paid enough attention to sound.
A countdown.
A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint.
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Zou, who was living in Elephant and Castle, south-east London, was convicted of 11 counts of rape, with two of the offences relating to one victim. He was also convicted of three counts of voyeurism, 10 of possession of an extreme pornographic image, one of false imprisonment and three of possession of a controlled drug with intent to commit a sexual offence.
Anthony Williams (32), of Langford Road, Peterborough, was arrested and charged with ten counts of attempted murder, one count of ABH (Actual Bodily Harm), and one count of possession of a bladed article.
The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
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He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded.
An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
Usage- Obsolete
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When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count.
Cunt (the taboo swear word)
Usage- Slang
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That count deserves a punishment.
Adjective
Countable.
Usage- not-comparable
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For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.
Used to show the amount of like items in a package.
Usage- not-comparable
Noun
The male ruler of a county.
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After his marriage, John made a progress through the country with his beautiful Elizabeth, and they purchased towns and villages and lands until he became master of nearly half Rügen, and a very considerable count in the country. His father, old James Dietrich, was made a noble-man, and his brothers and sisters gentlemen and ladies - for what cannot money do?
A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
Noun
the total number counted
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a blood count
the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
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the counting continued for several hours
a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl
Verb
determine the number or amount of
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Can you count the books on your shelf?
Count your change
have weight; have import, carry weight
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It does not matter much
show consideration for; take into account
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You must consider her age
The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient
name or recite the numbers in ascending order
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The toddler could count to 100
put into a group
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The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members
include as if by counting
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I can count my colleagues in the opposition
have a certain value or carry a certain weight
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each answer counts as three points
have faith or confidence in
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you can count on me to help you any time
Look to your friends for support
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You can bet on that!
Depend on your family in times of crisis
take account of
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You have to reckon with our opponents
Count on the monsoon