count
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kount
ipa: /kaʊnt/
ipa: /kuːnt/
rhymes: -aʊnt
Forms: form: counts
Etymology: From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.
Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax).
Senses: examples: text: Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
glosses: The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
glosses: A countdown.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2025 June 19, “Student who raped 10 women jailed for 24 years”, in bbc.com:
topics: law
glosses: A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint.
examples: text: He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
examples: text: When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16:
glosses: An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
examples: text: That count deserves a punishment.
glosses: Cunt (the taboo swear word)
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: ahead in the count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: behind in the count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: bit-count integrity
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: blood count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: body count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: Borda count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: cell count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: complete blood count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: countback
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: count circle
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: count form
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: countless
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: countline
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: count noun
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: count plural
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: countrate
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: countwheel
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: countwise
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: day count convention
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: down for the count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: fastball count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: full blood count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: full count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: hard count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: head count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: headcount
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: hitter's count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: kilocount
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: king-count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: least count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: lose count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: miscount
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: multicount
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: no-count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: non-count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: nose count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: notch count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: on all counts
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: on the count of
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: out for the count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: photocount
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: pitch count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: pitcher's count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: plate count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: plycount
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: pollen count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: polycount
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: postcount
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: post count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: pseudocount
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: read count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: soft count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: sperm count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: subcount
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: take the count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: thread count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: undercount
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: viewcount
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: winter count
sense: Terms derived from count (noun)
word: word count